Zog checked all the information on the computer screens of his spaceship. He was making an approach to Venus after
traveling more than 70 million miles from Mars. That planet was too cold, and he expected the (23)___________ on this one
to be too high. However, his job was to visit all the planets in the Sun’s system in the next 150 years.
Zog’s spaceship was not like the UFOs which often visited the Earth – the Earth people called them flying saucers. Instead, it
looked like an ice-cream cone – (24)___________, with lights all around the bottom.
Zog was ready to land on Venus. He found a flat area and stopped the spaceship. For a few minutes, he (25)___________ over
one spot, then he went down and touched the ground.
His computer told him that there were aliens in the area, but it had no data on their size. Zog looked out of one of the windows
and saw them for the first time. At first, he thought they were very small, but then he realized they were still a long way away.
As they came closer, he saw that they were actually (26)___________, and there were hundreds of them! He made a quick
decision, pushed some buttons and rose from the ground, high above the crowd. He pushed some more buttons and set a
course for his next planet, (27)___________.
(23) A. temperature B. gravity C. oxygen D. water
(24) A. circular B. disk-shaped C. triangular D. square
(25) A. flew B. hovered C. drove D. rode
(26) A. huge B. tiny C. crowded D. terrified
(27) A. Mars B. Venus C. the Moon D. the Earth