We choose to go to the moon speech - JKF

What is mainly the importance of the following passage (paragraph 1) to the President's speech? "The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."

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Which selection best identifies what the speaker believes to be a potential benefit of the space program?

• The space program would benefit a college known for its scientific research, as well as creating jobs in the future.

• Tourism in the city would grow, since many of the space missions would be launched from there.

• The space program would help the Soviets' efforts to launch their own space program.

• Astronauts could be the cowboys of space.

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Which of the following statements best summarizes the passage below (paragraph 3)? "But this city of Houston, this state of Texas, this country of the United States, was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward and so will space."

• Scientific discovery was the foundation on which all of the places Kennedy mentions were built.

• The Space Race will require a bold fight like the past ones that were needed to gain independence.

• Bold adventures like space exploration have no connection to events in the past.

• Going into space is likely going to require violence and casualties in order to take it from the Soviet Union.

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What mainly can the reader infer from the following passage (paragraph 9)? "We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."

• Kennedy's mission is to challenge the Soviets in a race to the Moon.

• Putting American astronauts on the Moon will be easy, but expensive.

• Kennedy understands that there may be some delay in beginning the space mission because of tough economic times.

• Going to the Moon is likely to be, in large part, a military operation.

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Which of these inferences about the Space Race is best supported by the text?

• Just like in the development of industrialization and nuclear power in the past, the United States is leading the way.

• If "space" falls into the wrong hands, it could create a dangerous situation for the United States.

• The United States has all of the technology it needs to launch a mission to the Moon but just hasn't bothered to go there.

• If the United States does not make a serious push to reach the Moon, no other country is likely to do it.

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Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 5?

• "This year's space budget is three times what it was in January 1961, and it is greater than the space budget of the previous eight years combined."

• "Within these last 19 months at least 45 satellites have circled the earth."

• "To be sure, we are behind, and will be behind for some time in manned flight."

• "For space science, like nuclear science and all technology, has no conscience of its own."

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What is most closely the central idea of "We Choose to Go to the Moon"?

• The Moon should be the primary goal of the American space program, just as past explorers conquered their environment.

• Going to the Moon is easily affordable.

• A key aspect to the success of American missions to space will be keeping a strict sense of secrecy around them.

• Americans cannot let their desire to win be the driving force in attempting to get to the Moon.

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Which sentence from the text most strongly supports the correct answer to Question 7?

• "We have had our failures, but so have others, even if they do not admit them."

• "Yet the vows of this Nation can only be fulfilled if we in this Nation are first, and, therefore, we intend to be first."

• "And finally, the space effort itself, while still in its infancy, has already created a great number of new companies, and tens of thousands of new jobs."

• "Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, 'Because it is there.'"

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Arrange the quotations from President Kennedy's address in the order they are spoken:

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What is the primary reason given for the United States' commitment to space exploration?

• To demonstrate technological superiority over other nations.

• To inspire future generations to pursue careers in science and engineering.

• To ensure national security against potential threats from space.

• To fulfill a promise made to the American public during the Cold War.