Yang Liwei was born in an ordinary family in Liaoning Province in 1965. He became a pilot of the Chinese Air Force in 1987. He 【小题1】 (spend) 1350 hours in the air. It took him five years to 【小题2】(become) a spaceman. Yang Liwei was 【小题3】(send up) into space by China’s ShenzhouⅤat 9 a.m. 【小题4】 October 15th, 2003. It moved around the earth fourteen times. He came back 【小题5】 (safe) at 6:23 a.m. the next day, making China the third country to successfully send a person into space after the former Soviet Union (前苏联) 【小题6】the USA. Yang Liwei returned to the earth after a 【小题7】(21小时) trip to space. In space, Yang not only recorded 【小题8】 (thing) he saw, but also showed China’s national flag and the United Nation's flag to the people who watch on TV 【小题9】 home.

All of the Chinese people are 【小题10】 of our first spaceman — Yang Liwei.