НМТ англійська Test 1

Task 1

Read the text below. For assignments (1-5) choose the correct answer (A, B, C, D).

A message to the star

Our planetEarth is one of nine planetsrevolving around the Sun, a fairly small and ordinary star, which lies in the outer areas of the Milky Way galaxy. There are about 250billion stars in our galaxy andbillions of galaxies in the universe. People have always rendered about the possibility of intelligent life forms on other planets. In recent years this has become serious scientific speculation. Some scientists believe that there must belarge numbers of stars with planets which could support living intelligent beings. Perhaps we will never know. The nearest star is 4,3 light years away. A light year is the distance covered by light travelling at about 186,000 miles a second in one year. It would take the 'fastest Earth spacecraft about 40,000 years to reach the nearest star.

For a number of years radio telescopes have been trying to. pick up signalsfrom outer space, so far without success. There are; however, millions of possible radio frequencies, and there is no reason why a completely alien civilization should not use a different type of communication, such as X-raysor even a type of wave we have not yet discovered. Suppose contacts were made with beings 300 light years away. By the time we had sent our reply

and received their response, the Earth would be 600 years older. It would be an interesting, but rather slow-moving conversation!

1 The nearest star is ....

Той же текст A message to the star

Our planetEarth is one of nine planetsrevolving around the Sun, a fairly small and ordinary star, which lies in the outer areas of the Milky Way galaxy. There are about 250billion stars in our galaxy andbillions of galaxies in the universe. People have always rendered about the possibility of intelligent life forms on other planets. In recent years this has become serious scientific speculation. Some scientists believe that there must belarge numbers of stars with planets which could support living intelligent beings. Perhaps we will never know. The nearest star is 4,3 light years away. A light year is the distance covered by light travelling at about 186,000 miles a second in one year. It would take the 'fastest Earth spacecraft about 40,000 years to reach the nearest star.

For a number of years radio telescopes have been trying to. pick up signalsfrom outer space, so far without success. There are; however, millions of possible radio frequencies, and there is no reason why a completely alien civilization should not use a different type of communication, such as X-raysor even a type of wave we have not yet discovered. Suppose contacts were made with beings 300 light years away. By the time we had sent our reply

and received their response, the Earth would be 600 years older. It would be an interesting, but rather slow-moving conversation!

2 There are about ... in our galaxy.1

Той же текст A message to the star

Our planetEarth is one of nine planetsrevolving around the Sun, a fairly small and ordinary star, which lies in the outer areas of the Milky Way galaxy. There are about 250billion stars in our galaxy andbillions of galaxies in the universe. People have always rendered about the possibility of intelligent life forms on other planets. In recent years this has become serious scientific speculation. Some scientists believe that there must belarge numbers of stars with planets which could support living intelligent beings. Perhaps we will never know. The nearest star is 4,3 light years away. A light year is the distance covered by light travelling at about 186,000 miles a second in one year. It would take the 'fastest Earth spacecraft about 40,000 years to reach the nearest star.

For a number of years radio telescopes have been trying to. pick up signalsfrom outer space, so far without success. There are; however, millions of possible radio frequencies, and there is no reason why a completely alien civilization should not use a different type of communication, such as X-raysor even a type of wave we have not yet discovered. Suppose contacts were made with beings 300 light years away. By the time we had sent our reply

and received their response, the Earth would be 600 years older. It would be an interesting, but rather slow-moving conversation!

3 A light year is the distance coveredby light travelling at about ... in one year.