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Mark Shuttleworth is just 28 years old.He is about to feel out of this world.On April 22, Shuttleworth, who is a South African Internet millionaire, will set off for a dream trip to the International Space Station (ISS).
Taking a Russian Soyuz rocket, Shuttleworth will become the world's second “space tourist”.Last April, wealthy Californian businessman Dennis Tito, who was 60, paid Russia US $ 20 million for an eight-day trip to ISS.
By the time he leaves for ISS, Shuttleworth will have had about eight months of full-time training.“The training has been excellent,” Shuttleworth said from the Star City training centre just outside Moscow, Russia.
“The training includes weightlessness and centrifuge (离心分离机) training, as well as learning how to use communications and control systems,” he said.Shuttleworth hates being called a tourist.He said he will take responsibility (责任) for radio and life support systems in the capsule (太空舱).He will carry out three experiments in space for South Africa.And he hopes to educate young people about space.“The task is causing excitement among scientists and school children I am very satisfied that it is worthwhile,” Shuttleworth said.
Shuttleworth will be met by astronauts at the Space Station.Among them is American Daniel Bursch.Living in space for more than a month now, Bursch already misses some of the simple pleasures of Earth.In space he cannot, for example, enjoy taking a breath of fresh air on a winter morning.
“My family is probably the number one thing I miss like the children coming into my room and waking me up,” Bursch said last month in a space-to-ground interview.Bursch, who is the Father of four children, landed at the station last December along with two co-workers.They will be on duty there for five and a half months.
“We have a mixture of Russian and US food.It's excellent,” Bursch said.“But of course it would be nice to have a hotdog and a beer!”
1.How long will Shuttleworth stay at the International Space Station?
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A.About eight months.
B.Eight days.
C.Five months and a half.
D.The passage doesn't tell us.
2.Shuttleworth will be working with ________ in the space capsule.
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A.Dennis Tito
B.Russian astronauts
C.another three astronauts
D.scientists and school children
3.Shuttleworth does not like people calling him a tourist because ________.
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A.he is a South African Internet millionaire
B.his trip will help educate young people about space
C.he has learned how to use communications and control systems
D.he thinks his trip to space is more than sightseeing
4.What Bursch misses most is that________.
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A.he cannot have a hotdog and a beer
B.he is so far away from his family
C.he cannot breathe fresh air on a winter morning
D.he has nobody to wake him up
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