I- Vocabulary:

A. Fill in the blanks with the words given (There is one extra word).

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1) We were climbing the mountain when it started to rain, so we had to stay in a ..…………

2) Scientists are trying to know what they can find…………… the solar system.

3) To analyze  your blood, the doctor should take a ………………….of it..

4) The astronaut did his mission and returned to the…………………

5) This book was very interesting. We learned a lot about space………………

6) Through………………, man can usually express his feelings.

B) Fill in the blanks with your own words.

7) A…………..is any natural body like the moon or any artificial object that orbits another object.

8) A flight into space is called a…..………….

C) Match the definition in column (A) with the words in column (B). There is one extra word in column (B). 

                                                A                                                                                 B        

9)the amount of something in a unit volume                                              a)launch

10)something  that takes people from one place to another                    b)feature

11) important part or quality of something                                                c)artificial

12)regions around the south pole                                                                 d)density                        

13)send sb or sth into space                                                                            e)vehicle

                                                                                                                              f)Antarctica

D) Choose the correct answer.

14) A space probe is a robot ……………………used to explore deep space..

a) vehicle                  b)feature       c)phase                  d)sample                                               

15) We never reach agreement with each other. Our points of view are at different…………….

a)qualities                b)eras             c)poles                   d)crators

16) A land between hills or mountains, often with a river going through it is called ………………..

a) cave                        b) crator                                c) phase                     d) valley

17) A microscope can ……………….bacteria to 1000 times their actual size.

a) minimize              b) magnify                 c)probe          d)explore

18)We have a lot of …………… resources in Iran like gold and copper.

a)individual                      b)upper                             c )mineral                   d)brief

19)Alex moved to a new apartment ………………..be able to study in a quiet place.

a)so                                 b)so as                     c)so that                     d)in order to

E. Combine the following sentences using the words in parentheses.

20)He moved to a new apartment. He wanted to near his work.(in order to)

21)He turned off the TV. He didn’t want to disturb his roommate.(so that)………………………………….

F) Put the words in the correct order to make complete sentences.

22) went – library- a- so as- she-to- the- book- to- return.)’

G. Cloze passage: Fill in the blanks the correct words. There is one extra word.

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Since …23………….. times, people have always wanted to leave their home planet and …24…………other worlds. In the later half of the 20^th…25……………, that dream became reality. The space age began with the …26…………….of the first satellite in 1957.Today space organizations sent probes instead of spacecrafts to …27………… the cost of exploration.

H. Reading comprehension:

. Read the following short passages and choose the correct answer.

32)The only things early people could see were the phases of the moon and some of the moon’s larger features. According to this sentence, early people …………………………………………….

 a)could observe space in great details                          b)didn’t know anything about space

c)had a lot of information about the planets and stars

d) had some information about the moon’s observable qualities.

33) If we live on the moon in the future, we can take the required oxygen from……………………………….

a)some of the moon’s rocks                              c)flat places called seas

b)the mines and the valleys                                d)the rivers on the moon