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Complete the summary of the reading passage by putting the words/ phrases in the box into the blanks. (Hoàn thành bản tóm tắt của bài đọc bằng cách đặt các từ/ cụm từ trong bảng vào chỗ trống.)

Impossible             named after           lasted                         gravity

Success                  view                      in space                     cosmonaut

Answer

On 12 ^th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Russian (1) cosmonau t became the first human being (2) in space . Although his flight (3) lasted only 108 minutes, its (4) success made him become a national hero. He also became the first person to eat and drink in zero (5) gravity , and he was able to (6) view the Earth in a way that no one had done before. Unfortunately, plane crash in March 1968 made Gagarin's desire of revisiting space (7) impossible . After his death, his hometown and the Cosmonaut Training: Centre at Star City, Russia were (8) named after him.