English Exercises - Grade 11 Leâ Ngoïc Thaïch
UNIT 15: SPACE CONQUEST
A. PHONETICS
I. Circle the word whose underlined part is pronounced differently from that
of the other words.
1) A. stones B. learns C. phones D. tense
2) A. lifted B. lasted C. happened D. decided
3) A. speed C. person C. temperature D. psychology
II. Circle the word that has stress pattern different from that of the other
words.
4) A. uncertain B. technical C. attention D. attraction
5) A. psychology B. cosmonaut C. accident D. national
6) A. uncertainty B. satisfaction C. psychology D. approximate
B. VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR
* Circle the best answer for each sentence.
8) No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space. The
word “precisely” is closest in meaning to “____”.
A. nicely B. exactly C. rigidly D. roughly
9) Many spacemen could never get back to the Earth because of ___ accidents.
A. tragedy B. tragic C. tragically D. tragedies
10) He finds it difficult for him to recover from his son’s ____.
A. die B. dead C. deadly D. death
11) He failed again, which was a/an ____ disappointment.
A. enormous B. big C. wide D. large
12) The flight will take approximately three weeks. The word “approximately” is
closest in meaning to “____”.
A. closely B. exactly C. about D. precisely
13) How long did Yuri Gagarin’s trip into space ____? Only 180 minutes.
A. lengthen B. last C. late D. strengthen
14) When ____ astronaut travels into space, if a technical failure happens, he can
never get back to ____ Earth.

27) We didn’t eat here last week, ____ we?
A. didn’t B. did C. haven’t D. do
28) You have ever heard about Yuri Gagarin, ____?
A. do you B. haven’t you C. don’t you D. didn’t you
29) Jenny ____ leave the hospital only fours days after the operation.
A. was able to B. could C. can D. will be able to
30) At last, they ____ get through the mountain in such a heavy rain.
A. can B. could C. are able to D. were able to
C. READING * Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.
Until recently, you may only read in (31) ____ fiction that an ordinary person
could (32) ____ a trip into space. We have heard ideas about holidays to the Moon,
but these were just a story, and everyday flights into space seemed just a distant (33)
____ .Aspirations of space tourism are remembered in science fiction works such as
Arthur C. Clarke’s A Fall of Moondust and Islands of the Sky. But now, this fiction
could become achievable as major steps are being taken to make the dream (34)
____ traveling into space (35) ____ a practical reality. On 28 April 2001, Dennis Tito,
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English Exercises - Grade 11 Leâ Ngoïc Thaïch
(36) ____ millionaire, became the world’s first space (37) ____. Tito was (38) into
space onboard a Russian Soyuz capsule. He showed that anyone could make a space
journey. Five years on, scientists are attempting to shape the future in order to give
everyone a (39) ____ to fulfill their dreams of traveling into space, whether (40) ____
not they are millionaires.
31) A. science B. scientist C. scientific D. scientific
31) A. do B. take C. invent D. establish
33) A. views B. weightlessness C. actions D. possibility
34) A. in b. for C. of D. on
35) A. become B. to become C. became D. becoming
36) A. a B. an C. the D. Þ
37) A. cosmonaut B. astronaut C. tourist D. engineer