III Read the text below and think of the word which best fits each space. Use only one word in each space.

Alan Bean was born in 1932 in Texas, USA. He developed (1)...........early interest in aviation and spent a lot of time making model airplanes. At the age of eighteen, he won a US Navy scholarship (2)........enabled him to study aeronautical engineering at the University of Texas. When he graduated, he learned to fly and spent five years (3)......a Navy pilot. Later he became a test pilot and (4) was at this time that he had a lucky escape. An aircraft he was flying (5).......struck by lightning but he managed to land it safely, (6)........ it was badly damaged.

In 1962, he applied for the NASA astronaut training programme and a year (7).......was selected as one of the fourteen astronauts who (8).......take part in the Apollo missions to the Moon. In 1969, he became the fourth man to set foot on the surface of the Moon, (9)..........he spent 31 hours, collecting rock samples and carrying (10)........ scientific experiments.
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