TASK 8 DISCUSSION

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On this occasion, we will discuss or discuss assignment 6. It is hoped that friends can participate well in this discussion. Here there are 10 questions, please find the answers from the text that has been provided. 

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Red planet Renaissance

 

Just five years ago, astronomers viewed Mars as an essentially dead world. Recent

discoveries made by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft and gleaned from Martian

meteorites have changed that opinion.

The new picture of a `youthful Mars' not only confirms that geological activity

occurred abundantly in the first two thirds of Mars's history, but also that it has continued

until comparatively recently, and probably persists up to the present day. These findings

will have a dramatic effect on the human exploration of Mars, and the quest to learn

whether life ever existed there.

In the next few decades the subsurface layers of Mars will be examined in a search

for Martian microbes, either past or present. The test of whether life evolved on Mars is a

major scientific problem because an answer either way would have profound

consequences. If life did evolve on Mars, what was it like and what was its basis at the

molecular level? If life never appeared on Mars, why didn't it, and does this mean that

humanity is alone in the universe?

1. Answer the following questions using your own words.

a) What was the most recent and surprising finding about Mars?

b) What would scientists have to answer if it was proved that life had never

appeared on Mars?

2. Are the following statements true (T) or false (F)?

a) The findings were made live years ago.

b) There may be active volcanoes on Mars.

3. Find a word or a phrase in the text which, in context, is similar in meaning to:

a) considered, regarded

b) developed gradually

4. Choose a, b or c, in each question below. Only one choice is correct.

 

1. The new evidence has been obtained ...

a) while looking for Martian meteorites.

b) by a space station where there were meteorites.

c) by a space vehicle and after studying Martian meteorites.

 

2. The discovery of geological activity on Mars means that ...

a) there was life on Mars a long time ago.

b) there could be microbial life on Mars.

c) there is microbial life on Mars today.

 

3. The writer suggests that ...

a) these discoveries will be of great importance in the search for life on Mars.

b) liquid water does exist today on the surface of Mars.

c) these discoveries do not confirm geological activity

 

4. Microbes will be searched for ...

a) by taking photographs.

b) by studying meteorites.

c) by examining parts of the ground.

The Kiss ...

He had just saved her from a fire in her house, rescuing her by carrying her out of the house into her front yard, while he continued to fight the fire.
Lusi  is pregnant.
When he finally got done putting the fire out, he sat down to catch his breath and rest.
A photographer from the Charlotte, North Carolina newspaper, "The Observer," noticed her in the distance looking at the fireman.
He saw her walking straight toward the fireman and wondered what she was going to do.
As he raised his camera, Lusi  came up to the tired man who had saved her life and the lives of her babies and kissed him just as the photographer snapped this photograph.  

 

QUESTIONS

1.   Who was Lusi”

2.   Where did she live?

3.   Who did she live with?

4.   What happened to her house?

5.   Who was Luci with when the fire was put out?

6.     Who saved Luci and her family?

7.     What is the moral value of the story?