topic 29 : Space Conquest Quiz

Gagarin served as the deputy training director of the Cosmonaut Training Centre, which was__________named after him.

• subsequently

• consequently

• eloquently

• frequently

The astronaut was in orbit around the Earth at a__________of more than 17,000 miles per hour.

• pace

• speed

• space

• expense

No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space as well as how the mind would deal with the psychological__________?

• pressure

• stress

• tension

• changes

How would the body react to the__________changes in temperature?

• severe

• sudden

• extreme

• rapid

On 21 December, 1968 the United States__________Apollo 8 from the Kennedy Space Center.

• started

• launched

• controlled

• took off

The astronauts on board, Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders, were the first humans to__________to the moon.

• pay a visit

• break their journey

• journey

• take a trip

The craft__________the moon ten times and sent television pictures of its surface back to Earth.

• circled

• rounded

• surrounded

• orbited

Six hours after a successful__________on the moon, Neil Armstrong was ready to leave the Eagle.

• grounding

• landing

• staying

• traveling

Neil Armstrong wore the special__________and heavy boots. He placed his foot on the moon's surface and that's one small step for a man, one giant__________for mankind.

• space-suit/jump

• space-clothes/leap

• space-suit/leap

• space-clothes/jump

The exploration of Mars is being carried out by means of__________

• satellites

• shuttle

• plane

• spacecraft