IT CAN BE INFERRED FROM THE PASSAGE THAT _____. A. TRAVELERS HAVE T...

5. It can be inferred from the passage that _____. A. travelers have to spend more money flying westward than eastward B. there are more travelers in westward flights than in eastward ones C. westward travelers become friendlier than eastward ones D. travelers do not sleep as well in eastward flights as in westward ones PART 2. You are going to read a newspaper article about the first picture of Earth from space. Six sentences have been removed from the article. Choose from the sentences A – G the one which fits each gap 6 – 10. There is ONE extra sentence which you do not need to use. There is ONE example at the beginning (0). (1.0 point)

The First Picture of Earth from Space

by Steve Connor

The first picture of our world taken from space was published over 40 years ago, yet it still has remarkable power. They went to the moon, but ended up discovering the Earth. (0) __G__. The only exception was the astonishing sight of seeing our own planet above the horizon of the moon. It later became known as “Earthrise”, from the word sunrise. This image of a small blue world rising in the dark vastness of space over the sun-lit surface of the moon was to become a constant reminder of just how alone, and how delicate, our planet really is. (6) ____. Remarkably, it was taken over 40 years ago. The three-man crew of Apollo 8 – Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders – were the first people to circle the moon. They flew around the far side, which is not visible from Earth. They were also in effect the first people to lose contact with their own planet. They were not able to see or radio Earth for the duration of their journey behind the moon, and it was only when they had completed the orbit that they could again communicate with Mission Control Centre in Houston, Texas. Perhaps surprisingly, for the first few orbits the crew had their back to the Earth as it reappeared over the moon’s horizon and did not see the now-famous view that would change their lives. (7) ____. “Look at that picture over there! Isn’t that something?” he said, his words captured for history on the on-board tape recorder. They quickly searched for a camera – the first couple of images of “Earthrise” were in black and white, the following photos were taken in color. It is these photographs, taken approximately 350,000 kilometres from Earth, that became the favorite images of the environmental movement. (8) ____. It was a symbol of warmth and life in a bare desert of deathly coldness. Trang 3/7 “Earthrise” would change forever our view of our own planet. It summed up the fragility of a place that seems so immense to the people who live there, but so tiny when viewed from the relatively short distance of its companion in space. Following the 1968 pictures, hundreds of still images were taken of Earth during the nine Apollo flights to the moon, but in 1972 manned flights to the moon ended. Consequently, only 24 people have actually seen the whole of the Earth from space. Astronomer Carl Sagan caught the mood well when another picture of Earth was taken from space, by the Voyager 1 spacecraft in 1990. (9) ____. In this picture, the Earth appeared as a “pale blue dot” surrounded by the vastness of space, like a tiny bit of dust caught in the sunshine. “Look again at that dot,” he said a few years later. “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. (10)____. Our imagined self-importance, the false belief that we have some special position in the universe, is challenged by this point of light. Our planet is a lonely little place in endless space.” A. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. B. It was only on the fourth time round that one of the men turned and saw it. C. This time the distance was nearly six billion kilometers. D. Borman, however, has always claimed that he took it. E. It was a picture that would eventually lead to a thousand environmental movements, such was its effect on the public consciousness. F. They showed the clear contrast between the grey, empty surface of the lifeless moon and the bright blue-and-white ball of the fertile Earth. G. The crew of the US space vehicle Apollo 8 were the first people to leave Earth’s orbit and they had been prepared for just every possibility. III. USE OF ENGLISH (4.0 points) PART 1. Choose the word or phrase A, B, C or D that best completes each sentence. (0.5point)