Cloze Test – Test 16

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally (21) for professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who (22) into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists. Starting in the 1950s up to 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. With the suborbital flight of the privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was (23): the commercial astronaut.</br> The criteria for what constitutes human spaceflight (24). The Federation Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) Sporting Code for astronautics (25) only flights that exceed an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 mi). In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 km) are awarded astronaut wings.

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally (21) for professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who (22) into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists. Starting in the 1950s up to 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. With the suborbital flight of the privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was (23): the commercial astronaut.</br> The criteria for what constitutes human spaceflight (24). The Federation Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) Sporting Code for astronautics (25) only flights that exceed an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 mi). In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 km) are awarded astronaut wings.

In the following passage, there are blanks, each of which has been numbered. Find out the appropriate word/phrase in each case.

An astronaut or cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally (21) for professional space travelers, the terms are sometimes applied to anyone who (22) into space, including scientists, politicians, journalists, and tourists. Starting in the 1950s up to 2002, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by the military or by civilian space agencies. With the suborbital flight of the privately funded SpaceShipOne in 2004, a new category of astronaut was (23): the commercial astronaut.</br> The criteria for what constitutes human spaceflight (24). The Federation Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) Sporting Code for astronautics (25) only flights that exceed an altitude of 100 kilometers (62 mi). In the United States, professional, military, and commercial astronauts who travel above an altitude of 50 miles (80 km) are awarded astronaut wings.