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30. He was __________ to enter the competition.
a) too young b) young enough c) much younger
3.Read and retell the text. Answer the questions.
Do you believe that there are civilizations in the Universe? Why? Why not?
Horowitz and META
High on a hilltop, in the heart of suburban Boston, the dish of a radio telescope
moves slowly in the warm night air. There is almost no noise as the signals it receives
are fed into 128 different computers and analyzed. Paul Horowitz, a 42-year-old elec-
tronics professor, sits in the observatory with his team and waits.
Suddenly an alarm sounds, and the computer screen flashes “Possible Extrater-
restrial Signal.” The team jumps into action. Have they finally made contact with life
on another planet? Paul Horowitz built MEGA (the Megachannel Extraterrestrial As-
say), a machine specially designed to listen out for signals from other worlds. The
machine is just the latest system to search for life in space. The first one was Project
Ozma, started in 1959. Ozma had just one antenna listening to one frequency at a
time. Horowitz built META so that it could listen to 8.4 million channels simultane-
ously. Things have certainly changed. “We surely are the most primitive of commu-
nicative civilizations in the galaxy, Horowitz said at a conference recently, “and at
this stage all we should do is listen.” And because he believes that there are civiliza-
tions different from our own he took over an obsolete radio telescope at Harvard’s
Oak Ridge and together with graduate students built a machine capable of hearing
what “they” have to say to “us”.
So far there have been 2 alarms and “Possible Extraterrestrial Signals” which
turned out to be false alarms. But Horowitz says, “You know if we got something real
we’d probably convince ourselves it was false.” And so day after day and night after
night the men and women on Oak Ridge switch on their computers and programme
their radio dish. Is anybody out there?
4.Speak on the problem.
What qualities do you need to succeed in your profession?
36
30. He was __________ to enter the competition.
a) too young b) young enough c) much younger
3.Read and retell the text. Answer the questions.
Do you believe that there are civilizations in the Universe? Why? Why not?
Horowitz and META
High on a hilltop, in the heart of suburban Boston, the dish of a radio telescope
moves slowly in the warm night air. There is almost no noise as the signals it receives
are fed into 128 different computers and analyzed. Paul Horowitz, a 42-year-old elec-
tronics professor, sits in the observatory with his team and waits.
Suddenly an alarm sounds, and the computer screen flashes Possible Extrater-
restrial Signal. The team jumps into action. Have they finally made contact with life
on another planet? Paul Horowitz built MEGA (the Megachannel Extraterrestrial As-
say), a machine specially designed to listen out for signals from other worlds. The
machine is just the latest system to search for life in space. The first one was Project
Ozma, started in 1959. Ozma had just one antenna listening to one frequency at a
time. Horowitz built META so that it could listen to 8.4 million channels simultane-
ously. Things have certainly changed. We surely are the most primitive of commu-
nicative civilizations in the galaxy, Horowitz said at a conference recently, and at
this stage all we should do is listen. And because he believes that there are civiliza-
tions different from our own he took over an obsolete radio telescope at Harvards
Oak Ridge and together with graduate students built a machine capable of hearing
what they have to say to us.
So far there have been 2 alarms and Possible Extraterrestrial Signals which
turned out to be false alarms. But Horowitz says, You know if we got something real
wed probably convince ourselves it was false. And so day after day and night after
night the men and women on Oak Ridge switch on their computers and programme
their radio dish. Is anybody out there?
4.Speak on the problem.
What qualities do you need to succeed in your profession?
