Questions

1. Read each definition below and choose the word from the list that matches the definition.

Newly

Chance

Actual

Front-page

Data

Comfortable

Scans

 

	Important or sensational.
	Looks at closely, scrutinizes.
	Facts or figures from which conclusions can be inferred, information.
	The possibility of an occurrence.
	True or real.

 2. Answer the following questions according to the text. Try to use your own words (2 points).

a. Why was Jack Hills worried?

b. After additional analysis, how close to Earth will the asteroid come?

c. What is the name of the asteroid?

d. How was the asteroid discovered?

3. Rewrite the following sentences without changing the meaning of the original (1.5 points).

a. The chance of an actual collision is small, Marsden reported.

Marsden reported that

b. Then suddenly, the danger was gone. Barely a day later, new data and new calculations showed that the asteroid presented no threat at all.

As soon as

c. XF11 was discovered last December 6 by astronomer Jim Scotti.

Astronomer Jim Scotti

 

4. According to the text below, provide the appropriate form of the verb in parentheses.

Much more recently, in 1908, an asteroid or a chunk of a comet less than 60m across (1. rocket) ____________________ into the atmosphere and (2. explode) ____________________ about 8km above the unpopulated Tunguska region of Siberia. The blast, estimated at tens of megatons, (3. devastate) ____________________ an area of hundreds of square km, knocking down trees, starting fires and killing reindeer. If it (4. occur) ____________________ over a large city, hundreds of thousands (5. die) ____________________.

 5. Composition (120 words). Do you think there is life on other planets?

Questions for computer based test

1. Choose the right variant. This is a house … I was born.

a) who

b) which

c) where

d) what

2. Choose the right variant. Jurassic park … was directed by Steven Spielberg is my favourite film.

a) which

b) who

c) who

d) whose

3. Choose the right variant. My younger sister … husband is a pilot lives in Riga.

a) who

c) that

d) which

c) whose

4. Choose the right variant. The old woman … lives next door has 11 cats.

a) who

b) which

c) where

d) whose