CHINA IN SPACE Since the time when Chairman Mao said,China cannot even put a potato in space, things have changed considerably. First, in 1961, the Russians gave us the word ”cosmonaut”, and then the word astronaut followed from the USA when China completed its first manned mission, the world was given the word taikonaut”. China had launched a number of satellites before October 2003 when the first manned     spaceship was launched, powered by the Long March 2F rocket. The spacecraft Shenzhou V, carrying Cononel Yang Liwei, orbited the Earth 14 times in a mission that lasted 21 hours. The spacecraft was launched from the JiuquanSpaceCenter in GansuProvince and made a perfect landing in Inner Mongolia. “I have seen many landings before and I think that ours has been one of the most successful,” said Cononel Yang. The 38-year-old taikonaunt had been taking part in the strenuous space training programme for five years. His schedule partly carried out in Russia, took all his time.I haven’t been able to take my son to kindergarten”, he said,and I have never met my son’s teachers.” The launch was one of a series in a space programme that is aiming to make China one of the world leaders. We are looking at a range of possibilities. China is expected to complete its first exploration of the moon in 2010.We will establish bases there just as we did at the North and South Poles,” said Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the moon exploration programme,” and we won’t rule out assistance from outside.” We can expect China to send more taikonauts into space in future years. 题目、 1. The word  “{A B C D}  ” is invented by the Chinese.