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Despite the fact that man has stopped going to the moon, Domino’s Pizza Japan has plans to be the first to establish a pizza store on the satellite offering visitors a full restaurant and delivery service.

Domino’s Japan’s president, wearing a full spacesuit with a lovely Domino’s patch, announced detailed plans for a moon location with an estimated budget of $21 billion. “In the future, we anticipate there will be many people living on the moon, astronauts who are working there and regular citizens,” he said. The plan involves 15 rocket trips to the moon to carry approximately 70 tons of construction material and pizza ovens. To save on enormous expenses, Domino’s will use mineral deposits on the moon to get the necessary building materials. ”We started thinking about this project last year, although we have not yet determined when the restaurant might open,” added the president.

There are also plans for a Honda-designed moon scooter to deliver to future moon suburbs. Domino’s has not confirmed if their “30 minutes or it’s free” delivery policy will apply. This announcement comes along with Domino’s Japan’s 25th anniversary and looks like a marketing strategy. The media speculate this is a grand design to attract attention inspired by Pizza Hut’s successful pizza delivery to the international space station in 2001.

So if Domino’s Pizza successfully executes all their plans for a moon branch, maybe you can get them to deliver to you and your friends on a space tour of the upper atmosphere.

RESPUESTAS

I. READING COMPREHENSION

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

1. Who would be Domino’s moon customers and where could they enjoy their pizzas?

• Domino’s moon common customers would be the astronauts that will live in the outer space due to their work, and even the citizens that would move to this place. They will be able to have their pizzas in the restaurants of the company, or they even can have the pizzas delivered to their homes.

2. What do they intend to do in order to keep costs down?

• They are thinking about using the rocks and minerals from the moon as the materials for the construction of the building that will host the restaurant.

3. What seems to be Domino’s real intention according to the media?

• According to the media, their real intention is to attract all the attention they can from the citizens and the society in general, as a commercial strategy, similar to the one that the company Pizza Hut did.

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

4. It will take the company a year to develop their plan.

• FALSE: “We started thinking about this project last year, although we have not yet determined when the restaurant might open” (LINE 7-8)

5. Domino’s would be the first company to deliver pizzas in space.

• FALSE: “... inspired by Pizza Hut’s successful pizza delivery to the international space station in 2001.” (LINE 12)

II. USE OF ENGLISH

6. FIND IN THE TEXT ONE WORD THAT HAS THE FOLLOWING DEFINITION:
“sum of money assigned to a particular purpose or period of time” (noun).

• budget  (LINE 4)

7. FILL IN THE GAP WITH THE CORRECT OPTION: (into / up / like / forward)

• You look like your brother.

8. GIVE A SYNONYM FOR “enormous” (adjective) AS IT IS USED IN THE TEXT (LINE 6).

• huge, high

9. GIVE A NOUN WITH THE SAME ROOT AS “apply” (verb).

• application
  

10. FILL IN THE GAP WITH A CORRECT FORM OF THE VERB IN BRACKETS:

• They should have told (tell) us something at yesterday’s meeting.

11. GIVE A QUESTION FOR THE UNDERLINED WORDS:
The rockets will transport 70 tons of equipment to the moon.

• How many tons of equipment will the rockets transport to the moon?

12. REWRITE THE SENTENCE WITHOUT CHANGING ITS MEANING. BEGIN AS INDICATED: 

Their story hasn’t been believed.

• Nobody has believed their story.

13. USE THE WORDS IN THE BOXES TO MAKE A MEANINGFUL SENTENCE. USE ALL AND ONLY THE WORDS IN THE BOXES WITHOUT CHANGING THEIR FORM:
tuna    yesterday    we    delivered    our     had     pizza

• We had out tuna pizza delivered yesterday.

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