Exercises page 32

Exercise 1

1. NASA engineers at mission control in Houston D

2. The capsule splashed down in the sea E

3. The launch of Apollo 13 C

4. Earth seen from the moon A

5. Astronauts who were on board the spacecraft B

 

Exercise 2

1. Apollo 13 was flying to the moon.

2. It didn't get there because there was an explosion and the astronauts had some problems.

3. The most experienced astronauts with the NASA engineers helped the astronauts solve the problem.

4. They spent four days in the space.

 

Exercise 3

1. Reg Turnill found out there was a problem with Apollo 13 when he was getting ready for bed.

2. The workers at mission control were not expecting any problems.

3. The spacecraft lost most of its fuel because of the explosion.

4. NASA engineers immediately formed a big team to fix the problem.

5. The main problem on board was a lot of gas.

6. Where do you think this text is from? I think it's from a scientific report.

 

Exercise 4

1. small door - hatch

2. thought of/produced – came up with

3. understand – figure out

4. working – on duty

5. not be worried any more – breathe a sigh of relief

6. getting less and less – running out

7. shout happily - cheer

8. doing/taking part in - carrying out

 

Exercise 5

1. figured out

2. running out

3. came out with

4. hatch

5. on duty

6. cheering

7. breathe a sigh of relief

8. figured out

 

Exercise 6

I agreee with the first opinion because, we have to solve the problems on earth first, and then discover the space. If we don't solve our porblems, we're going to explorate the space to found a second earth.

I don't agree with the second one because I think this problem will be solved also on earth, without serching a new place where to live.

I agree with the last opinion because there are a lot of possibilities that there will be others forms of life.

 

Exercise 7

1. find a solution

2. fix a problem

3. follow events

4. get crazy

5. go home

6. raise your hand