Look through the text again and fill in the right prepositions.
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Complete the sentences with the adverbs used in the text.
Complete the chart of adjectives, nouns and verbs. The missing verbs are all in the above text.
| noun | verb |
| observe | |
| aim | |
| verification | |
| strengthen | |
| target | |
| requirement | |
| collaborate | |
| assume | |
| reference | |
| tendency | |
| suspicion | |
| transmission | |
| confirmation | |
| extraction | |
| yield | |
| announce | |
| noun | adjective |
| precision | |
| theory | |
| exciting | |
| galaxy | |
| power | |
| value | |
| triumph | |
| intelligent |
recently, ordinarily, particularly, directly, immediately, initially, really, distinctly, eventually
1. ______________________they would have verified the precise origin of the signal.
2. But lightning has ______________________struck that telescope.
3. The signal, they ____________________determined, was coming from a NASA satellite.
4. The beauty of a false alarm is that you see what really happens.
5. The media are ____________________calling you on the phone.
6. There is a signal that at least_____________ appears ______________artificial.
7. If it proves impossible to ________________translate the message, it might be possible to discover patterns.
8. Those patterns might reveal something about the nature of being,______________, how their level of intelligence compares with our own.
Grammar (1)
_________ about 6 a.m ________the horizon
_________the Green Bank observatory _______least
_________discrete frequencies ______the University of Cambridge
_________a graph _______knowing
________a separate telescope _______any case
________late afternoon _______the universe
Pre-listening (1)
Give definitions to the following words then read the explanation below:
planet
exoplanet
Solar system
star
An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet outside the Solar System. For centuries, many philosophers and scientists supposed that extrasolar planets existed, but there was no way of knowing how common they were or how similar they might be to the planets of the Solar System. The first confirmed detection of an exoplanet orbiting a star was made in 1995. Due to improved observational techniques, the rate of detections has increased rapidly since then. This means that scientists are getting closer to detect more systems that are similar to our own solar system.
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