Answer the following questions :
(a) Why has Valentina Tereshkova been described as 'proletaria'?
(b) What do you know about Tereshkova's early life?
(c) What led to the selection of Tereshkova as a cosmonaut?
(d) Describe the trainings Tereshkova had to undergo to prepare herself for the flight.
(e) When and how was Vostok-6 launched?
(a) Valentina Tereshkova has been described as "proletaria" because she came from a working-class background, with her father being a tractor driver and her mother working in a textile plant.
(b) Tereshkova was born in a village in Central Russia on March 6, 1937. Her early schooling was not enjoyable, and she left school after a few years. She later completed her education through distance learning. She became interested in parachuting from a young age and began training in skydiving at the local Aeroclub.
(c) Tereshkova was selected as a cosmonaut due to her expertise in skydiving. After Yuri Gagarin's historic flight, the Soviet Union decided to send a woman into space, and Tereshkova's experience in parachuting made her a suitable candidatE-
(d) Tereshkova had to undergo a series of training sessions, including weightless flights, isolation tests, centrifuge tests, rocket theory, spacecraft engineering, 120 parachute jumps, and pilot training in MiG- 15UTI jet fighters.
(e) Vostok-6 was launched on June 16,11963. Tereshkova and her back-up cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in space-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad. After completing communication and life support checks, Tereshkova was sealed inside Vostok-6, which launched faultlessly after a two-hour countdown
- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.He (Jerry) sat by the fire with mE-... and told me of their two days together. The dog lay close to him and found a comfort there that I did not have for him.... "He stayed right with me," he told me, "except when he ran in the laurel.... There was a place where the grass was high and I lay down in it and hid. I could hear Pat hunting for mE-... When he found me he acted crazy, and he ran around and around me, in circles." We watched the flames. "That's an apple log," he said. "It burns the prettiest of any wood." We were very closE- He was suddenly impelled to speak. "You look a little bit like my mother," he said. "Especially in the dark, by the firE-" "But you were only four, Jerry, when you came herE- You have remembered how she looked, all these years?" "My mother lives in Mannville," he said. For a moment, finding that he had a mother shocked mE-.. I did not know why it disturbed mE- Then I understood my distress. I was filled with a passionate resentment that any woman should go away and leave her son. ... A son like this one - The orphanage was a wholesome place, the food was more than adequate, the boys were healthy... . Granted, perhaps, that the boy felt no lack, what blood fed the bowels of a woman who did not yearn over this child's lean body that had come in parturition out of her own? ... "Have you seen her, Jerry - lately?" I asked. "I see her every summer. She sends for mE-" I wanted to cry out. "Why are you not with her? How can she let you go away again?" He said, "She comes up here from Mannville whenever she can. She doesn't have a job now." His face shone in the firelight. "She wanted to give me a puppy, but they can't let any one boy keep a puppy. You remember the suit I had on last Sunday?" He was plainly proud. "She sent me that for Christmas. The Christmas before that" - he drew a long breath, savoring the memory - "she sent me a pair of skates.... I let the other boys use them, but they're careful ofthem."
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- Spending money may make us..
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- Read the passage and answer the questions A and B.Valentina Tereshkova was born in a village, in Central Russia on 6 March 1937. Her father was a tractor driver and her mother worked in a textile plant. At the age of eight she began her schooling but did not enjoy it much. She left the school within a few years. Afterwards she completed her education through distance learning. She became interested in parachuting from a young age, and trained in skydiving at the local Aeroclub, making her first jump at age 22 on 21 May 1959. At the time, she was employed as a textile worker in a local factory. It was her expertise in skydiving that led to her selection as a cosmonaut. After the flight of Yuri Gagarin, the first human being to travel to outer space in April 1961, the Soviet Union decided to send a woman in spacE- On 16 February 1962, "proletaria" Valentina Tereshkova was selected for this project from among more than four hundred applicants. Tereshkova had to undergo a series of training that included weightless flights, isolation tests, centrifuge tests, rocket theory, spacecraft engineering, 120 parachute jumps and pilot training in MiG-15UTI jet fighters. Since the successful launch of the spacecraft Vostok-5 on 14 June 1963, Tereshkova began preparing for her own flight. On the morning of 16 June 1963, Tereshkova and her back-up cosmonaut Solovyova were dressed in space-suits and taken to the space shuttle launch pad by a bus. After completing her communication and life support checks, she was sealed inside Vostok-6. Finishing a two- hour countdown, Vostok-6 launched faultlessly.
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- When does a man dream a dream?
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- Size don't matter, chopping wood. Here the word 'chopping' is - -
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