SPACE CONQUESTA. PRONUNCIATIONI. CHOOSE THE WORD WHOSE UNDERLINED PART...

26. You’re Cynthia, …………..you?

A. aren’t B. are C. didn’t D. were

C. READING

Read the passage and choose one correct answer for each question.

Space travel is hard on people bodies. Spending long amounts of time in space

makes bones and muscles weak. It hard to eat in space. It hard to sleep and take

showers. Scientists use space stations to study how people can live and work in

space. Space stations orbit around the earth. The Soviets sent up several space

stations. The first, Salyut 1, was launched in 1971. the first US space station, Skylab,

was launched in 1973. the most famous Soviet space station was Mir, which orbit

Earth from 1986 to 2001. Astronauts from many countries visited Mir. Many of them

performed experiments on the space station. They leaned many things living and

working in space.

In the late 1990s, many nations worked together to build an International Space

Station. The space shuttle carried parts of the station into space. Astronauts put the

pieces together. The International Space Station was scheduled to be completed by