영어1 YBM 박준언 5과 빈칸

Day 1 Back ____ Space!

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

This ____ my third journey into space.

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

____ 5 The World with No Gravity

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

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

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

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

Everything has ____ weight.

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

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

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

Day 25 ____ Starting the Day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Having green plants in space is a ____

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

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

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

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

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

We moved along the handrail to the ____ of the station.

The dark void in front of ____ seemed endless.

Despite the ____ cable, panic rose in me.

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

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

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

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

____ 99 One Day Left

I’ll return to ____ tomorrow.

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

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

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

____ especially miss my basil plants, whose leaves have become a dense forest!

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

Mother Earth ____ exactly welcome us back with open arms.

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

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

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

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

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

We felt gravity begin to ____

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

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

We were falling faster than the speed ____ 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 ____ capsule wildly through the sky until we hit the ground.

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

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

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

The important thing ____ I’m home.

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

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