Question

On April 12, 1961, Major Yuri Gagarin became the first man ever to venture into the

space. He did not know for certain beforehand that he chosen. The Russians had

three possible candidates ready and although Gagarin was first on the list, the choice

was not definitely made until the early morning of April 12 All candidates had undergone strenuous training periods. They had wont long

sessions in the pressure chamber and the centrifuger. They had endured violent

extremes of sensation : a peaceful sleep, for instance, suddenly followed by an hour

of ear-shattering noise, recorded on tape and amplified through enormous

loudspeakers in an enclosed room. Perhaps the worst of the ordeals was to be shut in

a darkened room for long, uncertain periods, in solitary confinement and complete

silence. Gagarin himself has described the experience.

"There was no sound, not even the slightest rustle. No movement of the air, nothing.

It was uncanny', unnerving?." He would shut his eyes and imagine himself in a

space-cabin in orbit, looking at the world passing beneath him; or sometimes he

would recite half remembered poetry to himself. Then came parachute training.

Gagarin made forty parachute jumps of gradually increasing difficulty.

One of the most interesting of the training experiments was the method of providing

experience of weightlessness. In the early stages the express lift of the great Moscow

University building was used. From the twenty-eighth floor to the bottom allowed a

drop of 500 feet. At a certain high speed the passenger would find himself suspended

between the floor and the ceiling of the lift without support. This was a convenient

and inexpensive way of reproducing “zero gravity'. Special air brakes prevented the

lift from crashing as it reached the bottom.

On the morning of April 12, Gagarin rose at 5.30. He was zipped into his

complicated space suit, on top of which went a pale blue fibre suit and finally an

orange one. Then an Air Force bus drove him to the launching site in company with

various helpers. The lift took him up 100 feet to the nose of the rocket, and he

entered the cabin (named Vostok) with a wave to those below.

While he sat in the cabin, the technicians swarmed around the rocket on their

prefight tasks. A careful check of all the instrument and safety devices took ninety

minutes. Finally Gagrain was told that all was ready.

“Right – let’s go on up”.

These were his last words before the flight.

(a) On the basis of your reading of the above passage make notes on it, using

headings and sub-headings. Use recognizable abbreviations where necessary

(minimum 4) and a format your consider suitable. Also supply an appropriate

title to its.
(b) Write a summary of the above passage in above 80-100 words.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The following passage has not been edited. There is an error in each

of these lines. Write the correct and incorrect word in your answer

sheet against the correct blank numbers. The first one has been done!

for you:

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In April 12, 1961, Major Yuri Gagarin

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become the first man ever to venture

into space. He did not knew for certain

before hand that he is to be chosen.

A Russians had three possible candidates

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ready. She was the first on the list.

His name was finally confirm after many

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hours of discussion.

Explanation: