Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer that best fits each of the numbered blanks. Public transport Shimizu company want to offer 3-day holidays in a space station, which will be bigger than the International Space Station. However, holidays in space will be very (21) ______________! About 90,000 dollars for three days! Shimizu believe that there are enough people who will be ready to pay the price. Other firms, in Japan and (22) ...

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the correct answer that best fits each of the numbered blanks.

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Shimizu company want to offer 3-day holidays in a space station, which will be bigger than the International Space Station. However, holidays in space will be very (21) ______________! About 90,000 dollars for three days! Shimizu believe that there are enough people who will be ready to pay the price.

Other firms, in Japan and (22) ______________ USA, want to open hotels on the moon! Trips to the moon will be even more expensive!

The Japanese firm is quite serious; but they cannot yet start (23) ______________ their orbiting hotel. First they will have to buy a commercial reusable shuttle. Today there are no shuttles. The old American shuttles, (24) ______________ Atlantis and Columbia, were very expensive to launch. They had to be launched into (25) ______________ with a big rocket which cannot be reused. Tomorrow's shuttles will take off and land on their own, probably like aeroplanes.