The Moon | |
| Anyone taking the trouble to look (1) ... on a clear moonlit night cannot fail to be moved | WARD |
| by the sight of our sister planet hanging up there in the sky like a silver ball casting (2) ... | GHOST |
| shadows on the Earth below. Few (3) ... objects can have had such an influence over | ANIMATE |
| religion and the arts. And never is the Moon's visual impact more (4) ... than when it is | IMPRESS |
| full and just above the distant horizon. Under these conditions, the apparent (5) ... of | PROXIMATE |
| the lunar disc to familiar (6) ... objects makes the Moon appear to be very much larger | TERRA |
| and closer than normal. But the fact that our (7) ... eyes still cannot discern more than | AID |
| just a few dark blotches on its surface demonstrates that this effect must indeed be just | |
| an optical illusion. The light from the Moon cannot really become magnified as it passes | |
| at a (8) ... angle through our atmosphere. But why should the Moon be an object worthy | GRAZE |
| of (9) ... study at all? Why cannot we be content just to gaze up at it in awe rather than | SCIENCE |
| attempt to probe its (10) ... secrets? Some would say that the study of the Moon, particularly | INNER |
| during the last ten years or so, has destroyed any precious illusions about the Moon that | |
| we might have held and given us very little in return. But this would be a very shortsighted | |
| view. |
!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition
Thursday, July 18, 2013
CPE - CERTIFICATE OF PROFICIENCY IN ENGLISH, Cambridge exam
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