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✍ Exercise: #Exercise_72
👉 Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from BBC news reports. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
📝 blasted / android / orbit / mimic / compassion
1⃣ The European Space Agency (Esa) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Mars Express mission. Launched on 2 June 2003, the probe went into __________ around the Red Planet in the December of that year.
2⃣ "All I can say is it makes you proud to be a human being when people show that kind of __________."
3⃣ A Chinese rocket carrying a probe destined for the Moon has __________ into space. A Long March 3C rocket with the Chang'e-2 probe took off from Xichang launch centre at about 1100 GMT.
4⃣ The story of __________ on the silver screen cannot pass without mention of three contemporary classics: The replicants rebelling against their preprogrammed demise in Blade Runner (1982); Arnold Schwarzenegger's gun-toting turn as 2029-vintage cyborg in The Terminator (1984); and Peter Weller as officer Alex J Murphy's alter ego in the dystopic Detroit of RoboCop (1987).
5⃣ A diabetes pill has anti-ageing effects and extends the life of male mice, research suggests. Scientists believe the drug, metformin, may __________ the effects of extreme calorie restriction.
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☑️ Answers: #Answers_72
1⃣ orbit
2⃣ compassion
3⃣ blasted
4⃣ androids
5⃣ mimic
👉 Use one of the words or phrases below to complete each of these sentences from BBC news reports. Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence correctly.
📝 blasted / android / orbit / mimic / compassion
1⃣ The European Space Agency (Esa) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its Mars Express mission. Launched on 2 June 2003, the probe went into __________ around the Red Planet in the December of that year.
2⃣ "All I can say is it makes you proud to be a human being when people show that kind of __________."
3⃣ A Chinese rocket carrying a probe destined for the Moon has __________ into space. A Long March 3C rocket with the Chang'e-2 probe took off from Xichang launch centre at about 1100 GMT.
4⃣ The story of __________ on the silver screen cannot pass without mention of three contemporary classics: The replicants rebelling against their preprogrammed demise in Blade Runner (1982); Arnold Schwarzenegger's gun-toting turn as 2029-vintage cyborg in The Terminator (1984); and Peter Weller as officer Alex J Murphy's alter ego in the dystopic Detroit of RoboCop (1987).
5⃣ A diabetes pill has anti-ageing effects and extends the life of male mice, research suggests. Scientists believe the drug, metformin, may __________ the effects of extreme calorie restriction.
➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖
☑️ Answers: #Answers_72
1⃣ orbit
2⃣ compassion
3⃣ blasted
4⃣ androids
5⃣ mimic