Тренировочный тест 3. ОГЭ (Английский язык)

A. The International Space Station is a large spacecraft. It orbits around Earth. It is a home where astronauts live. The space station is also a science laboratory. Many countries worked together to build it. They also work together to use it. The space station is made of many pieces. The pieces were put together in space by astronauts. NASA uses the station to learn about living and working in space.

B. The traditional prelaunch breakfast for NASA astronauts began with Alan Shepard. Alan had steak and eggs for breakfast, the day of his flight, so most astronauts do today. Steak and eggs are a good choice not just because it's tasty, but also because it is low residue (produces less waste that the astronaut will have to dispose of, later). However, they can have whatever they want. Mike Fincke, for example, had lobster and a baked potato before his flight.

C. Over the years, there have been several crazy proposals for space study. Some people believe we'll travel around our solar system until we learn as many details about it as we know about our own planet right now. We'll place a few manned scientific outposts in places like the Moon, Mars, and the atmosphere of Venus. Someone like Elon Musk may try to start an actual colony.

D. A little more than a year after the end of World War II, a team of soldiers and scientists gathered in the desert of New Mexico to launch a V-2 missile with a camera on it. As Thomas Ulrich mentioned, the first images of Earth from space were captured on this camera on October 24, 1946. Some more astounding pictures were taken during the Small Steps program in 1948.

E. Being an astronaut is an incredibly inspiring, useful, and important job. If you want to work as an astronaut, you must be extremely biologically stable, meaning you can't have diseases that can't be easily controlled. You need to be in very good shape, too. In saying this I do not want you to give up! If you do your best and don't give up, you can come close to being an astronaut.

F. There are three meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. However, drinks and snacks are always available. Nutritionists ensure the food astronauts eat provides them with a balanced supply of vitamins and minerals. Some foods can be eaten in their natural forms: brownies, fruits, etc. Pasta, cheese, and others require adding water. An oven is available in the space station, but there is no refrigerator.

Drawing cartoons has been Andy's hobby forever. She would make cards for friends and family or just draw cartoons. But mostly she worked as a writer as her job until one of her friends who worked for American Girl Magazine had an idea about this humour book about breastfeeding. And she wanted Andy to do the drawings.

When creating her cartoons Andy keeps track of all her ideas and the things she's observing in her own life. There's a cartoon about emptying the trash and doing the dishes. There's another one she did about the sounds that family members make because she was hearing them herself. Once she heard a couple of people talking about buying a sofa, and she went online with a cartoon about it.

When people comment on Andy's cartoons, she'll get ideas from that as well. She usually scrolls through the comments with another window open. She has her computer open and she's just typing in more and more ideas of the comments below the cartoon.
Andy has a 14-year-old and a 16-year-old, both girls. Surely, she makes cartoons about her own teens as well. However, early on, it was a lot easier. The older they get, the more she feels like they need to see and approve the cartoons. They often are fine. But the one thing that they do not like is how Andy draws their clothing. Evidently, it's not stylish. She just draws long-sleeve T-shirts and long pants. And there are a lot of complaints about that.

In any cartoon where Andy's daughter Claire is, she is falling. There is a cartoon where Claire writes a sentence for homework and then falls out of the chair. She is exhausted. And there's another one where Claire holds onto mom's leg and wants her to drag her into the kitchen to get a snack. This one is Andy's favourite for some reason. Andy's older daughter's name is Kate. She doesn't pay that much attention to her mother's cartoons, but she is not against being a part of them.