1) The passage discusses the possibility of life existing on other planets and suggests it may be more advanced than humans, having merged with machines.
2) Within the next million years, the passage argues that humans and machines may become so closely intertwined that individuals no longer have a separate sense of personality.
3) The explorers of space should therefore be prepared to encounter vastly different forms of alien life on other planets that have evolved under different environmental conditions than Earth.
The main theme is that life on other planets may have evolved in very different ways than on Earth under their unique environmental conditions over long periods of evolutionary time.
1) The passage discusses the possibility of life existing on other planets and suggests it may be more advanced than humans, having merged with machines.
2) Within the next million years, the passage argues that humans and machines may become so closely intertwined that individuals no longer have a separate sense of personality.
3) The explorers of space should therefore be prepared to encounter vastly different forms of alien life on other planets that have evolved under different environmental conditions than Earth.
The main theme is that life on other planets may have evolved in very different ways than on Earth under their unique environmental conditions over long periods of evolutionary time.
1) The passage discusses the possibility of life existing on other planets and suggests it may be more advanced than humans, having merged with machines.
2) Within the next million years, the passage argues that humans and machines may become so closely intertwined that individuals no longer have a separate sense of personality.
3) The explorers of space should therefore be prepared to encounter vastly different forms of alien life on other planets that have evolved under different environmental conditions than Earth.
The main theme is that life on other planets may have evolved in very different ways than on Earth under their unique environmental conditions over long periods of evolutionary time.
1) The passage discusses the possibility of life existing on other planets and suggests it may be more advanced than humans, having merged with machines.
2) Within the next million years, the passage argues that humans and machines may become so closely intertwined that individuals no longer have a separate sense of personality.
3) The explorers of space should therefore be prepared to encounter vastly different forms of alien life on other planets that have evolved under different environmental conditions than Earth.
The main theme is that life on other planets may have evolved in very different ways than on Earth under their unique environmental conditions over long periods of evolutionary time.
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Life on Other Planets
From Flight into Space
By J.N. Leonard
When imaginative men turn their eyes toward space and
wonder whether life exists in any part of it, they may cheer themselves by remembering that life needs not to resemble closely the life that exists on earth. Mars looks like the only planet where life like ours could exist and even this is doubtful. Even more interesting is the possibility that life on other planets may be in a more advanced stage of evolution. The present-day man is in a peculiar and probably fleeting stage. His individual units retain a strong sense of personality. They are in fact, still capable of favorable circumstances of leading individual lives. But man’s societies already sufficiently developed to have enormously more power and effectiveness than the individuals have. It is not likely that this transitional situation will continue very long on the evolutionary time scale. Fifty thousand years from now his societies may have become too close-knit that the individuals retain no sense of separate personality. Then little distinction will remain between the organic parts of the multiple organisms and the inorganic parts (machines) that have been constructed by it. A million years further on and a million years is a tick of the clock on the evolutionary time scale man and his machines may have merged as closely as the muscles of the human body and the nerve cells that actuate them. The explorers of space should be prepared for some such situations. If they arrive on a foreign planet when its living organisms are in an earlier stage of evolution, they may find the equivalent of dinosaurs or mollusks or even one-celled protozoa. They could live in very hot or very cold planets. They could breathe any atmosphere or none. They could build their bodies to any desirable size out of material plentiful in their planet’s crust. They could get their energy from sunlight. Such creatures might be relics of a bygone age, many millions of years ago, when their planet was favorable to the origin of life, or they might be immigrants from a favored planet.
Answer the question
1. What is the main idea of this passage? Life on Other Planets 2. Underline the five sentences that help you know the main idea. 3. What is the theme that the writer wants you to understand from this passage? A favoured planet READING COMPREHENSI ON-1 Golu and Molu
Golu and Molu were two friends. They lived in Rajnagar
colony. Golu worked hard and did his work in time. Molu loved to play and watch TV.He never came back in time in the evenings. He copied all his homework from Golu. He was not sincere in his work so he never got good marks. Golu was loved by his neighbours and teachers because he was sincere. Molu had one good habit. He helped others,he shared his snacks with his friends. Golu asked him to work in time so that he can be a better boy.Molu tried and he too was loved by all.
Read and Answer the following questions in your notebooks
1. Who were friends? Golu and Molu 2. Where did they live? They live Rajnagar colony 3. Who did work in time? Golu 4. What did Molu love to do? Play and watch TV 5. Who came late in the evenings? Golu 6. Why did Molu not get good marks? Because was sincere 7. Who loved Golu and why? Golu was loved by his neighbours and teachers because he was sincere. 8. What good habit Molu had? He helped others 9. What did Molu share with friends? His snacks with his friend. 10.How did Molu become a better boy? Molu tried and he too was loved by all.