Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.

TEXT IV

Rocket Man

My father was a rocket man

He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars

My mother and I would watch the sky

And wonder if a falling star

5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside

My mother and I

Never went out

Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out

10 Or to escape the pain

We only went out when it rained

My father was a rocket man

He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond

15 the sky

And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in

space

I could read the silent cry

That if my father fell into a star

20 We must not look upon that star again

Tears are often jewel-like

My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels

were the stars

25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find

In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star

One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him

inside

Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.

Direction: Read text IV to answer questions 13 to 16.

TEXT IV

Rocket Man

My father was a rocket man

He often went to Jupiter or Mercury, to Venus or to Mars

My mother and I would watch the sky

And wonder if a falling star

5 Was a ship becoming ashes with a rocket man inside

My mother and I

Never went out

Unless the sky was cloudy or the sun was blotted out

10 Or to escape the pain

We only went out when it rained

My father was a rocket man

He loved the world beyond the world, the sky beyond

15 the sky

And on my mother's face, as lonely as the world in

space

I could read the silent cry

That if my father fell into a star

20 We must not look upon that star again

Tears are often jewel-like

My mother's went unnoticed by my father, for his jewels

were the stars

25 And in my father's eyes I knew he had to find

In the sanctity of distance something brighter than a star

One day they told us the sun had flared and taken him

inside

Adapted from: ROCKET man. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Songwriter: Tom Rapp. In THE USE of Ashes. Interpreter: Pearls Before Swine. Florida: Editor Ogmios, 1970. (03:06). Available on: https://www.vagalume.com.br/pearls-before-swine/rocket-man.html. Accessed on March 17th, 2025.

Direction: Consider text III to answer questions 10 to 12.

TEXT III

MARK, Tatulli. Heart of the City. Available on: https://www.gocomics.com/blog /326/the-truth-is-out-there-happy-world-ufo-day. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025

Direction: Consider text III to answer questions 10 to 12.

TEXT III

MARK, Tatulli. Heart of the City. Available on: https://www.gocomics.com/blog /326/the-truth-is-out-there-happy-world-ufo-day. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025

Direction: Consider text III to answer questions 10 to 12.

TEXT III

MARK, Tatulli. Heart of the City. Available on: https://www.gocomics.com/blog /326/the-truth-is-out-there-happy-world-ufo-day. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025

Direction: Consider text II to answer questions 05 to 09.

TEXT II

Is There Life On Other Planets?

The ultimate goal of NASA's exoplanet program is to find

unmistakable signs of current life on a planet beyond Earth.

How soon that can happen depends on two unknowns: the

prevalence of life in the galaxy and how lucky we get as we

5 take those first, tentative, exploratory steps.

Our early planet finding missions, such as NASA’s Kepler

and its extended incarnation, K2, or the James Webb Space

Telescope, could yield bare bones evidence of the

potentially habitable worlds. James Webb, designed in part

10 to investigate gas giants and super-Earths, might find an

outsized version of our planet. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman

Space Telescope or the Wide-Field Infrared Survey

Telescope, could zero in on a distant planet’s reflected light

to detect the signatures of oxygen, water vapor, or some

15 other powerful indication of possible life.

But unless we get lucky, the search for signs of life could

take decades. Discovering another blue-white marble hidden

in the star field, like a sand grain on the beach, will probably

require an even larger imaging telescope. Designs are

20 already underway for that next-generation planet finder, to

be sent aloft in the 2030s or 2040s.

MIT physics professor Sara Seager looks for possible

chemical combinations that could signal the presence of

alien life. She and her biochemistry colleagues first focused

25 on the six main elements associated with life on Earth:

carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur and

hydrogen.

“We’re going to have so few planets, we have to get lucky,”

Seager said. “I don’t want to miss anything. I don’t want to

30 miss it because we weren’t smart enough to think of some

molecule.”

Adapted from: NASA. Is There Life On Other Planets? Available on: https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/is-there-life-on-other-planets. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025.

