WIDER WORLD GROUP A
READING
A day in the life of a trainee astronaut
Read the artide and decide if the sentences
below are True or False. Put a cross (Xin the
contact place in the table.
It can take up to two years to train to be an
astronaut. After training, some ztronauts was for
ten years before they make their first nig into
space. So what's life like 23 a trainee astrona!
TRUE FALSE
1 Astronauts have ten years of
training before they go into space
2 Astronauts practise in real space
"We all learn how to use and zice care of the
complex equipment we use, so we have many
classes. These happen in a classroom, in machines
that are a bit like real space head in the
swimming pool. The swimming pool is very
similar to being in space bease you wag much
3 Working in a swimming pool is a
bike writing in space
Alastonauts tave to leam
cycing
6 Trainee astronauts have to me
in many different places.
"We also have to have language classes. My first
language is Japanese, but I have to learn English
and Russian too, so I can tak to the ground crew. I
have to be very fit so l exercise for about tree
hours a day. Many of my colleagues go running
together, but I prefer cycling on my own
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