Spotlight - 14.2019

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14/2019
Lunch with aliens US

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Land und Leute

1. On the Extraterrestrial Highway


2. The first stop on the RV trip is in Nevada, at Kershaw-Ryan Park.
   A. National B. State C. Federal


3. Nearby Caliente has a beautiful railroad depot that was built in the Spanish
   Style.
   A. Mormon B. Military C. Mission


4. The Extraterrestrial Highway is a famous -mile section of Route
   375 that runs past Area 51.
   A. 50 B. 100 C. two


5. The Quonset hut on the Extraterrestrial Highway guarded by a huge metal
   is the Alien Research Center.
   A. spaceman B. humanoid robot C. desert fox


6. Area 51 is a secret part of a located within a much larger test
   range.
   A. US Air Force base B. mountaintop C. town


7. The store clerk at the Alien Research Center tells the author anecdotes of
   visitors claiming to have been abducted by.
   A. cult members B. immigration officials C. aliens


8. The author sees real “aliens” drinking American beer at the
   Little A’Le’Inn in Rachel, Nevada.
   A. cheap B. the finest C. boiled


9. The RV drives by an “alien city” in Tonopah, Nevada, but it’s actually the
   Crescent Dunes Project.
   A. Nuclear Missile B. Solar Energy C. Vegan Cheese


10. California’s Mono Lake is a soda lake that looks like it could be on a
    .
    A. faraway planet B. Greek island C. lost map
    10. The lake has been called “the busiest inter-
    national in California” because it
    attracts so many migratory birds.
    A. launch pad
    B. space station
    C. airport

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In our Travel feature (pages 28–35), Claudine Weber-Hof takes us to lunch with

aliens. Here, you can test yourself on what you have read.