TASK 8 One Heart Group

 

Task 8: READING MATERIALS AND TASKS

Text One: Red planet Renaissance

 

Just five years ago, astronomers viewed Mars as an essentially dead world. Recent

discoveries made by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft and gleaned from Martian

meteorites have changed that opinion.

The new picture of a `youthful Mars' not only confirms that geological activity

occurred abundantly in the first two thirds of Mars's history, but also that it has continued

until comparatively recently, and probably persists up to the present day. These findings

will have a dramatic effect on the human exploration of Mars, and the quest to learn

whether life ever existed there.

In the next few decades the subsurface layers of Mars will be examined in a search

for Martian microbes, either past or present. The test of whether life evolved on Mars is a

major scientific problem because an answer either way would have profound

consequences. If life did evolve on Mars, what was it like and what was its basis at the

molecular level? If life never appeared on Mars, why didn't it, and does this mean that

humanity is alone in the universe?

 

1. Answer the following questions using your own words.

a) What was the most recent and surprising finding about Mars?

Answer: a) New images of 'young Mars' not only confirm that geological activity

occurred abundantly in the first two-thirds of Mars' history, but also continues

until relatively recently, and probably persists to this day.

b) What would scientists have to answer if it was proved that life had never

appeared on Mars?

Answer: In the coming decades the subsurface layer of Mars will be examined in the search for mantian microbes, both past and present. The test of whether life evolved on Mars is a major scientific issue because any answer would have profound consequences.

 

2. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?

a) The findings were made live years ago.

Answer: This statement is "true", because it is possible for life to evolve so that it can be found now after all these years.

b) There may be active volcanoes on Mars.

Answer: his statement is "true", because there are recent discoveries made by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft and collected from Mars
meteorites, as well as confirming geological activity, this states that the world on Mars is still active and also states that there is an active volcano on Mars, namely Olympus Mons.

 

3. Find a word or a phrase in the text which, in context, is similar in meaning to:

a) considered, regarded

Answer: considered, is considered to be a word of opinion, and view,
b) developed gradually

Answer: developed gradually are words that are created, collected, continued and searched.

 

4. Choose a, b or c, in each question below. Only one choice is correct.

 

1. The new evidence has been obtained ...

a) while looking for Martian meteorites.

b) by a space station where there were meteorites.

c) by a space vehicle and after studying Martian meteorites.

Answer: c) by a space vehicle and after studying Martian meteorites.

 

2. The discovery of geological activity on Mars means that ...

a) there was life on Mars a long time ago.

b) there could be microbial life on Mars.

c) there is microbial life on Mars today.

Answer: a) there was life on Mars a long time ago.

 

3. The writer suggests that ...

a) these discoveries will be of great importance in the search for life on Mars.

b) liquid water does exist today on the surface of Mars.

c) these discoveries do not confirm geological activity

Answer: a) these discoveries will be of great importance in the search for life on Mars.

 

4. Microbes will be searched for ...

a) by taking photographs.

b) by studying meteorites.

c) by examining parts of the ground.

Answer: b) by studying meteorites.

 

Text TwO: The Kiss ...
He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire.
Lusi  is pregnant.
When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest.
A photographer from the Charlotte, North Carolina newspaper, "The Observer," noticed her in the distance looking at the fireman.
He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do.
As he raised his camera, Lusi  came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies and kissed him just as the photographer snapped this photograph.  

 

 

QUESTIONS

1.      Who was Lusi”

Answer: lusi is a pregnant woman

2.      Where did she live?

Answer: she lives in Charlotte, North Carolina

3.      Who did she live with?

Answer: She lives alone but she is also pregnant, but when her house caught fire there were firefighters and photographers around.

4.      What happened to her house?

Answer: His house caught fire.

5.      Who was Luci with when the fire was put out?

Answer: her son

6.      Who saved Luci and her family?

Answer: a firefighter

7.      What is the moral value of the story?

Answer: thank people in the right way