Predicting Health Risks for Space Trips
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
NASA has a special tool for astronauts.
- A2
NASA has a special tool for astronauts.
- B1
NASA has created a special tool to predict health dangers for astronauts.
- B2
Astronauts face many unique dangers during long trips into space.
- C1
Venturing far beyond Earth exposes astronauts to a formidable array of unique dangers during their long trips into space.
- C2
Venturing beyond the protective embrace of Earth's orbit exposes astronauts to a formidable array of unique hazards, ranging from the invisible, damaging energy of cosmic radiation to the profound physiological toll of microgravity.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- predict
- to say that an event or action will happen in the future
- estimate
- to guess or calculate the cost, size, or value of something
- simulation
- models of a real activity, created for training or testing
- infection
- diseases in a part of your body that are caused by bacteria or a virus
- kidney stone
- small, hard masses that form in the kidneys and can cause severe pain
- limited
- small in amount or number
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by NASA. Read the original for the full report.