The document is a worksheet with questions about the first 6 chapters of an unknown book. It provides clues about the plot: 1) Mr. Cavor believes he can create a substance opaque to gravity and includes a new element, helium, in its composition. 2) In his first attempt to create this "cavorite" substance, he blows off the roof of his house. 3) Cavor imagines building a spherical vessel large enough to hold two people and their luggage, made of steel lined with enamel and coated outside with cavorite. The questions give hints about the characters testing the sphere, feeling weightless inside it, and eventually landing on the moon but being unable to see the

1. Worksheet After reading (Chapters 1 – 6 ) try to fill in the words that will
complete the sentences according to the plot of the book.
Chapter 1
1. Mr. Cavor believed that he was capable of constructing a substance
that would be opaque to ………………………………. .
2. He would have to use a complicated combination of metals which included
a new element (for his time) that was called ………………………………
Chapter 2
3. In his first attempt to make this new “stuff” which he named ……………….
he blew off the ………………………. of the house.
4. As soon as it cooled to a temperature of 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and the process
of its manufacture was complete all the air above it ceased to have
any ……………………… .
Chapter 3
5. Cavor imagined that the sphere would be large enough to hold……………..
………………………………………....................... and it would be made of
…………………………. lined with thick …………………………
Of course, on the outside it would be ………………………with …………….
6. The sphere would be built in ………………………. , and each would be
capable of rolling up in the fashion of a roller ……………………… .
Chapter 4
7. After taking off the things that had been lying on the bottom of the sphere
were then …………………….. nearly a foot from the spherical wall.
8. Cavor suggested that they float …………to ……………….. with the things
between them.
9. As soon as his initial horror had passed, he resembled the feeling of how he
he felt in the sphere “ to lying on a very thick, soft, …………. ……..” .

2. 10.Finally the narrator (Mr. Bedford ) compares this experience not to the
beginning of a journey but like the beginning of a …………………….. .
Chapter 5
11. Cavor believes that there is no life on the moon and considers themselves as
ultra-arctic ……………… exploring the ……………………….. places of space.
12.While they were travelling in the sphere the two heroes’ …………………….
of oxygen, food and water had been extraordinarily slight.
Chapter 6
13. They finally landed on the moon and fell into a great ………………… .
14. They were not able to look out and see the landscape because it was
still ………………… and the glass of the sphere was ………………… so
they had to wait.
Use the following words or phrases
1. sections 2. helium 3. enamelled 4. roof 5. gravity 6. voyagers
7. crater 8. feather bed 9. cavorite 10. blind 11. steel
12. floating 13. dream 14. dewy 15. glass 16. back to back
17. dark 18. consumption 19. two people and their luggage 20. desolate