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Level 3 Advanced
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Pre-reading 1
Look at the main headline. What do you think the story will be about?
1. A female alien recharges her batteries and dives from outer space to bomb another woman.
2. A woman astronaut loses her job when she is accused of attempted murder.
3. An actress playing a character like Wonder Woman is electrocuted when her rocket crashes.
Pre-reading 2
Key words
Matchthesekeywordsfromthetextwiththedenitionsbelow.
a shuttle
alleged
screening
a nappy
a tracking device
docked
stalking
1. ____________ A piece of electronic equipment that lets the police know where you are, wherever you go.
2. ____________ A piece of soft material usually worn by babies, who cant use the toilet.
3. ____________ Checking very carefully that someone is suitable for a job.
4. ____________ Watching and following someone all the time in a frightening way because you have an
excessive interest in them.
5. ____________ Said to be true, but not yet proved in court.
6. ____________ Joined to another spacecraft while still in space.
7. ____________ A space vehicle that travels to outer space and back to Earth.
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8 Thepoliceafdavitstatesthatshehad
discovered that Colleen Shipman, a US air force
captain,wasyinginfromHoustontoOrlando
that night.
4 Tosaythegrouptowhich43yearoldMrs
Nowak belongs is select is an understatement:
she is one of only 97 astronauts currently trained
andreadytoy,20ofthemwomen.NASAhas
selected a total of just 321 astronauts since the
US agency began preparing to go into space in
1959.
5 All of which makes her behaviour in the early
hoursofMondaysobafing.Themarriedmother
of three, separated from her husband, who had
been subjected to NASAs rigorous screening
process and trained for 10 years to cope with
extremestressbeforeherightintheDiscovery
space shuttle, embarked on her own private
mission.
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toyinverycrampedspacesandunderintense
stress so they have to be able to cope.
15 Mrs Nowak had a key technical role in the July
ight,inchargeofaroboticarmforrepairingthe
international space station with which it docked.
16 Beforethemission,shesaidshehadrst
become interested in space at the age of
vewhenshewatchedthemoonlandingon
television, and on visits to the Air and Space
Museum in Washington.
17 Herofcialphotographtakenbeforetheight
shows her in full astronauts suit, smiling broadly.
Yesterday a picture with a difference was running
on TV screens: Mrs Nowak as she was booked
into jail, her forehead creased, eyes pinched,
shoulders hunched and hair askew. NASA put
herona30daysuspensionandremovedher
from all shuttle mission activities.
4 General understanding
Match the beginnings and endings of these sentences:
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6 Collocations
From memory, complete the collocations below with words from the box.
intense
admission
custody
court
carefully
shuttle
screening
cramped
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active
folding
4inch
pepper
bin
latex
rubber
in
spray
blade
tubing
house
gloves
degree
liners
duty
knife
First scan the text to see if you were right. Then complete the descriptions below with one of the
compound expressions.
1. You can cut things with this, and keep it safely in your pocket: _______________.
2. You can wear these to protect your hands: _______________.
3. Akindofexiblepipethatcanholdliquidorgas:_______________.
4. People who work for the military as their main job are on _______________.
5. The cutting part of a knife, about 10 cm long: _______________.
6. Describingsomethingthatisdoneinsideacompany:_______________.
7. Large plastic bags that go inside rubbish containers: _______________.
8. Very painful liquid that can burn your face or blind you: _______________.
9. If you kill somebody because you intend to, the murder is called _______________.
8 Discussion
WhataspectsofMrsNovaksbehaviourdoyousympathizewith?
What aspects are you critical of?
What do you think would be a suitable punishment?
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