Reading unit 15

At 9.07 a.m. Moscow time on 12th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin ________ the Vostok 1. _______ 12 minutes later, the first human _______ around the Earth at ______ more than ________. His flight ______.

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The 27-year-old Soviet _______ became the first person to eat and drink ____. From his window in space, Gagarin _____ the earth in a way that ________ before. The first words _______ were: "I see the Earth. It’s so beautiful!"

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Before Gagarin’s ____, there were ________. No one ______ what would happen to a human being in space. How would the body ______ in temperature? How would ______ the ____? If there was _______, Gagarin might never get back to the Earth.

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The ____ of Gagarin’s flight ________ and made him a hero. In a _____ to Moscow, U.S. President John F. Kennedy wrote: "The people of the United States share with the people of the Soviet Union their ______ for ________in man's first ______ space. We congratulate you and the Soviet scientists and _____ who made ______. ..."

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Gagarin could have made _____ space flight if _______ had not _____. He died in _______ on __________ in March 1968. After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk ______ Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Training Centre at Star City, Russia, ______ the name of this ____ hero.

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