Task 1.

NO MORE THAN SIX WORDS

1.What is GDP per capita regarded as?

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2.Why do state-funded services such as public school not contribute to GDP?

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3.How did wages change in response to economic growth in the 1945-1970 period?

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4.What are the criteria of Gross National Happiness?

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5.Apart from social well-being, what is included as a factor determining the Sustainable Development
Index?

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1.a measure of well-being

2.they aren’t sold on the market

3.(grew) proportionally

4.health, education, strong communities, living standards

5.the environmental burdens of economic growth

Task 2. NO MORE THAN FOUR WORDS

Exoplanets are worlds that exist beyond our solar system. Another name of them is
(1)________________. They often revolve around their own stars. Some are included in entire
(2)________________.

Exoplanets are made up of similar materials and are as diverse as those in our solar system in terms of
(3)________________.

Gas giants are extremely large gaseous worlds. (4)_______________ are terrestrial planets with solid
surfaces with rock and ice. Earth analogs are worlds that are similar to the Earth in some aspects such as
size, composition and the distance to (5)___________________.

Five methods are employed to detect exoplanets.

1.(6)_______________: a planet cause a star to wobble.

2.Direct imaging: solar flares are blocked in order to see nearby objects.

3.Astrometry: the relation in movements between stars.

4.(7)_______________________: observe the curved light caused by the pulling force of planets.

5. Transit: the respective positions of the Earth, the star and the planets

The first confirmed exoplanets (8)______________________. Since then, many more have been
discovered. Our galaxy is estimated to contain (9)__________________ such planets.

The search for the outside worlds is to build up a (10)_____________________ and to find our whether
life exists somewhere out there in the universe.

1.extrasolar planets

2.planetary systems

3.(their) composition and structures

4.super earths

5.their home star

6.radial velocity

7.gravitational microlensing

8.orbiting a sun-like star

9.1 trillion

10.catalogue of known worlds