Questão 2609272

Text for the items from 28 to 30.

1 ____Today, it might be used in more mundane ways, suchToday, it might be used in more mundane ways, such

as checking the weather and sports scores, and helping with

minor trivia queries: “Alexa, how many cups in a quart?” But

4 the original inspiration for Amazon’s ubiquitous all-hearing

Internet sage was the talking computer on the Starship

Enterprise, which helped Captain Kirk navigate the cosmos on

7 “Star Trek.”

Now, Alexa may soon be going to space in reality.

Lockheed Martin, which is building the Orion

10 spacecraft that NASA hopes will fly astronauts to the moon

within a couple of years, is partnering with Amazon to put an

Alexa on the capsule.

13 ____The device would give astronauts real-timeThe device would give astronauts real-time

information on telemetry, the health of the spacecraft and its

speed. And, yes, they might utter something along the lines

16 of: “Alexa, how far to the moon?”

Astronauts would be able to get information about

their water supply or battery levels, even change the

19 temperature or color of the lights in the crew module, the

companies said.

Internet: <washingtonpost.com/technology>.

According to the text and previous grammar studies, judge the items from 28 to 30.

Starship Enterprise was the inspiration Lockheed Martin and NASA used to build the Orion spacecraft.