1. You are going to listen to text “One-Way Ticket to Mars Mission”. Be ready to fill in the gaps. One-Way Ticket to Mars Mission

NASA is _______________ for people to go to Mars, and never come back. This appealing _______________ is for people who want a permanent change of _______________ and planet. It is part of an ambitious new project to _______________ Mars called the Hundred Years Starship. Settlers would travel to the Red Planet and live there _______________. NASA says it would be too expensive to bring _______________ back to Earth. The space agency can _______________, however, to send supplies to the astronaut _______________. NASA has started the project with a modest $1.6 million, but hopes to _______________ investment from space-loving billionaires. Google founder Larry Page told NASA he’d be interested if they could get the _______________ of a one-way ticket down from $10 billion to $2 billion.

The _______________ to Mars could take just four months. Settling on the planet would be _______________ hazardous, especially the _______________ temperatures and carbon dioxide atmosphere. Many scientists think colonizing space is _______________. Stephen Hawking believes we must move to other planets to _______________ as a species. He said: “Once we spread out into space and _______________ independent colonies, our future should be safe.” Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies call it a “_______________ goal” and part of our desire to _______________ saying: “It would require not only major international cooperation, but a return to the exploration _______________ and risk-taking [character] of the great _______________ of Earth exploration, from Columbus to Amundsen.”