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Unit 5 Pioneers of Flight
Key to Exercises
Opener
A Mighty Airplane Built by Howard Hughes in 1947
LengthIt was 220 feet long.
HeightIt was higher than a five-story building. WeightIt weighed about 60 tons. It had to make the trip from Culver city in California to the Pacific, Trip
which is 30 miles away.
Reading & Interacting
I. Understanding the Text
1. Text Organization
When it happenedThe heroHow it relates to modern aviationStory
Wan Hu' s crazy dream containsthe Wan HuA.D. 15001
principles of rocket-powered spaceflight.
Many of the design features of the Spruce HowardOn November 2,
2Goose havebeenincorporatedinto 1947Hughes
modern cargo planes.
The flying devices with flapping wings About 500 yearscontrolled and steered by human pilots heLeonardo 3
da Vinciinspiredesigned stillagopeople to pursue
their dreams of flying freely in the sky.
2. Comprehension Check
2.1 Focusing on the main ideas
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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in A.D.1500. He built a spaceship powered by 47
rockets using gunpowder. His
idea was crazy, but his dream of flight came true 500 years later when China
