Упр.3 Юнит 3 Step 8 ГДЗ Rainbow English 9 класс
Read the text and complete the sentences after it.
Space Exploration
People often think that the age of space exploration began with the first spaceships in the 1950s and 1960s, though in fact, astronomers had been exploring the universe long before the beginning of space flights. Galileo made the first optical telescope used for astronomy in 1609. Later scientists got a lot more information about the solar system and its planets with the help of interplanetary probes, space capsules that carry special equipment and send information back to the Earth. From the beginning of the space age, both the Soviet Union and the United States were active in the exploration of the solar system. Both countries had their own space programmes, competing with each other. Both countries sent their probes to the Moon, to Venus, Mars and, later, to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Anyhow the real breakthrough in space exploration was the beginning of manned space flights. The first manned flight took place on April 12th, 1961, when Yuri Gagarin went into orbit in the Soviet Vostok 1 spaceship and proved that man could survive in space. At the same time the USA carried on its Moon exploration programme and in 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. In 1975 the USSR and the USA completed the first space experiment together. The future of space exploration seems to be connected with cooperative work in space. People’s wish to know about the world around us will never be satisfied and we can get the best results if we do this hard work together.
The age of space exploration began before the first space flights.
- a) before
- b) with
- c) after
Interplanetary probes collect and transmit information.
- a) produce and collect
- b) collect and transmit
- c) produce and transmit
At the beginning the USSR and the USA worked in the field of space exploration individually.
- a) together
- b) individually
- c) with the help of other countries
A manned flight is a flight in which the spaceship is operated by astronauts or cosmonauts.
- a) people on Earth
- b) robots
- c) astronauts or cosmonauts
Leonov’s flight was memorable because he was the first man to stay in outer space.
- a) to wear a special spacesuit
- b) to become a copilot
- c) to stay in outer space
American astronauts reached the Moon before Russian cosmonauts.
- a) before
- b) together with
- c) after
It seems that in the future people of different countries will unite for space exploration.
- a) unite
- b) do more work
- c) be thanked
1) a) before — the text says that astronomers had been exploring the universe long before the beginning of space flights.
2) b) collect and transmit — interplanetary probes send information back to the Earth.
3) b) individually — at first the USSR and the USA had their own space programmes and competed with each other.
4) c) astronauts or cosmonauts — a manned flight is operated by people in the spaceship.
5) c) to stay in outer space — Leonov’s flight was memorable because he was the first man to stay in outer space.
6) a) before — American astronauts reached the Moon before Russian cosmonauts.
7) a) unite — the text says that the future of space exploration is connected with cooperation work in space.
