Three Russians, an Italian-Colombian, a Frenchman and a Chinese man are making final preparations before spending 520 days inside a mock spaceship.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

A group of Venetian residents concerned about this marked the city's population decline with a mock funeral procession.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

The other three will wait for them -- in the mock spacecraft -- for a month.

VOA: standard.2010.06.02

The mock exercises are designed to be as realistic as possible.

VOA: standard.2010.07.26

There are even mock journalists and photographers.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

And they helped me with my resume writing, with mock interviews, with just about any type of resource that you can think of that will help someone attain a job, and retain their job also,".

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

In recent weeks, hundreds of Muscovites have been strapping blue buckets to the roofs of their cars to mock the flashing blue lights that allow senior bureaucrats to drive into oncoming traffic and break the rules that everyone else has to obey.

VOA: standard.2010.05.19