A – Comprehension Test 3
What health problem is the most urgent for those astronauts who travel in zero gravity?
What disease are its symptoms like?
Where is the new technology currently being tested?
How do the signals sent to body affect the astronaut’s bones?
What is the challenge of three-year trip to Mars that Professor Clint Rubin refers to
What is the critical time of spending in the space station? Why?
What can the astronauts be preoccupied with while their skeleton is being stimulated?
How often should astronauts use the device? What is the device like?
How does this new technology work?
What is believed to be the means of accelerated ageing?
What happens to our skeleton when we age?
What things are astronauts deprived of when they are in the orbit?
How long would a round trip to Mars take? What is the human related factor that stops mankind
from travelling to Mars?
What percent of their bone mass did the crew members lose per month according to
the article published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research?
Text 11.
New South Wales Crime Commission cop on drugs charge
At home
1.Discuss the following.
a) Do you think that drug related crime is difficult to eradicate? Why? Why do police officers often get involved into drug related crimes? 3 What was the last drug related crime reported on TV? Where did it take place?
Why does it aggravate a drug related crime when police is involved?
b) What is the main idea of the scene depicted by the cartoonist? How does it interweave with the title of this news report?
2. Look at the text title and complete the sentences according to their possible occurrence in the text.
It's one of the most serious allegations of criminal corruption….
AFP officers shut off computers and…..
This is a senior police officer who was….
It's about time….
3 a). Form abstract nouns from these verbs
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conspire |
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enforce |
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investigate |
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achieve |
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involve |
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import |
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allege |
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ramify |
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3 b). Fill in the gaps with the help of expressions above:
In order to establish a _________ offence it is not necessary for the Government to prove that all of the people named in the indictment were members of the scheme.
Parent _________ is crucial to the health and well-being of a child.
A person must be intent on achieving to have his deeds classified as_____________ .
The BP Deepwater Horizon spill continues to have ___________ for pipeline safety even though neither gas nor oil pipelines had anything to do with the Gulf of Mexico disaster.
The project is mainly aimed at ____________ of technical issues, including scrutiny of equipment and its performance.
The government says the information is far fetched given the cost implications and strict guidelines in St. Lucia on the ___________ of external water resources.
The fact is that, no matter what new procedures are introduced, an _________ levied at a teacher will destroy them, their life and their career.
The National Ombudsman's mission is to assist small businesses when they experience excessive or unfair federal regulatory ____________ actions.