영어1 YBM 박준언 5과 빈칸

Day 1 ____ to Space!

After blasting off from Earth, ____ took about 27 hours to reach the International Space Station, where we docked successfully.

This ____ my third journey into space.

After ten years, I’m back on ____ station, the largest artificial space habitat in orbit 400 kilometers away from Earth!

Day 5 The World with ____ Gravity

Now I’m getting better at remembering where I am when I first wake up, but ____ still often confused about how my body is positioned.

In the dark and without gravity, my inner ear ____ takes a random guess as to my position, and sometimes I wake up convinced that I’m upside down.

Of course, ____ actually my brain readjusting to an environment where height and weight lose their meaning.

I can use any wall equally as if ____ were a floor.

____ has zero weight.

This enables me not only to fly but also to lift huge objects with one finger as if I ____ a superhero.

Unfortunately, zero gravity also makes astronauts lose muscle and bone density ____ fast.

That’s why I ____ for 150 minutes a day as my colleagues do.

____ 25 Starting the Day

The station orbits Earth once every 90 minutes, and ____ sun rises and sets every 45 minutes.

However, our schedules are set to Greenwich Mean Time ____ Earth.

My day starts around 6:00 a.m. in my personal ____ which is about the size of a phone booth.

Still in my sleeping bag, ____ click through new emails and brush my teeth.

I swallow ____ toothpaste with a sip of water from a bag with a straw.

____ no good way to spit in space because everything floats.

Then, I look ____ the daily schedule sent by the flight control team on Earth.

After a meeting with the Earth team at 7:30, ____ start work.

____ minute of an astronaut’s day is planned by the Earth team.

My work ____ lots of scientific experiments and maintenance of the station.

My favorite experiment ____ growing basil from seeds as I film its growth every day.

Having green plants in space is a ____

Today’s mission required a spacewalk, one of the riskiest tasks on ____ ISS.

We had ____ install the bases for some newly developed solar batteries on the outside of the station.

Scott, my ____ and I went to an airlock, a room connected to the outside of the station, put on our spacesuits, and floated gently into space.

The large ____ dome of Earth hovered overhead, looking like it was ready to come crashing down upon us.

Forcing myself to focus on the ____ I secured the hook of my safety cable to a ring just outside the airlock.

We moved along the handrail to the edge of the ____

The dark void in ____ of us seemed endless.

Despite ____ safety cable, panic rose in me.

I thought, “If my hand misses the handrail, I will ____ into the void.”

The ____ seemed to take forever, but I finally managed to install the battery bases.

When I turned ____ head, the bright blue Earth was still there.

In ____ middle of darkness, its beauty was beyond description.

Day ____ One Day Left

I’ll return ____ Earth tomorrow.

If getting up into space is alarming and uncomfortable, coming back down is one of the most ____ and physically harsh things an astronaut ever does.

Back on Earth, ____ miss lots of things here.

I’ll miss the satisfaction of successfully finishing an experiment or a challenging task like a ____

I’ll especially miss my basil plants, whose leaves have become ____ dense forest!

All the same, I’ll never forget how lucky we are to have that ____ blue planet as our home.

Mother Earth didn’t exactly welcome us back ____ open arms.

Earth’s atmosphere is resistant to objects entering from ____

Any object will create enough friction simply to burn up ____ the heat.

This protects the planet from the orbital debris that would otherwise rain ____ on it.

But ____ also meant we had to survive a fall through the atmosphere that created temperatures up to 1650 degrees Celsius.

After pushing our spaceship away from the station, we ____ our way into the upper layers of the atmosphere to start our descent.

We ____ gravity begin to return.

My watch felt a lot heavier on my ____ and breathing got harder.

The capsule heated up, and orange and purple flaming ____ flew by the window, which was scorched black.

We were falling faster than the speed of ____

Once we got inside the ____ about eight kilometers above the planet, a parachute caught us with a sudden halt and dragged and swung our capsule wildly through the sky until we hit the ground.

It’s hard to describe ____ heavy everything felt in those first few minutes after landing.

My arms ____ terribly heavy, and so did my legs.

Getting ____ to gravity, which I missed in space, will take quite a long time.

The important thing is I’m ____

I can smell the grass and feel the wind ____ the rain!

I’ll remember how magical these things ____ for the rest of my life.