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Penguin Readers Answer Key

2001: A Space Odessey UPPER INTERMEDIATE 5

Answers to book activities

1 Open answers Part 2 This slowing would also put

2 a slope 1 (a) horizon Discovery in orbit around
b steward (b) orbit Saturn so that she passed close
c odyssey (c) airlock to Japetus.
d ape (d) gravity (d) No, there was a tiny black spot
e structure (e) crater at the centre of the oval.
f leopard (f) experiment When Discovery got closer, this
(g) helmet. was a black object the same
3 a Moon-Watcher
The word formed from the 7 letters is shape as TMA-1, but a
b man-apes
anomaly. kilometre high.
c the New Rock
d the leopard 2 (b) (e) He went through the Stargate to
a negative universe star
4 1d 2b 3f 4a 5e 6c Part 3 junction and from there to a
5–6 Open answers (a) 50 years part of the real universe far
(b) 5 crew members from Earth.
7 a The stewardess on the (c) 100 days
spaceplane, to Floyd. No, it (f) The food looked like Earth food,
(d) 15 moons
isn’t true. but inside was a blue
(e) 125 metres
b Dimitri Moisewitch, a Russian substance.
(f) 35 years old
scientist, to Floyd. Yes, he This was like bread pudding
(g) 130,000 kilometres an hour
does. and Dave could eat it. It had a
(h) 22, 000,000 square kilometres
c Floyd to Diana Halvorsen. No, complicated but pleasant taste.
(i) 167 days, 5 hours, 11 minutes.
she wouldn’t. There was no food not in tins,
Part 4 bottles or packets.
8–9 Open answers (a) Mission Control had a big (g) The Star-Child came back to
10 a mission problem, not a slight one. Earth.
b telescope (b) Poole is telling Bowman that He travelled by wishing it, at
c hibernate Hal is making mistakes, not that great speed and over great
d asteroid a crew member is sick. distances.
e probe (c) Hal is at fault, not the unit. He is
f satellite telling the truth about the unit Activities after reading the book
11 a true failing though. This is worrying Open answers
b false – it is 80 times the size because it suggests he will
of Earth. make the unit fail on purpose.
c false – only four are this size (d) If Hal killed Frank deliberately,
d true as Bowman thinks, then Hal felt
12–13 Open answers no pity for Frank.
14 a radio, TV (e) Hal, who is speaking, does not
b moon think of Dave as the boss. It is
c equipment, machine true he thinks keeping the other
d air, gas three crew asleep is for the
best, but because he wants to
15–25 Open answers be boss himself. This means he
may try to keep them asleep or
Answers to Factsheet activities kill them.
(f) Hal knows for certain there has
■ Student’s Activities
been a failure in the airlock.
Activities before reading the book Because he opened them on
(a) Moon, Star, Sun, Saturn, Earth purpose to kill Dave. Therefore
(b) It was too soon to tell the world he does not think it lucky that
that humans were not alone. Dave survived.
(c) (i) It was a regular shape with Parts 5 and 6
straight edges, usually a sign of 1 Open answer
being made. 2 (a) Mission Control did not think
(ii) It had been deliberately hidden the rock builders came from
3 million years before, when Saturn because it was too
humans were not on the moon, dangerous.
so some other being must have Some said builders from
buried it. outside the solar system would
(iii) It sent a radio signal to Saturn, have to travel too far. Others
so its maker must understand said they could use hibernation,
how to transmit and receive or may be they lived much
radio waves. longer so the time didn’t matter.
(iv) The signal was to Saturn, a Different body forms
planet man had not yet suggested, like humans, some
reached. other flesh and blood system,
machines, spirit.
Activities after reading the book (b) Dave preferred sound to
Part 1 silence.
First plays and poetry, then
1 (d,i) (b, iv) (c, vi) (f, iii) (a, v) (e, ii)
music of first Sibelius,
2 (a) have become (got) smaller Tchaikovsky, Berlioz, then
(b) have become (got) shorter Beethoven and finally Bach.
(c) have been possible (c) Discovery used Saturn to
(d) have passed on knowledge decrease her speed, so that
she stayed within the solar
system.

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