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LESSON 3 Quoted and Reported Speech

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1 READ the blog about space exploration. Notice the phrases in bold.
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Is space exploration still a good idea?

Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made the first
space flight by a woman. She said, “Once you’ve been in space,
you appreciate how small and fragile Earth is.” Several
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years after Tereshkova’s three-day flight, my grandparents
watched the first man walk on the moon. My grandmother
told me that it was an incredible moment. She said that she
remembered when Neil Armstrong said, “That’s one small
step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.” In those days,
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everyone thought that these were amazing achievements, but is
Valentina Tereshkova, the space exploration still a good idea today?
first woman sent to space,
June 16, 1963, Moscow Nowadays some leading politicians say that space
exploration is too expensive. They argue that the money
should be used to deal with problems on Earth. On the other hand, scientists tell us that
we have learned a lot from space travel. Some people even say the survival of humankind
may depend on space exploration. Obviously, the question is a serious one. In my opinion,
the answer is clear. As Carl Sagan said, “We have a basic responsibility to our species to
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venture to other worlds.”
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1 fragile: easily broken 3 species: a grouping of living things, such as the human species
2 giant leap: a very big step 4 venture: to act with risk or possible danger

“ We have a basic responsibility to our Astronaut Buzz Aldrich on

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species to venture to other worlds.
the moon (July 1969)
—Carl Sagan

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