Glossary:

1. exoplanet: a planet of a star that is outside the solar system.

2. prevalence: the fact that something is very common or happens often.

3. NASA’s Kepler: space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy.

4. loft: in the air or in a higher position.

5. MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Direction: Consider text II to answer questions 05 to 09.

TEXT II

Is There Life On Other Planets?

The ultimate goal of NASA's exoplanet program is to find

unmistakable signs of current life on a planet beyond Earth.

How soon that can happen depends on two unknowns: the

prevalence of life in the galaxy and how lucky we get as we

5 take those first, tentative, exploratory steps.

Our early planet finding missions, such as NASA’s Kepler

and its extended incarnation, K2, or the James Webb Space

Telescope, could yield bare bones evidence of the

potentially habitable worlds. James Webb, designed in part

10 to investigate gas giants and super-Earths, might find an

outsized version of our planet. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman

Space Telescope or the Wide-Field Infrared Survey

Telescope, could zero in on a distant planet’s reflected light

to detect the signatures of oxygen, water vapor, or some

15 other powerful indication of possible life.

But unless we get lucky, the search for signs of life could

take decades. Discovering another blue-white marble hidden

in the star field, like a sand grain on the beach, will probably

require an even larger imaging telescope. Designs are

20 already underway for that next-generation planet finder, to

be sent aloft in the 2030s or 2040s.

MIT physics professor Sara Seager looks for possible

chemical combinations that could signal the presence of

alien life. She and her biochemistry colleagues first focused

25 on the six main elements associated with life on Earth:

carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur and

hydrogen.

“We’re going to have so few planets, we have to get lucky,”

Seager said. “I don’t want to miss anything. I don’t want to

30 miss it because we weren’t smart enough to think of some

molecule.”

Adapted from: NASA. Is There Life On Other Planets? Available on: https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/is-there-life-on-other-planets. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025.

Glossary:

1. exoplanet: a planet of a star that is outside the solar system.

2. prevalence: the fact that something is very common or happens often.

3. NASA’s Kepler: space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy.

4. loft: in the air or in a higher position.

5. MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Direction: Consider text II to answer questions 05 to 09.

TEXT II

Is There Life On Other Planets?

The ultimate goal of NASA's exoplanet program is to find

unmistakable signs of current life on a planet beyond Earth.

How soon that can happen depends on two unknowns: the

prevalence of life in the galaxy and how lucky we get as we

5 take those first, tentative, exploratory steps.

Our early planet finding missions, such as NASA’s Kepler

and its extended incarnation, K2, or the James Webb Space

Telescope, could yield bare bones evidence of the

potentially habitable worlds. James Webb, designed in part

10 to investigate gas giants and super-Earths, might find an

outsized version of our planet. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman

Space Telescope or the Wide-Field Infrared Survey

Telescope, could zero in on a distant planet’s reflected light

to detect the signatures of oxygen, water vapor, or some

15 other powerful indication of possible life.

But unless we get lucky, the search for signs of life could

take decades. Discovering another blue-white marble hidden

in the star field, like a sand grain on the beach, will probably

require an even larger imaging telescope. Designs are

20 already underway for that next-generation planet finder, to

be sent aloft in the 2030s or 2040s.

MIT physics professor Sara Seager looks for possible

chemical combinations that could signal the presence of

alien life. She and her biochemistry colleagues first focused

25 on the six main elements associated with life on Earth:

carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur and

hydrogen.

“We’re going to have so few planets, we have to get lucky,”

Seager said. “I don’t want to miss anything. I don’t want to

30 miss it because we weren’t smart enough to think of some

molecule.”

Adapted from: NASA. Is There Life On Other Planets? Available on: https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/is-there-life-on-other-planets. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025.

Glossary:

1. exoplanet: a planet of a star that is outside the solar system.

2. prevalence: the fact that something is very common or happens often.

