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2. VOCABULARY
Before you go to the reading section, match the words on the left to the words which mean
about the same as the words on the right. Do this activity by referring to the reading
passage in the reading section.
1. Investigate v
2. Demolish v
3. Trunk n
4. Upward adv
5. Glimpses n
6. Streak v
7. Broadcast v
8. Melt adj
9. Crater n
10. Transport v
a. Hole
b. Toward a higher level
c. Sights
d. Move
e. Destroy
f. The part at the back of a
car g.
Examine h.
Transmit by radio or TV i.
Run or fly so fast j.
Become liquid
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The Peekskill Fall Crash Boom Pow
www.nasa.gov No,
it wasn’t Batman, Superman or an automobile accident. Michelle
Knapp, a typical eighteen year old high school senior from Peekskill,
NY, was home watching television at 7:50 Friday evening October
9, 1992, when she heard a loud crash. She rushed out of her
house to investigate and found that her 1980 red Malibu had a demolished
trunk. Stop
reading and answer the following questions.
1. What
was Michelle Knapp doing when she heard a loud crash? _________________________________________________________________________
2. What
did she found then? _________________________________________________________________________
3. What
happened to her car? _________________________________________________________________________
In other parts of eastern United States, video cameras that had been focused on
high
school football games shifted upward and caught glimpses of an object streaking
across
the night sky. Later that evening, local television stations broadcast the videos of this
spectacular meteor. Once a meteor makes it through the Earth’s atmosphere and strikes the
ground, it is called a meteorite.
Stop reading and answer the following questions.
1. What
was seen in the camera? _________________________________________________________________________
2. What
is a meteorite? _________________________________________________________________________
3. READING
Read the reading passage below and follow the instructions.
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