Hello there, As we agreed in class, heres a text (with questions) for you to prepare for the reading comprehension quiz. Greetings Quiz Preparation Meriem Chadid, born in Casablanca, Morocco, on October 11, 1969, has had a fascination for astronomy since she was a child. Early on, her interest was piqued when her brother gave her a book on Johannes Kepler, the German mathematician and astronomer. Meriem earned an MA in physics from the University of Casablanca and then moved to France to study imaging science in Nice. She spent three years in the southeast of France at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, where she obtained a PhD on her study, Stellar Pulsation and Evolution, exploring a mysterious class of pulsating stars. She obtained a post as an engineer astrophysicist at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Montpellier, France. While there, she was selected by the European Southern Observatory as one the first working astronomers to install and run the Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Paranal Mountain in the Atacama Desert in Chile. One of her proudest achievements has been her successful installation of astronomical experiments at Dome C in the South Pole which is, as she says, right in the heart of the Antarctic continent, in one of the coldest, most deserted and inaccessible places in the world. As Meriem explains, This is a unique place where prevailing conditions are of extreme cold, isolation, and where it is night several months of the year. It then becomes possible to observe the stars on a continuous basis. There is no soul that lives less than 1,000 miles away. The place is located at 3200 meters, but the weather is as if we were at 4000 meters. Installing an observatory in such an environment resembles a space mission in that we must check all the atmospheric parameters (turbulence, transparency, scintillation (twinkling), aurora, etc.). In 2001, she had joined the Civil Service in France and is currently stationed at the Observatoire de la Cote dAzur and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. Meriem Chadid is married to Jean Vernin -the astrophysist who is behind the project at Dome C- and has two children, Tycho and Leyla. I -READING COMPREHENSION (10pts): A - Choose the best title for this text:(1pt) a – Meriem chadid’s career b – Meriem chadid’s life c – Meriem chadid’s studies B - Are these sentences true of false? Justify: (2pts) 1 – Meriem was graduated in astronomy before going to France. ................................................................................................................................................................. 2 – In the south pole, the night lasts for many months. ................................................................................................................................................................. C – Answer these questions: (3pts) 1 – How did Meriem start being interested in astronomy? ................................................................................................................................................................. 2 – What was Meriem’s first job? ................................................................................................................................................................. 3 – What is her most important accomplishment? ................................................................................................................................................................. D – Find in the text words which mean the same as:(2pts) 1 – the science which studies the planets, the stars and all the universe: .............................................. 2 – Doctor of Philosophy: ............................................... E – What do the underlined words in the text refer to? (2pts) 1 – there (paragraph 3): .......................................................................................................................... 2 – This (paragraph 5): ..........................................................................................................
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