Trắc nghiệm Tiếng Anh 8 Global Success Unit 11 Kĩ năng đọc đục lỗ (có đáp án)

What is NASA?

Would you like to be an explorer? Would you like to help with future missions to other planets and outer space? Then maybe you should work for NASA. NASA is an (1) ................... It is a word formed from the (2) ................... letters of other words. N.A.S.A. stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA is in charge (3) ................... exploring space. This U.S. agency was started in 1958. At that time, the United States and the Soviet Union were in a space (4) ................... Each country, wanted to be the first to explore space and to (5) ...................a man on the moon. The Soviet Union won a victory (6) ................... September 13, 1959. Its Luna 2 was the first man-made (7) ................... to land on the moon. NASA won the final victory on July 20, 1969, when the astronauts from Apollo 11 were the first people to (8) ................... on the moon.

Why does Man want to go to other planets (1)_______ the solar system? Just for adventure? True, it is (a/an) (2) ________ in space travel.  But a (3) __________to other planets would also be (4) __________. For example, space stations could be built that would give us (5) ____________information about the weather. In space stations (6) ___________around the earth, Man could live and study the cloud formation on (7) ________surface. These formations could help us (8) ________the weather in any part of the world at any time. Such information would be (9) ______ to pilots, to ship captains, and even to farmers who must set dates for planting and (10) ________.