4 | Read the text below and decide which answer (a, b or c) best fits each gap.

Karim Karimov was born on November 14,1917, and grew up in Baku. He worked in Soviet Aeronautics 0) b the chairman of the state commission. All the space programs of the Soviet Union 1) ★★★ by him. Until 1987, people in Azerbaijan 2) ★★★ that the person in the number one position in aerospace was from Azerbaijan. On TV programs, cameras always focused on the cosmonauts, not on the person they reported to. Because Karimov was a "secreted general", he 3) ★★★ from the camera's view, and only his voice was broadcast. Musa Manarov was born on March 22,1951, in Baku, Azerbaijan. He 4) ★★★ a cosmonaut in 1978 and went to space twice. He spent a total of more than 541 days there. |

In 1987, he had his first space journey on Soyuz TM-4. This spacecraft connected with the Mir space station where he 5) ★★★ for a whole year. Musa Manarov was the first person ever to spend a whole year in space. Then, in 1990, Manarov went to Mir for the second time. While he stayed there 6) ★★★ 176 days, he did 20 hours of spacewalks.
We hope that in the future, Azerbaijani astronauts 7) ★★★ in space exploration. Opportunities for training and missions 8) ★★★ for them.

0. | a. from | b. as | c. at
1. | a. have headed | b. are headed | c. were headed
2. | a. didn't know | b. don't know | c. haven’t known
3. | a. always hides | b. was always hidden | c. always hid
4. | a. becomes | b. was becoming | c. became
5. | a. lived | b. has lived | c. was lived
6. | a. in | b. since | c. for
7. | a. will actively involve | b. will be actively involved | c. are actively involved
8. | a. will be provided | b. are provided | c. will provide