Exercise 1 ( ). Read the text and fill gaps A-G with parts of sentences 1-7.

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски A-G частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1-7.

drifted into the path of Earth
a molten sphere burning brightly
pulled the debris crashing back
This debris coalesced into a ball
that one passing rock can cause
it was being assaulted
a sense of damage that was done
WHERE DID THE MOON COME FROM?

Let me take you back to the earliest days of our planet, four and a half billion years ago. At this time, the Earth had no moon. It was orbiting the Sun alone, and (A) by rocks and comets. Today, there are no scars left from this cosmic pinball but to get (B) , we’ve come to the Arizona desert to a great hole in the ground.

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This is a beautiful crater, a near-perfect circle a mile in diameter. It was formed when a meteor crashed into the Earth a mere fifty thousand years ago. That’s nothing on the timescale that we’re talking about. But, it’s amazing how much damage (C) . The early Earth was bombarded with rocks; it must have been mayhem. And then along came something much, much bigger.

Another planet the size of Mars (D) . It was on a collision course. It hit the Earth with a glancing blow. Imagine the power released by such a collision!

The impact sent a mass of liquid rock into orbit. (E) and the moon was formed, just fourteen thousand miles away from the early Earth. This was the closest point it could have been. Any closer, and gravity would have (F) to Earth and there’d be no moon.

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Today the moon is just a rock, reflecting the sun’s light, but back then it was (G) . It must have looked amazing: an enormous orange disc in the sky.

Imagine the scene: the first moonrise over the early Earth. Our world was no longer alone. It had a huge, powerful neighbour, and ever since this has been a very different type of planet.

Примечание:

Read through the whole text quickly to get the general idea, before trying to complete the sentences. Сначала прочитайте весь текст, чтобы понять общую идею. Не пытайтесь сразу заполнить пропуски.
Study the sentences with the gaps, find keywords, pay attention to which part of a sentence is missing. Внимательно изучите предложения с пропусками, найдите ключевые слова, обратите внимание, какая часть предложения отсутствует.
Mind that the resulting part must be fitting in the context of the sentence and its grammar. Не забывайте, что вставленная часть должна подходить по контексту и грамматически.
You can do this task in several ways: you can rewrite the missing parts in the resulting order or you can just write a sequence of letters and numbers. Вы можете выполнить это упражнение несколькими можно переписать пропущенные части в получившемся порядке или же записать последовательность букв и цифр.
For each correct answer, you will get 2 points. In total, you can get up to 14 points for this task. За каждый верный ответ вы получите За полностью верно выполненное задание вы получите