Google launches Project Suncatcher to test whether AI computing can move into orbit

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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 satellite will run Gemma for fifteen minutes at a time, ___ heat-management constraints.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. reflecting
   2. reflected
   3. to reflect
   4. having reflected
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   reflecting

   The participial phrase correctly expresses a reason connected to the subject.

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

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   Google plans ___ two more satellites in orbit next year.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. place
   2. placing
   3. to place
   4. placed
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   to place

   The verb plan requires a to-infinitive in this construction.

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

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The prototype carries chips ___ Google developed for machine learning.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. which
   2. what
   3. whose
   4. where
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   which

   The relative clause requires the past-tense verb developed.

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

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   Demand exceeds supply, ___ Google to expand its computing infrastructure rapidly.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. prompting
   2. prompted
   3. to prompt
   4. prompt
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   prompting

   The present participle correctly expresses the resulting consequence.

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

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   Had Google not partnered with Planet, the prototype ___ more difficult to develop.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. would be
   2. would have been
   3. will have been
   4. had been
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   would have been

   This mixed conditional requires would have been after the unreal past condition.

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

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   The initiative is intended to determine whether the TPUs can ___ physical stresses in space.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. withstand
   2. withstands
   3. withstood
   4. withstanding
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   withstand

   The modal can takes the bare infinitive withstand.

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

   Choose the correct option for each blank.

   Only after further testing ___ Google be able to assess commercial feasibility.

   Choices for blank 1

   1. Google will
   2. will Google
   3. Google would
   4. would Google
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   will Google

   Negative-fronted inversion requires auxiliary-subject inversion.

What to review next

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