Task 2. Read the text and mark the statements True (T), False (F). It was on the 12th of April, 1961. When the first flight by man into cosmic space took place Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut in the world, was a 27-year-old Air Force pilot at that time. The spaceship reached all the speed of 300 miles a minute. His flight lasted 108 minutes. The spaceship was a brilliant achievement of our scientists and technologists, and of Yuri Gagarin who risked his life to achieve a victory for his country and mankind. Yuri Gagarin said at the press conference: «On my night the day-side of the Earth was clearly seen: the continents, islands, seas, and big rivers. Flying over the land I could clearly see the big fields and it was possible to distinguish which was meadow and which was forest». 1. Yuri Gagarin was born on 12 April in 1961. 2. Yuri Gagarin was twenty-seven when he flew to the space for the first time. 3. Yuri Gagarin flew 300 miles from the Earth to the Moon. 4. It was difficult to distinguish forests and fields flying over the Earth. 5. Yuri Gagarin could not see the Moon, but he saw the stars. 6. Yuri Gagarin felt bad in space.

Сопоставляем утверждения с фактами из текста: полёт состоялся 12 апреля 1961 года; Гагарину тогда было 27 лет; сказано о скорости 300 миль в минуту, а не о расстоянии до Луны; поля и леса можно было различить.

1. F — 12 апреля 1961 года состоялся полёт, а не рождение Гагарина.
2. T — в тексте сказано, что Гагарину было 27 лет.
3. F — 300 миль в минуту — скорость, с которой летел корабль; в тексте не говорится, что Гагарин летел от Земли до Луны.
4. F — Гагарин различал поля и леса.
5. F — в тексте не сказано, что он не видел Луну или видел звёзды.
6. F — наоборот, Гагарин чувствовал себя прекрасно.

Ответ: 1 — F, 2 — T, 3 — F, 4 — F, 5 — F, 6 — F.