LLV - PI3 - Handout 6.3 - Mini Test - Ex.1

1. No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space. The word “precisely” is closest in meaning to “____”.

• nicely

• exactly

• rigidly

• roughly

Many spacemen could never get back to the Earth because of ___ accidents.

• tragedy

• tragic

• tragically

• tragedies

He finds it difficult for him to recover from his son’s ____.

• die

• dead

• deadly

• death

He failed again, which was a/an ____ disappointment.

• enormous

• big

• wide

• large

The flight will take approximately three weeks. The word “approximately” is closest in meaning to “____”.

• closely

• exactly

• about

• precisely

How long did Yuri Gagarin’s trip into space ____? Only 180 minutes.

• lengthen

• last

• late

• strengthen

When ____ astronaut travels into space, if a technical failure happens, he can never get back to ____

• an - the

• x - an

• an - x

• the - x

Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on ____ moon.

• a

• an

• the

• x

Everybody congratulated the astronauts ___ their successful trip into space.

• on

• for

• of

• in

Yuri Gagarin became the first man to travel into space ___ April 12^th, 1961.

• at

• on

• in

• from