Task 1. Read the text and fill in the sentences with the information from the text. Write no more than two words OR/AND a number.
Astronaut Sally Ride
       When Sally Ride was just 9 years old, her family toured Europe for entire year and then returned home to Encino, California. Once back at school, Sally wanted to be a winner in sports and at school. In her teens, she was a champion Junior Tennis Player. She was ranked number eighteen among the best young tennis players in the country when she was 18.
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       Sally always liked studying science. When she went to college, she studied astrophysics.
Astrophysics is the science of stars and planets. She liked great literature too. She graduated from
college with two degrees. The other degrees was in English. She stayed longer in college and
become Dr. Sally Ride. She was a specialist in astrophysics.
       Sally was interested in joining NASA as an astronaut. She was chosen as one of six women in the
astronaut class in 1978. She studied at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. She learned
how to fly military jets as part of her training.
In 1982 Sally Ride was selected to go on the second challenger space flight. She would be the first
       American woman to go into space. Sally ride spent six days in space orbiting the earth . Later Sally
        Ride said, “the thing that I’ll remember most about the flight is that it was fun. In fact, I’m sure it
was the most fun that I will ever have fun in my life.”
 
1. Sally was_______ when she became one of the best young tennis players in the USA.
2. ______ is one of Sally Ride’s favourite subjects.
3. Sally was engaged in learning astrophysics in _______.
4. She was a specialist in________.
5. She learned to control _________in Houston.
6. Sally spent _________ in space flying around the earth.
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