Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space

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<i><b>Valentina Tereshkova the first woman in space</b></i>

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel into space. She was born (57).... a farm in the Russian village of
Masiennikova. She worked in a factory but really wanted something more exciting .In 1959 she tried
parachute-jumping(nhay du) and (58)....became good at it. Two years later Yuri Gagarin made the first flight into space. Valentina was
sure that she could do that too! For two years Valentina trained hard to be an (59)... She exercised, practised being 60) ...
and, in her spacesuit, learned the technical skills for space flight. On 16 June 1963, her spaceship Vostok VI was rocketed
into space to orbit the Earth. She stayed in space for three days, making forty-eight orbits and travelling over one and a half
million kilometres. The Russian people were (61)...of Valentina and they gave her medals and awards. She had shown that
women astronauts were more than equal to men.

57. A. in
58. A. late
59. A, astronomer
60. A. weigh
61. A. proud

B. at C. on
B. early C. earlier
B. astronaut C. cosmos
B. weightlessness C. weight
B. scared C. satisfied

D. from
D. soon
D. universe
D. weightless
D. surprised

On 12th_{April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian …67… became the first human being in space. Although his flight lasted only}
108 minutes, its …68… made him a national hero. He also became the first person to eat and drink in …69…, and he was able
to view the …70… in a way that no one had done before. Unfortunately, a plane crash on March 1968 made Gagarin’s desire
of revisiting space impossible. After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia named
…71… him.

67. A. writer B. worker C. fighter D. cosmonaut

68. A. attraction B. success C. failure D. strength

69. A. water B. spacecraft C. weightlessness D. gravity

70. A. Moon B. Sun C. Mars D. Earth

71. A. to B. after C. with D. for

Neither my parents nor my brother ………..at my cousin’s wedding party yesterday.

A. was B. being C. were D. have been

Sue left her handbag in the room. She also left her hat there. (both…and)

………

Animals that are born in zoos know nothing about life in the forests. (reduce relative clause)

………

<i>. he /fond / collect / stamps / discarded envelopes.</i>

→………

On 12 April 1961, Gagarin became the first human <b>…(1)…</b>into space. His call sign in this flight was Kedr.During his flight,
Gagarin famously whistled the tune” The Motherland Hears, The Motherland Knows”.The first two <b>…(2)…</b>of the song are :”
The Motherland hears, the Motherland knows/Where her son flies in the sky”.This patriotic song was written by Shostakovich
in 1951, with words by Dolmatovsky.There are speculations in the media that from orbit Gagarin made the comment, “I don’t
see any God up here.” There are, however, no such words in the full verbatim record of Gagarin’s <b>…(3)…</b> with the Earth
during the spaceflight.In a 2006 interview a close friend of Gagarin, Petrov , stated that Gagarin never said such words, and
that the phrase originated from Khrushchev’s speech at the plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU,<b>…(4)…</b> the
antireligious propaganda was discussed . In a certain context Khrushchev said , “ Gagarin flew into space , but didn’t see any
God there”. As Gagarin was a great people’s favorite at the <b>…(5)…</b>, Khrushchec’s words were soon attributed to Gagarin for
them to be more effective.

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