Task 2. Read the passage again and answer the questions. (Đọc kĩ đoạn văn một lần nữa và trả lời các câu hỏi.)

1. How old was Gagarin when he became the first human being in space?

( Gagarin bao nhiêu tuổi lúc trở thành người đầu tiên bay vào vũ trụ? )

2. How long was he in space?

( Anh ấy ở trong vũ trụ bao lâu? )

3. What questions were raised before Gasarin's space flight?

( Trước chuyến bay vào vũ trụ của Gagarin, người ta đã nêu lên những vấn đề gì? )

4. What was the speed of his spacecraft in orbit around the Earth?

( Vận tốc chiếc tàu vũ trụ của anh là bao nhiêu khi ở trong quỹ đạo bay vòng quanh trái đất? )

5. Why couldn’t Gagarin make a new space flight?

( Tại sao Gagarin đã không thực hiện một chuyến bay khác vào vũ trụ? )

6. What was done after Gagarin's death to honour this national hero?

( Người ta đã làm gì sau cái chết của Gagarin để tuyên dương anh ấy là anh hùng dân tộc? )

Answer

1. He was 27 years old.

2. He was in space for 108 minutes.

3. They were what would happen to a human being in space or how the body would react to the extreme changes in temperature or how the mind would deal with the psycholigical tension.

4. It was more than 17.000 miles per hour.

5. Because he died in a plane crash on a routine training flight in March 1968.

6. After his death, his hometown of Gzhatsk was renamed Gagarin, and the Cosmonaut Trainins Center at Star City, Russia, was given the name of this national hero.