10th form "The Road to the Stars" Reading / Grammar

1. Men began to think of space travel in the second century A. D. At that time, a Greek, Lucian of Samos, wrote a fantastic story about a man who ____ to the Moon by a storm.

2. In his second story about space, Lucian's hero flew to the Moon with a pair of wings which he _____ himself.

3. But for the next 1400 years, in the years of inquisition, people could not even think of ____ to the Moon.

4. About 300 years ago the famous Italian astronomer Galilei looked through his telescope and told people about the other worlds _____ he had seen. Again people began to think of reaching other planets.

5. In 1634, there appeared a story about a journey to the Moon by Johannes Kepler, the Germanb astronomer.He discovered _____ the planets moved around the Sun.

6. Kepler was a scientist but in his book his hero was carried to the Moon by "magic moon people" who could fly ____ space.

7. Kepler gave a detailed description of the Moon _____ he had seen through his telescope.

8. After Kepler's book, there were many _____ about space travel.

9. The first serious story of space travel ____ in 1640 by Bishop Wilkings of England.

10. He described physical conditions on the Moon and he also said about the ways in which man could ____ live on the Moon.

11. The first man _____ wrote about a rocket as a spaceship was the Frenchman, Cyrano de Bergerac. In his book his space travellers flew to the Moon and the Sun in the rocket.

12. Even though, those books were written, ____ had seriously thought about space travel by the middly of the 19th century.