Listening test 15m

That announcement was made May 5, 1961. It was the first manned flight of project Mercury. Today, Tony Riggs and Larry West tell about the beginning of the United States space program that carried humans into space.
The United States entered the Space Age in 1945, at the end of World War Two. German rocket scientists, with the support of the German government, had spent fifteen years developing rockets as weapons. Near the end of the war, Germany began firing huge rocket bombs at Britain.
Called V-2 rockets, the German weapons carried a ton of explosives three hundred twenty kilometers. They flew as high as eighty kilometers.
When the war ended, American forces found the parts for about one hundred V-2 rockets. They brought the German rockets to America and launched sixty-six of them.
The army opened the V-2 launch program to American scientists at several universities. Civilian scientists used the V-2 rockets to study the Earth`s atmosphere. They gathered much new information and learned much about designing instruments for scientific rockets and satellites.
Many of Germany`s top rocket scientists came to the United States after the war. They worked with American scientists and engineers to develop and test new rockets for military and scientific use. In 1956, the United States launched a Jupiter military rocket that flew more than five thousand kilometers.






ENGLISH TEST ( 15minutes)
Name:__________________________________Class 11A__
Listen and decide whether the following statements are True( T) or False (F)
The announcement was made in 1961.
It was about the first manned flight of project Mercury.
The United States entered the Space Age in 1955.
German rocket scientists had spent 15 years developing rockets as weapons.
Near the end of the war, Germany began firing huge rocket bombs at Britain.
The German weapons carried a ton of explosives 212 kilometers.
V-2 rockets flew as high as eighty kilometers.
When the war ended, American forces found the parts for about 100 V-2 rockets.
They brought the German rockets to America.
American forces launched sixty-six of the rockets they found.
















ENGLISH TEST ( 15minutes)
Name:__________________________________Class 11A__
Listen and decide whether the following statements are True( T) or False (F)
The announcement was made on May 5.
It was about the first artificial flight of project Mercury.
The United States entered the Space Age at the end of World War One.
German rocket scientists had spent 50 years developing rockets as weapons.
They developed rockets as weapons with the support of the German government.
At the end of the war, Germany began firing huge rocket bombs at Britain.
The German weapons carried a ton of explosives 320 kilometers.
V-2 rockets flew as high as eighty kilometers.
When the war ended, American forces found the parts for about 200 V-2 rockets
They brought the German rockets to America.