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air, 4_. And what a view it is! Hubble is so powerful it could spot a fly on the moon. Yet in an average orbit, it uses the same amount of energy as 28 100-watt light bulbs. Hubble pictures require no film. The telescope takes digital images 5_. Hubble has snapped photos of storms on Saturn and exploding stars. Hubble A. which is above Earth’s atmosphere. B. which are transmitted to scientists on Earth. C. which is invisible to the human eye. D. who calculated the speed at which galaxies move. E. so it has a clear view of space. F. because many stars are in clouds of gas. G. but where it is. doesn’t just focus on our solar system. It also peers into our galaxy and beyond. Many Hubble photos show the stars that make up the Milky Way galaxy. A galaxy is a city of stars. Hubble cannot take pictures of the sun or other very bright objects, because doing so could “fry” the telescope’s instruments, but it can detect infrared and ultra violet light 6_. Some of the sights of our solar system that Hubble has glimpsed may even change the number of planets in it.
A15 — A21 Прочитайте текст и выполните задания А15 — А21, обводя цифру 1, 2, 3 или 4, со-^ ответствующую номеру выбранного вами варианта ответа. Whilst travelling in 2001, I had my first but definitely not last, go at snowboarding. Rhona and I went to the Cardona ski resort, a couple of hours from Queenstown in New Zealand. We had been staying in Queenstown for a couple of weeks and had tried a couple of the local ski. resorts. They had been so popular, that there was almost no room to play. The problem for me with this was that with so many people moving around me, my eyes were constantly re-focusing. This meant that I couldn’t see a thing! As I had never snowboarded before, we decided that it was going to be a problem. A guy at one of the local ski rental shops recommended that we should try Cardona. 88
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