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