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On Oct. 16, 2016, Chinese astronauts of the Shenzhou-11 mission (任务), Jing Haipeng and Chen Dong, met the press(新闻发布会)Sunday ahead of Monday’s launch.
Sitting under a national flag, the astronauts _______ in good spirits and answered several questions.
“_______ the job is challenging, risky and dangerous, there is nothing more I would rather do,” Jing Haipeng, 50, who is commander of this mission, told reporters. It will be Jing’s _______ spaceflight following his Shenzhou-7 mission in September 2008 and Shenzhou-9 mission in March 2012.
On Monday, China successfully launched (发射) manned spacecraft Shenzhou-11 carrying the two astronauts who will remain in space for 33 days. The spacecraft was sent up at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in _______ China’s Gobi desert at 7: 30 am. Beijing time Monday with a Long March-2F Y11 carrier rocket. The spacecraft has entered its designated orbit (轨道). The launch _______ a success by Zhang Youxia, about 19 minutes after the blast-off (发射).
Three weeks before the task, the family members of Jing Haipeng and ChenDong still knew nothing. Chen Dong has been a (an) _______ for many years before joining the space team. He and his wife now have a pair of five-year-old twin sons. One-month mission is not the longest time that Chen _______ away from home. When he was a pilot , he once did not come back home for half a year during a mission.
Chen Dong described the experience as “no seeing, no _______.” But with the help of Virtual Reality (虚拟现实) (VR) technology, astronauts will meet their family during free time. “If I see them (family members) , it will be different somehow,” Chen said.
For Jing, he looks very calm. In his first space mission on Shenzhou VII, his wife was so nervous _______ she almost did not sleep during those three days. Now that it is his third, his wife has ________ it.
【小题1】A.met | B.came | C.appeared | D.stood |
【小题2】A.Until | B.Although | C.Because | D.But |
【小题3】A.first | B.second | C.third | D.fourth |
【小题4】A.northwest | B.southwest | C.northeast | D.southeast |
【小题5】A.was told | B.was announced | C.was spoken | D.was said |
【小题6】A.astronaut | B.engineer | C.pilot | D.scientist |
【小题7】A.has stayed | B.left | C.has left | D.stayed |
【小题8】A.listening | B.watching | C.noticing | D.missing |
【小题9】【小题10】A.got used to | B.used to | C.been used for | D.been used by |