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gentle and kind people who work hard and are lucky but they do not seem to have great energy and are seldom [rebellious]. Sheep are followers, not leaders, and they cannot [arouse] any great love or devotion in their colleagues.
Part B: Expressions
The following expressions are used in the text. What do you think they mean? Do they have approximate Chinese equivalents?
Meanings:
? ? ? ?
Look before you leap = think carefully before you take any action Not looking rosy = not doing well Light-hearted = not serious
Ice-breaker = something/ some actions to make people feel more at ease with one another
? Fall into place = everything becomes alright
Now use each of the expression in sentences of your own. Your sentences should all be connected to the topic of Horoscopes.
1. Today is not a good day for all Leos, so look before you leap in everything you do.
2. Gemini, your love prospects are not looking rosy this month. Put your energy in other areas. 3. My mother believes in the stars, but my father treats the whole thing in a light-hearted manner. 4. Aries, remember to use icebreakers today especially if you have to talk to a large crowd. 5. Don?t worry about your career path as everything will fall into place by the end of this year.
UNIT THREE: Astronomy Words to note
Find the words in column A below in the text and try to work out their meanings from the contexts in which they are used. Then match each word with the correct definition in column B.
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Column A
Asteroid Astronomer Atmosphere Civilization Contaminated Equatorial Influential Inhabit Meteorite Observation Orbit Organism Planet Primitive Telescope
Column B
Mass of rock like a very small planet that goes around the Sun Someone who studies the stars and planets using scientific equipment
including telescopes
The air around the earth or another planet
The state of having developed an advanced culture and institutions Made dirty, polluted or poisonous by adding a chemical, waste, or infection
Near the equator (= the imaginary line that goes around a planet and divides it into northern and southern halves)
Able to influence the way other people think or behave
To live in a particular place
A piece of rock that has fallen from space and landed on the ground The process of watching someone or something carefully, in order to find something out
The path taken by an object moving around a larger object in space A living thing such as a person, animal, or plant, especially an extremely small living thing
A very large round object that moves around the Sun or other star
At a very simple stage of development
A piece of equipment shaped like a tube that you look through
to make distant objects look closer and larger
Understanding the text
Part A: Sequencing
The correct order of the sentences is:
1. Herschel sees ?waves of darkness? on Mars and concludes it is vegetation. 2. Schiaparelli sees ?canals? on the surface of Mars.
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3. Lowell suggests that a Martian civilisation built canals to transport water from the polar ice
caps to the equatorial regions.
4. The Mariner photographs old river beds on Mars. 5. The Viking spacecraft finds evidence of water of Mars 6. A meteorite from Mars is discovered in Antarctica. 7. Scientists find signs of fossil life inside ALH 84001.
8. Some people think the rock does not show proof that life once existed on Mars.
Part B: True or False?
Put a Tick (√) or Cross (X) against these statements to indicate whether, according to the passage, they are true or false. For the ones that are false write the correct information.
1. Mars has never been seen as a place where life might exist. [X] 2. Herschel discovered canals on Mars before Schiaparelli. [X] 3. Lowell made many people believe that life existed on Mars. [√]
4. The atmosphere on Mars is too harsh to support the higher forms of life. [√] 5. Viking discovered rivers of water on Mars. [X] 6. ALH 84001 is 3.6 billion years old. [X]
7. The meteorite from Mars landed on Earth 16 million years ago. [X] 8. Scientists discovered carbonate material in the meteorite. [√]
9. Some scientists discovered worm-like fossils in the rock which they said were a primitive
form of bacteria.[√]
10. Other scientists claimed that the bacteria evidence had entered the rock while in the laboratory
in Texas. [X]
Corrections 1. Mars has always seemed the most promising for life outside our own. 2. Hershel discovered that Mars seemed to have seasons like Earth. 5. Viking discovered that water had once covered Mars in huge oceans. 6. ALH 84001 is 4.6 billion years old.
7. The meteorite was blown into space from Mars about 16 million years ago.
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10. Scientists were concerned that the rock was contaminated while lying under the Antarctic ice.
Developing your Skills
A) Identifying Uncertain Expressions
In pairs, identify other examples of “uncertain expressions” in the text. Write your answers in the box below.
Paragraph 4 – He wrote …..where it could be used to water the crops…. Paragraph 5 – Clearly …life as we knew on Earth could exist on Mars. Paragraph 6 – (these must have been illusions)
Paragraph 7 – But Mariner?s ….seemed to show what appeared to be old riverbeds. Paragraph 8 – The evidence that life may once have existed…
We may/ It's possible that we have made the discovery of the century.
There are worm-like microfossils in the rock that appear/seem to have similar shapes to our Earth bacteria.
The rock is likely to / will probably contain evidence that there was life on Mars once. We hope to be able to come up with some more conclusive results in the next month or so.
B) Using a Time-chart to Arrange Facts into a Chronological Order
Identify when the events in the box below happened, and then rearrange them into a chronological order. Follow the example.
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b) ALH 84001, a piece of rock from Mars, was discovered by an American scientific team (1984)
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1996 (d) 1993 (f) 1976 (c) 19th (g) 1960s (e)
Century
1984 (b)
Extending your vocabulary Part A: Definitions
Word observations headline inhabited influential orbited the jury?s still out Definition 4 12 6 7 5 3 Now write a sentence of your own for each of the six words given above.
1. According to the doctors? observations, the patient should be able to leave the hospital soon.
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