3. NASA’s Kepler: space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy.

4. loft: in the air or in a higher position.

5. MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Direction: Consider text II to answer questions 05 to 09.

TEXT II

Is There Life On Other Planets?

The ultimate goal of NASA's exoplanet program is to find

unmistakable signs of current life on a planet beyond Earth.

How soon that can happen depends on two unknowns: the

prevalence of life in the galaxy and how lucky we get as we

5 take those first, tentative, exploratory steps.

Our early planet finding missions, such as NASA’s Kepler

and its extended incarnation, K2, or the James Webb Space

Telescope, could yield bare bones evidence of the

potentially habitable worlds. James Webb, designed in part

10 to investigate gas giants and super-Earths, might find an

outsized version of our planet. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman

Space Telescope or the Wide-Field Infrared Survey

Telescope, could zero in on a distant planet’s reflected light

to detect the signatures of oxygen, water vapor, or some

15 other powerful indication of possible life.

But unless we get lucky, the search for signs of life could

take decades. Discovering another blue-white marble hidden

in the star field, like a sand grain on the beach, will probably

require an even larger imaging telescope. Designs are

20 already underway for that next-generation planet finder, to

be sent aloft in the 2030s or 2040s.

MIT physics professor Sara Seager looks for possible

chemical combinations that could signal the presence of

alien life. She and her biochemistry colleagues first focused

25 on the six main elements associated with life on Earth:

carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur and

hydrogen.

“We’re going to have so few planets, we have to get lucky,”

Seager said. “I don’t want to miss anything. I don’t want to

30 miss it because we weren’t smart enough to think of some

molecule.”

Adapted from: NASA. Is There Life On Other Planets? Available on: https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/is-there-life-on-other-planets. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025.

Glossary:

1. exoplanet: a planet of a star that is outside the solar system.

2. prevalence: the fact that something is very common or happens often.

3. NASA’s Kepler: space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy.

4. loft: in the air or in a higher position.

5. MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Direction: Consider text II to answer questions 05 to 09.

TEXT II

Is There Life On Other Planets?

The ultimate goal of NASA's exoplanet program is to find

unmistakable signs of current life on a planet beyond Earth.

How soon that can happen depends on two unknowns: the

prevalence of life in the galaxy and how lucky we get as we

5 take those first, tentative, exploratory steps.

Our early planet finding missions, such as NASA’s Kepler

and its extended incarnation, K2, or the James Webb Space

Telescope, could yield bare bones evidence of the

potentially habitable worlds. James Webb, designed in part

10 to investigate gas giants and super-Earths, might find an

outsized version of our planet. NASA's Nancy Grace Roman

Space Telescope or the Wide-Field Infrared Survey

Telescope, could zero in on a distant planet’s reflected light

to detect the signatures of oxygen, water vapor, or some

15 other powerful indication of possible life.

But unless we get lucky, the search for signs of life could

take decades. Discovering another blue-white marble hidden

in the star field, like a sand grain on the beach, will probably

require an even larger imaging telescope. Designs are

20 already underway for that next-generation planet finder, to

be sent aloft in the 2030s or 2040s.

MIT physics professor Sara Seager looks for possible

chemical combinations that could signal the presence of

alien life. She and her biochemistry colleagues first focused

25 on the six main elements associated with life on Earth:

carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorous, sulfur and

hydrogen.

“We’re going to have so few planets, we have to get lucky,”

Seager said. “I don’t want to miss anything. I don’t want to

30 miss it because we weren’t smart enough to think of some

molecule.”

Adapted from: NASA. Is There Life On Other Planets? Available on: https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/is-there-life-on-other-planets. Accessed on: February 25th, 2025.

Glossary:

1. exoplanet: a planet of a star that is outside the solar system.

2. prevalence: the fact that something is very common or happens often.

3. NASA’s Kepler: space telescope designed to survey a portion of the Milky Way galaxy.

4. loft: in the air or in a higher position.

5. MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.