Practice
CITATIONS - Find exactly within the article where it tells you.... (Place the number by the sentence or section)
1. The size of ROSAT
2. The reason why it failed
3. How much of the satellite will hit earth
4. The name of the satellite
Make an inference or prediction about what could happen that the author is not saying.
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SUMMARY - In 20 words or less, summarize the point of the article. Use complete sentences.
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German satellite to hit Earth
keep those helmets handy. while we all survived the school bus -sized satellite that crashed into the pacific last weekend, here comes another one. next up on deck, a german satellite slated to make a flaming reentry in november. behind that one, the folks at space command -- and you have to love the fact that there is a place called space command -- are tracking close to 20,000 other orbiting objects and they can't stay up there forever.
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this paragraph from a government website about solar panels,
translate it and then answer the question.
Solar Panels
Despite a global recession, the number of solar panel installations in the United States grew 30% from 2008 to 2009. A number of trends point toward continued growth of new PV installations. Solar panels are getting better and cheaper. At the same time, federal, state, and local regulations are requiring that greater amounts of energy must come from renewable sources. Incentives for solar power technology implementation are being created and regulatory barriers removed. Corporations and governments are focusing on solar power to demonstrate leadership in environmental sustainability and resource conservation.
What is the best way to revise the highlighted sentence to match the language and style of the paragraph?
a. The efficiency of solar panels is increasing, while installation costs are decreasing.
b. Solar panels are better at doing what they’re supposed to and they’re pretty affordable.
c. Research shows us that solar panels are becoming more efficient and less expensive for us to install.
d. Today’s solar panels are remarkably efficient and surprisingly inexpensive.
HOUSTON — Faced with growing criticism and lawsuits, an oil industry task force representing hundreds of companies in North Dakota pledged on Wednesday to make an all-out effort to capture almost all the natural gas that is being flared in the Bakken shale oil field by the end of the decade.
The gas being flared as a byproduct of a rush of oil drilling releases roughly six million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, roughly equivalent to three medium-sized coal plants. Because of a lack of gas-gathering lines connecting oil wells to processing plants, nearly 30 percent of the gas flowing out of the wells has been burned as waste in recent months.
The task force reported to the North Dakota Industrial Commission, the state regulator, that the industry could in two years improve the percentage of gas captured to 85 percent, from 70 percent, and to as much as 90 percent in six years.
That would still mean more waste at the Bakken field than virtually all the country’s major oil fields. But it would represent a substantial improvement because so many new wells are being drilled. Energy experts expect a 40 percent increase in the gas produced from the Bakken field by the end of 2015.
“The industry recognizes the importance of capturing this valuable resource,” said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council, in a statement...