Задание

11.Прочитай текст и заполни пропуски A–F частями предложений, обозначенными цифрами 1–7. Одна из частей в списке 1–7 лишняя. Занеси цифры, обозначающие соответствующие части предложений, в поле ответа.

Nearly 1,800 years before Copernicus, Aristarchus of Samos suggested that the Sun was the centre of the Universe. But this view was ignored. The generally accepted view was that the Earth was at the centre of the Universe, and this belief became crystallised in Ptolemy's great work "Almagest", A______________. It was to remain the accepted model for more than a thousand years, until after Copernicus died in 1543.

Copernicus was a famous astronomer B______________. Apart from anything else, distant stars had to be moving at impossible speeds. Then, he developed his own theory of the Universe, C______________. He described these planetary motions in his book "On the Revolutions of Heavenly Bodies". This was the first scientific study of cosmology that challenged both the views of his peers and the authority of the Church. It was not published until 1543, D______________. His fears may have caused him to delay publication E______________.

What worried Copernicus was that if the Sun really was the centre of the Universe, then the Earth must be moving. This contradicted various statements in the Bible and was to cause immense trouble for the Italian scientist Galileo when he confirmed it some 90 years later.

In fact, the Sun is the centre of our solar system but not of our galaxy F______________. Nevertheless, Copernicus' theory was an adequate approximation, and it slowly revolutionised the way people thought about the Universe.

1. who is one of the most famous ones

2. nor of the Universe

3. who concluded that it was unlikely that thousands of stars rotate rapidly around the Earth every 24 hours

4. which was a 13-volume work written in the 1st century AD

5. until he was beyond any accusations

6. when Copernicus was on his deathbed

7. in which the Earth and all the other planets orbit the Sun