Listening and speaking, three, listening again and fill in the blanks with the correct numbers. Today, we are very pleased to chat with mister yang lee way, the first chinese astronaut. Welcome to the show. mr. yang. Thank you, mr. yang. Our audience is very curious about how you succeeded in becoming china's first astronaut. IT must have been a very difficult thing to achieve. Did you always want to be an astronaut? Yes, I dream IT when I was Young, but I never thought my wish would come true. IT took a long time. First, I got my college degree when I was twenty two, and then I worked as a fighter pilot for around ten years. I finally became china's first astronaut when I was thirty eight years old. Oh, so you must be a really experienced pilot. Do you think that was one of the reasons you were chosen for the space program? sure. I had one thousand, three hundred and fifty hours of flight experience, which I think really helped me. So how difficult was IT to join the space program? There was a lot of competition. altogether. Fourteen of us were chosen from among one thousand five hundred pilots to train for space flights. That sounds really difficult. Did you also have to be a certain size and weight? Yes, at the time, you had to be shorter than one hundred and seventy two centimeters in height, in way less than seventy kilograms. You also had to be in perfect health and perfect shape. So you were the perfect choice. As we all know, an astronaut needs to be healthy and calm in order to work in space. But you also had to study a lot too, right? Yes, I had to learn english, science and astronomy. I also had to practice using space equipment and do a lot of mental and physical training. IT was very tiring, but I was so proud to have the opportunity.