Unit 3: Selection Vocabulary 4

Lucinda and I wait in her room, listening at the door, tense with concentration.

Those animals, the SIM, searched every house in the compound, getting more and more destructive when they didn’t find what they were looking for, tromping through Chucha’s room, turning over her coffin and tearing off the velvet lining.

My last resort is asking Lucinda.

“A few months ago, he and his friends were involved in a plot to get rid of our dictator.”

“Why don’t we leave, too, since we’re not going to school anyway?”
“And abandon Tío Toni?”

And on April 6, American space pioneer John Glenn was laid to rest.

They can exist in only a narrow range of temperatures and find inhospitable both vacuums and a radioactive environment.

The storied Apollo missions included a mere six lunar landings, at an inflation-adjusted cost of $120 billion.

The Hubble telescope has perhaps revealed more about the universe than any other scientific instrument, cost about $14 billion, including imaging the first galaxies formed and played a key role in the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.

Developing human space-faring technology is crucial, but first we need to decide where to go.