[填空题]In 1962, John Glenn, at the age of (11) , took a history-making ride (12) Friendship 7 to become the first man to orbit (绕轨道运行) the earth and to walk in space. He did it for science and for his country. Then in 1999, at the age of seventy-seven, Glenn made history again to take the flight back into space.
When asked for (13) on his trip, Glenn said, "Old folks have ambitions (志向) and (14) , too, like everybody else and why don’t they work for them Why don’t they (15) it Don’t sit on a couch (长沙发) someplace, that’s my attitude./

One night in February 1962, John H. Glenn, Jr. , flew over Australia. The man in the Mercury (水星号) capsule (太空舱) was alone, but friendly voices reached him by radio. On the dark land 100 miles below, he saw a sprinkling (零星) of lights. They marked the city of Perth, where people had turned on their lights as a greeting to him.
In Friendship 7, Glenn radioed, "Tile lights show up very well. Thank everybody for turning them on." His capsule raced on to the east.
During his three orbits of the earth, Glenn could always reach one of eighteen tracking stations. Some of them were on ships at sea. Others were in the United States.
Many of the stations had been built with the help of the other countries. These countries allowed Americans to bring in radio equipment and set it up. Without the help of such lands as Nigeria, Zanzibar, and Mexico, there would have been breaks in the worldwide radio network.
John Glenn, Jr. , was the first American to
A. all tracking stations arc inside Perth, Australia
B. Friendship 7 stopped in the United States
C. radio equipment is important in space flights
D. John Glenn worked alone in the tracking station

United States Senator John Glenn returned to orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery in late October, 1998, 36 years after his first lift-off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. (46) The 77-year-old politician, who in 1962 became America’s first man to orbit the Earth, blasted off with six other astronauts on a mission that would include research into ageing. Taking leave of him at the space center along with 3,000 media representatives, 20,000 invited guests and an estimated half million people who crowded vantage points round about to watch the launch-- were his wife of more than 50 years, Annie, his two children and two grandchildren.
Glenn fever struck Florida’s space coast months ahead of the launch, with hotel rooms booked up half a year in advance. One local newspaper called the phenomenon "Hurricane Glenn", an ironic reference to the spate of devastating hurricane that had already hit the Florida coast during 1998.
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