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Unit 5 Pioneers of Flight

Key to Exercises

Opener

A Mighty Airplane Built by Howard Hughes in 1947

Length

Height

Weight

It was 220 feet long.

It was higher than a five-story building.

It weighed about 60 tons.

It had to make the trip from Culver city in California to the

Pacific,

which is 30 miles away.

Trip

Reading & Interacting

I. Understanding the Text

1. Text Organization

StoryThe heroWhen it happenedHow it relates to modern aviation

Wan Hu’ s crazy dream contains

1 Wan Hu A.D. 1500

principles of rocket-powered spaceflight.

Many of the design features of the Spruce

Howard

2

Hughes 1947

modern cargo planes.

The flying devices with flapping wings

Leonardo

3

da Vinci ago designed still inspire people to pursue

About 500 years controlled and steered by human pilots he

On November 2,

Goose have been incorporated into

the

their dreams of flying freely in the sky.

2. Comprehension Check

2.1 Focusing on the main ideas

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The article consists of three stories about pioneers of flight. The first

story is about a Chinese named Wan Hu, who made an unsuccessful attempt at

spaceflight

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