LISTENING TASK

SPACE JUNK
Listen and fill in the blanks.

Click here

1.     Should we be worried _______________ being hit on the ___________ by a bit of old junk from a long-forgotten space mission?

2.     There are about _______________ kilos of junk up in space.

3.     All of this _________________ is orbiting planet Earth, sometimes as fast as ______________ kilometres per hour.

4.     Most experts estimate that there are about _________________ man-made objects ________________      

5.     Some of that junk is _________ enough to do ______________ damage to a space station.

6.     We won’t know which junk is _____________________ until it comes ________________ our atmosphere and crashes _______________ Earth

7.     Every year between ___________________ and _____________

objects re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere     

8.     In _____________ an American space station ______________

out of the sky ________________ the Indian Ocean.

9.     One of its ________________ parts __________________ in the Indian Ocean and another in Australia.

10.  In ________________ an astronaut lost his _____________  ,

which reached speeds over ______________    

kilometres per hour.

Check key at the bottom.

KEY

1.      ABOUT   -   HEAD

2.      TWO MILLION

3.      RUBBISH   -   THIRTY THOUSAND

4.      NINE THOUSAND   -   UP THERE

5.      BIG   -   SERIOUS

6.      DANGEROUS   -   THROUGH   -   INTO

7.      FIFTY   -   A HUNDRED  

8.      1979   -   FELL   -   INTO

9.      LARGEST   -   LANDED

10. 1965   -   GLOVE   -   28 THOUSAND