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WorksheetsVocabulary Exercise - The Moon Landing
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
July 20, 1969 becomes the historic date for USA that Apollo 11 astronauts ____ their foot on the moon.
put
lay
set
located
In July 1969, one of the most exciting and ground-breaking events of the 20th century took place. The synonym of exciting is ____.
heart-breaking
boring
astonishing
moderate
His historic words, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” are still quoted regularly to this day. The closest meaning of historic is ____.
memorable
antique
romantic
primeval
In the following years, several unmanned missions took photographs and samples of the moon’s surface. The underlined word can refer to the meanings below, except ____.
the uppermost layer of something
the flat top part of something
the superficial aspect of something
the internal part of something
The race took its first ever steps on our closest celestial neighbour, the moon.
Based on its part of speech, the word closest refers to ____.
adverbs
nouns
adjectives
prepositions
Based on the text, The United States of America had won the space ____ with The Soviet Union.
goal
race
aim
fight
He was determined that an American astronaut would walk on the moon before the end of the decade. Based on this sentence, the word American is a/an
adverb
adjective
noun
pronoun
After ____, from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on July 16th, the lunar module Eagle landed on the moon's surface.
to take off
to taking off
taking off
took off
Before commencing lunar orbit, the astronauts ____ (travelled) in space for three days.
tripped
fell
slept
followed
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” The antonym of giant is ___.
huge
massive
tremendous
tiny
