영어1 YBM 박준언 5과 빈칸

Day 1 ____ to Space!

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

This is my ____ journey into space.

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

Day ____ The World with No Gravity

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

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

Of ____ it’s actually my brain readjusting to an environment where height and weight lose their meaning.

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

Everything has ____ weight.

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

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

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

Day 25 ____ Starting the Day

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

____ our schedules are set to Greenwich Mean Time on Earth.

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

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

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

There’s no ____ way to spit in space because everything floats.

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

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

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

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

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

Having green plants in space is a ____

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

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

Scott, ____ colleague, 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 blue dome ____ Earth hovered overhead, looking like it was ready to come crashing down upon us.

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

We moved along the handrail to the edge of the ____

The dark ____ in front of us seemed endless.

Despite ____ safety cable, panic rose in me.

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

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

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

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

Day ____ One Day Left

I’ll return to Earth ____

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

Back on Earth, I’ll miss lots of ____ here.

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

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

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

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

Earth’s atmosphere is resistant to objects entering ____ space.

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

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

But it also meant we had to survive a ____ 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 wrist, and ____ got harder.

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

We ____ falling faster than the speed of sound.

Once we got inside the atmosphere 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 ____

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

My arms felt terribly heavy, and so did my ____

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

The ____ thing is I’m home.

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

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