Eating in space - Test 2

C1 Advanced · Word Formation · Cambridge English Advanced 4, Cambridge University Press

For questions 17–24, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

BENEFIT

DEVELOP

RELATE

PROVIDE

EDIBLE

INHABIT

ABLE

GO

Over the years, space (0) ___ has had a huge amount of investment and involved many people. All of this has been (17) ___ to society; without it we wouldn't have such devices as mobile phones or satellite TV today. There have been countless (18) ___ in many aspects of space travel but advances made to food consumed in space have been (19) ___ slow. Most early suggestions for the (20) ___ of food for astronauts were unacceptable, for example shredding their printed mission instructions and sprinkling them with water enriched with vitamins. The freeze-dried foods they did initially consume would doubtlessly have been regarded as totally (21) ___ by those of us on Earth. Today the (22) ___ of the International Space Station fortunately have a more appetising diet, since the larger spacecraft which is now being used (23) ___ them to take tinned foods and flexible pouches containing meat and vegetables. However, despite this, their food still remains limited, due to the (24) ___ challenges encountered with lack of gravity and the necessity for food to be sterile.

Eating in space

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