SPACE CONQUESTA. PHONETICSI. CIRCLE THE WORD WHOSE UNDERLINED PART IS...

30) At last, they ____ get through the mountain in such a heavy rain.

A. can B. could C. are able to D. were able to

C. READING * Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

Until recently, you may only read in (31) ____ fiction that an ordinary person could (32) ____ a trip into

space. We have heard ideas about holidays to the Moon, but these were just a story, and everyday flights into

space seemed just a distant (33) ____ .Aspirations of space tourism are remembered in science fiction works

such as Arthur C. Clarke’s A Fall of Moondust and Islands of the Sky. But now, this fiction could become

achievable as major steps are being taken to make the dream (34) ____ traveling into space (35) ____ a

practical reality. On 28 April 2001, Dennis Tito, (36) ____ millionaire, became the world’s first space (37)

____. Tito was (38) into space onboard a Russian Soyuz capsule. He showed that anyone could make a space

journey. Five years on, scientists are attempting to shape the future in order to give everyone a (39) ____ to

fulfill their dreams of traveling into space, whether (40) ____ not they are millionaires.