摘要: first manned flight

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China's first astronaut 38-year-old Yang Liwei returned safely to earth Thursday morning, when his craft Shenzhou 5 touched down as scheduled after more than 21 hours in the earth's orbit. Chinese premier Wen Jiabao called the landmark debut flight a “complete success.”The descent capsule (返回舱) carrying Lt. Col. Yang Liwei touched down on the grasslands of the Gobi Desert, in central Inner Mongolia at 6.23 a. m. Thursday (Beijing Time), the Beijing-based China's Aerospace Command and Control Center said. Minutes later, Yang grabbed the capsule hatch with his hand, pulled himself out, smiled and waved at recovery teams and reporters. It is a splendid moment in the history of my motherland and also the greatest day of my life,Yang, a former fighter pilot from Northeast China's Liaoning Province, said immediately after emerging. In an interview with CCTV, China's state television, Yang said he was “feeling excellent”. Shenzhou 5 landed at dawn,4.8 kilometers (3 miles) from its designed landing target, the officials said. “The spaceship operated well,”the astronaut Yang Liwei said in his first publicized comments. I feel very good and I am proud of my motherland.After a physical exam on spot, Yang’s condition was found as good.Li Jinai, the commander of China's manned space program, called Yang a space hero and anational hero. Following Yang's touchdown, China's premier Wen Jiabao immediately spoke to Yang from Beijing's command and control center and offered his congratulations.

   Within hours, Chinese space officials announced that the country's space dreams will continue with a “Shenzhou 6”missionmost possibly within a yearThey said China also had worked out plans to conduct space walking by its astronautsand eventually build up a space stationHowever, Chinese scientists ruled out building a space shuttlelike the United States

   Yang's flight came four decades after the former Soviet Union and the United States pioneered manned spaceflightSoviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin orbited the Earth in April 1961One month laterthe United States launched  Alan BShepard Jr

1. What is true of the first Chinese astronaut Yang Liwei?

  AHe is now a flight pilot

  BHe was helped to get out of the descent capsule

  CHe spent nearly a day in space

  DHe was called a“space hero”and a “national hero”by China's premier Wen Jiabao

2. China will carry out the following space programs in the near future except_________.

Aspace walking

Bsetting up a space station

Cbuilding up a space shuttle

Dsending up “Shenzhou 6”

3. The underlined word debut means_________.

Afirst public appearance  Bspace

Ccarrying person      Dspaceship

4. Which of the following is NOT true?

  ASoviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man in the world to travel in space

  B. The United States launched Alan BShepard Jr.  about 43 years ago

  CChina is the third country in the world to carry out the manned space flight successfully

  D“Shenzhou 6”will carry more than one astronaut in the mission

 

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