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enShuttle: Multiple Choice Grammar Test
Space shuttle Endeavour and (1) _________ seven astronauts safely returned to the Earth on Sunday. Endeavour touched down in California, finishing up a (2) _________ . The space (3) _________ journey, short by comparison, covered 6.6 (4) _________ miles and 250 orbits of the Earth.
«Welcome back. That was a great way to finish a fantastic flight», Mission Control radioed. «And we’re happy (5) _________ here in California», shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson replied.
(6) _________ home from a six-month mission was former space station resident Gregory Chamitoff, who (7) _________ away from the planet at the end of May.
Although NASA always prefers to land the space shuttles at its home base in Florida, and that’s where the (8) _________ families were waiting, but the crosswind at the Florida landing strip was too strong, and thunderstorms moved in. (9) _________ outlook was just as depressing; so NASA officials said it would make no sense (10) _________ Endeavour in orbit an extra day if the weather (11) _________ to improve in Florida. As Endeavour passed over Houston, home to Mission Control, Ferguson could see all the bad weather in Florida.
«I think you (12) _________ a right decision», he radioed.
It took about a week and (13) _________ $1.8 million to transport a shuttle from California to Florida.
| A | B | C | D | |
| 1 | it | it’s | its | its’ |
| 2 | 16-day trips | 16th-day trip | 16-days trip | 16-day trip |
| 3 | shuttle’s | shuttles | shuttles’ | shuttle |
| 4 | million’s | millionth | million | millions |
| 5 | to being | to be | be | being |
| 6 | Having returned | Being return | Returned | Have returning |
| 7 | has rocketed | had rocketed | rocketed | have rocketed |
| 8 | astronauts | astronauts’s | astronaut’s | astronauts’ |
| 9 | Mondays | Monday | Monday’s | Monday’ |
| 10 | to keep | keeping | keep | to be kept |
| 11 | didn’t expect | hadn’t expected | was not expected | expected |
| 12 | make | has made | made | did |
| 13 | cost | costing | has cost | was costing |
1.C; 2.D; 3.A; 4.C; 5.B; 6.A; 7.B; 8.D; 9.C; 10.A; 11.C; 12.C; 13.A
