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The Ministry of Defence has released eighteen UFO -Unidentified Flying Object- files that include an account of a wartime meeting attended by the Prime Minister Winston Churchill. He was so concerned about the issue that he ordered it to be kept secret for at least 50 years to prevent “mass panic.” Nick Pope, a UFO sightings investigator, explained: "What happened is that a scientist, whose grandfather was one of Churchill's bodyguards, said that Churchill and Eisenhower got together to hide a phenomenal UFO sighting that was witnessed by a RAF crew on their way back from a bombing raid.” The interesting thing is that most of the UFO files from that period have been deleted. The reason apparently was that Churchill believed it would cause mass panic and it would shatter people's religious views.

According to the files, there were also more than 600 reports of sightings of UFOs in 1996. Dr David Clarke, a UFO consultant to the National Archives, explained to the BBC why the papers are being made public now: "Since the Freedom of Information Act arrived in 2005, UFOs have become the third-most popular subject for people to write to the Ministry of Defence saying “Please, could you release this file or papers that you hold on this particular case?" What they've decided to do is to be totally open and to say “Look, we're not holding any secrets back about this subject, we've got all these files and we're going to make them available to the public.”

These files are part of a project between the Ministry of Defence and the National Archives and they are available at their website.

RESPUESTAS

I. READING COMPREHENSION

ANSWER QUESTIONS 1-3 ACCORDING TO THE INFORMATION GIVEN IN THE TEXT. USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

1. For what reason did Churchill and Eisenhower meet?

• They met in order to conceal the evidence about the existence of a UFO seen by a RAF crew.

2. Why did Churchill order to destroy UFO files?

• To avoid mass panic and in order not to harm people´s religious beliefs.

3.Which decision has the government eventually made about UFO files? 

• They have decided to make them public.

ARE THESE STATEMENTS TRUE OR FALSE? JUSTIFY YOUR ANSWERS WITH THE PRECISE WORDS OR PHRASES FROM THE TEXT, OR USE YOUR OWN WORDS.

4. Churchill did not actually give any importance to the issue of UFO sightings.

• FALSE: He was so concerned about the issue that he ordered it to be kept secret for at least 50 years to prevent “mass panic” (LINES 2-3)

5. Getting to know about secret UFOs is nowadays one of the most popular issues.

• TRUE: UFOs have become the third-most popular subject for people to write to the Ministry of Defence”. (LINES 8-9).

II. USE OF ENGLISH

6 . FIND IN THE TEXT ONE SYNONYM FOR “worried” (adjective).

• concerned (LINE 2)

7. FIND IN THE TEXT THE WORD WHICH HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION: “to allow something to be shown in public” (verb)

• release (LINE 1)

8 . GIVE A NOUN WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “believe” (verb).

• belief

9. WHICH WORD DOES NOT HAVE THE SAME MEANING?

• Go on (*) / keep on (*) / follow on / hold on (*)

10. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO REPORTED SPEECH: 

BBC News reported: “The government will release all the UFO files that have been secret over the past 50 years.”

• BBC News reported (that) the government would release all the UFO files that had been secretover the past 50 years.

11. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS:
      H. G. Wells wrote the science fiction novel ‘The War of the Worlds’ in 1898.

• When did H. G. Wells write the science-fiction novel “The War of the Worlds?”

12. TURN THE FOLLOWING SENTENCE INTO THE ACTIVE VOICE:

      “The papers are being made public now.”

• They are making the papers public now.

13. COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING (CONDITIONAL) SENTENCE:

• “If I were abducted by aliens, I would be terrified.”

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