KEY 10
I.
Listen to a brief biology of Yuri Gagarin. Decide if the following statements are true (T) or false (F).
1.
Yuri Gagarin was the eldest child in the family.
F
2.
His love for flying was inspired by seeing a fighter Plane’s landing.
T
3.
His first flight was carried out with no one else.
T
4.
More than 10 years after he joined the Soviet Air Force, he became the first human to orbit Earth.
F
5.
Yurin Gagarin successfully landed inside of Vostok 1.
F
II.
Listen again and answer the questions.
1.
What was Yuri Gagarin trained to become?
A COSMONAUT
2.
When did he become the first man to orbit Earth?
On April 12, 1961
3.
What was his spacecraft’s name?
Vostok 1
4.
What was the speed of the spacecraft?
27,400 Kilometers per hour
5.
What was he called after returning to Earth?
An International hero
III.Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part.
1.
A. habitat
B. parabolic
C. spacewalk
D. galaxy
2.
A. telescope
B. microgravity
C. cooperate
D. rocket
3.
A. universe
B. museum
C. rinseless
D. space
4.
A. necessarily
B. mechanic
C. exception
D. apprentice
5.
A. double
B. enough
C. resource
D. rough
IV. Find the word which has a different stress from the other words.
1.
A. universe
B. sateline
C. experience
D. meterorite
2.
A. spacewalk
B. trainee
C. object
D. private
3.
A. telescope
B. collection
C. giant
D. atmosphere
4.
A. champion
B. spaceship
C. galaxy
D. galactic
5.
A. solar
B. asteroid
C. comet
D. environment
6.
A. astronomy
B. astronomer
C. astronomical
D. emergency
7.
A. sateline
B. meteorite
C. maintenance
D. adventure
8.
A. gravity
B. telescope
C. Mercury
D. survival
9.
A. universe
B. parabolic
C. temperature
D. Jupiter
10. A. alien
B. atmostphere
C. resouceful
D. galaxy
V.
Choose the best answer.
1.
This aircraft is capable of…………… 30 passengers.
A.
Holding
B. placing
C. accomodating
D. flying
2.
……………food is specially created and processed for consumption by astronauts in outer space.
A.
Universe
B. Land
C. Planet
D. Space
3.
Do you believe that space……………have landed on our planet?
A.
Robots
B. terrorists
C. aliens
D. advertisement
4.
How many……………orbit the sun?
A.
Spaces
B. Mars
C. UFOs
D. planets
5.
The first……………was done by Alexei Leonov, a Russian cosmonaut on March 18
th
, 1965. It was 10
minutes long.
A.
Spacesuit
B. space walk
C. spaceship
D. spaceward
6.
The Milky Way is just a ……………in the universe and it contains our Solar System.
A.
Planet
B. comet
C. meteorite
D. galaxy
7.
Christer Fuglesang said he enjoyed floating around in the……………environment.
A.
Homesick
B. heavy
C. weightless
D. quiet
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