According to the speaker, what does the SeaOrbiter look like?
According to the speaker, what does the SeaOrbiter look like?
Listen and fill the blanks. Look, can you guess what it is? It looks like 1 _____ sinking in the sea, but in fact it is a sketch of a future ocean exploration station. Called the SeaOrbiter, the huge 51m (167ft) structure is set to be the world’s first 2____ ship allowing man a revolutionary view of life below the surface. Although currently only a prototype, its inventor Jacques Rougerie thinks his international 3______ station will soon be setting sail. Mr Rougerie wants the ship to provide scientists with a deeper 4____ into the little-known world under the sea. “At the moment, ocean scientists can 5____ only for short periods before they have to be brought back to the surface,” Mr Rougerie told The Times. “SeaOrbiter will be a 6____ mobile exploration station with a window to what is under the surface of the sea.” The architect, whose home and office are 7_____, wants to launch half a dozen of the 8_____. At the moment he says he has half the €35million (£32million) that it will cost to build the first one, and is 9_____ of finding the rest. The SeaOrbiter would also be a useful tool for studying the 10____ between global warming and the oceans.
Listen and fill the blanks. Look, can you guess what it is? It looks like 1 _____ sinking in the sea, but in fact it is a sketch of a future ocean exploration station. Called the SeaOrbiter, the huge 51m (167ft) structure is set to be the world’s first 2____ ship allowing man a revolutionary view of life below the surface. Although currently only a prototype, its inventor Jacques Rougerie thinks his international 3______ station will soon be setting sail. Mr Rougerie wants the ship to provide scientists with a deeper 4____ into the little-known world under the sea. “At the moment, ocean scientists can 5____ only for short periods before they have to be brought back to the surface,” Mr Rougerie told The Times. “SeaOrbiter will be a 6____ mobile exploration station with a window to what is under the surface of the sea.” The architect, whose home and office are 7_____, wants to launch half a dozen of the 8_____. At the moment he says he has half the €35million (£32million) that it will cost to build the first one, and is 9_____ of finding the rest. The SeaOrbiter would also be a useful tool for studying the 10____ between global warming and the oceans.