READING APTIS

TASK 1: Choose one word (A, B, or C) for each space.

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your email. It is great (1) _________ hear about your holiday plans.

Our school will (2) __________ one week off next week. If I stay (3) ______ Phuket, I
will spend most (4) _________ the week down the beach with my friends. I might (5)
__________ skateboarding at my local park or go to (6) ___________ new wakeboard
park. If it rains, I will stay (7) _____________ home and play computers games (8)
__________ my friends or watch TV.

In July, my dad might send me to (9) __________ summer school in England. If I go, I
will let you know. We might be able to meet (10) _________ in London.

Write back to me soon.

John

(1) a) at b) to c) about
(2) a) have b) do c) make
(3) a) on b) at c) in
(4) a) of b) off c) about
(5) a) play b) do c) go
(6) a) the b) these c) those
(7) a) in b) on c) at
(8) a) which b) with c) who
(9) a) an b) a c) the
(10) a) on b) each c) up
TASK 2: Order the sentences below to make a story.

a) He went to study at Cambridge University, but it closed down.

b) He discovered that white light is made up of all the colours of the rainbow.
c) Isaac Newton was born in England in 1643.
d) He died in 1728 aged 85.
e) He continued studying and experimenting at home.
f) He formed the theory of gravity in 1687.
g) He also made a very important discovery called his “Three Laws of Motion”
h) When he was a boy, he made lots of brilliant inventions.

TASK 3: Read the text and complete each gap with a word from the list at the
bottom of the page.

where winter exchange foreign

do survival which make
summer foreign local skills

Some teenagers want to spend their holidays doing something without their family. A
language (1) __________ is one way to be more independent and improve language (2)
_______. A British teenager spends a week or two in a (3) ______ country, staying with
a family who has a son or daughter of the same age and practises the (4)
_______language. Later the foreign teenager visits the UK to practise their English with
the British family. (5) _______ camps can be fun too. Do it 4 Real organises camps for
10–19-year-olds in the UK where young people can (6) ______ quad biking,
paintballing, film making and street dancing. There’s also a ‘Future leader’ camp for
17–19-year-olds (7) ______ activities include leadership skills as well as raft building,
archery, climbing and (8) ________ skills.
TASK 4: You are going to read a magazine article about Space travel- Match the
headings to the paragraphs.

SPACE TRAVEL

1) People have always dreamed of leaving planet Earth and exploring outer space.
Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, was launched in 1957. A human being went into
space in 1961. Nowadays, aided by huge technological advancements, astronauts spend
up to a year on orbiting space stations and robotic explorers have visited nearly all the
planets in our solar system.

2) The first challenge of space exploration was developing rockets powerful enough to
escape Earth's gravity, with guidance systems reliable enough to reach their
destinations. The next was constructing lightweight, durable satellites and maintaining
radio communication with them. Exceptionally high standards of reliability in
manufacturing and testing are necessary and a number of product innovations in daily
use are a result of attempts to solve specific logistical problems connected with life in
space.

3) In addition to overcoming the challenges of no atmosphere, extremes of temperature

and cosmic radiation, it was necessary to develop tools and techniques for space
navigation, scientific observations and experiments and coping with incidental crises as
they arose. The Apollo program, which in 1969 sent astronauts to the Moon and back,
was a huge achievement watched globally by millions on (pre-satellite) TV, although
some have subsequently claimed that the whole spectacle was an elaborate hoax.

4) Emphasis then shifted to maximizing efficiency and comfort during long-term stays
on space stations and developing reusable spacecraft. The latter resulted in the space
shuttle fleet but encountered a major setback when the U.S. spaceship Challenger
exploded shortly after take-off in 1986.

5) A great advantage of putting satellites into space is the ability to look back at Earth
(Landsat1 went into polar orbit in 1972). Large-scale photos enable observation of land
masses, oceans and weather patterns, remote regions can be mapped in detail and
electromagnetic cameras return a wealth of useful data, for example infrared images
which allow researchers to discriminate between healthy crops and diseased ones.

6) Objects such as stars emit electromagnetic radiation, different wavelengths of which

provide scientists with various types of information about the universe. Infrared
radiation reveals objects that are not hot enough to emit visible light, such as dust
clouds. X rays can indicate extremely high temperatures caused by violent collisions or
other events. Earth's atmosphere absorbs high-energy radiation in order for life to exist
on the planet, but it also hides many celestial objects from ground-based telescopes.
Satellite data has enabled the first cosmic map and discovered further evidence for the
'Big Bang' theory of the origin of the universe. The Hubble telescope, sent into orbit in
1990, provides astronomers with spectacularly detailed images of space. Satellites are
used for political reasons too: the classified 'keyhole' system is reported to be able to
read a car licence plate from 100 miles in orbit, while military uses include detection of
missiles and nuclear weapons and the development of the Global Positioning System,
extensively used for navigation.

7) The future of space exploration depends on many factors: technological evolution,

political rivalries and partnerships between nations, and public attitudes to continuing
costly space exploration. Human spaceflight in Earth's orbit and unpiloted spaceflight
within the solar system will continue. Piloted spaceflight to other planets or any flight to
other solar systems remains distant, but advances in space technology could take space
exploration into the areas of contemporary science fiction. Despite all this, the Apollo
astronauts claimed that their personal greatest discovery from the Moon voyages was an
increased spiritual awareness of planet Earth as a small but beautiful oasis of life in an
essentially empty and impersonal universe.

A) EARTH WATCHING
B) FROM SPUTNIK TO NOW
C) AN ELABORATE HOAX
D) MAN ON THE MOON
E) SPACE SHUTTLE
F) DISTANT SOLAR SYSTEMS
G) MORE SATELLITE USES
H) DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION CHALLENGES
I)THE FUTURE AND THE SPIRITUAL