Japan Sends Spacecraft Toward Phobos to Collect the First Samples From a Martian Moon

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How to approach this practice

Read the complete sentence and notice the subject, verb form, time reference and word order before answering.

1. Question 1 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The mission ___ five space agencies to study Phobos.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. brings together
   2. bring together
   3. bringing together
   4. to bringing together
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   Blank 1

   brings together

   Use the present simple for a current established fact.

2. Question 2 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The spacecraft ___ Mars by late next summer.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. is expected to reach
   2. is expected reaching
   3. expects reach
   4. expected to reaching
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   is expected to reach

   Use the future form for an expected later event.

3. Question 3 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The rover is designed ___ across Phobos’s surface.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. to bounce
   2. bouncing
   3. bounce to
   4. to bouncing
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   to bounce

   After “designed,” use the to-infinitive.

4. Question 4 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   Scientists hope that samples ___ evidence about the moons’ origin.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. will provide
   2. providing will
   3. will providing
   4. provide will
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   will provide

   Use the future modal “will” for an expected result.

5. Question 5 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   No spacecraft ___ on Phobos or Deimos yet.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. has landed
   2. have landed
   3. has landing
   4. was landed
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   has landed

   Use the present perfect for an experience absent until now.

6. Question 6 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The material could ___ understanding of other moons.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. improve
   2. improves
   3. improving
   4. to improved
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   improve

   After the modal “could,” use the base form of the verb.

7. Question 7 · Fill in the blank (dropdown)

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   Japan has previous experience ___ asteroid samples to Earth.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. returning
   2. return
   3. to returning
   4. returned
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   returning

   After “experience,” use a gerund to name the activity.

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