奇速英语

It all started when Orville was 7 and Wilbur was 11 years old. Their father, Bishop Milton Wright, gave them a/an ____1____ helicopter. It really flew. That plaything made them dream of ____2____.

The boys still wanted to know about flight ____3____ they grew up. They read ____4____ they could find about it. They studied ____5____ other people learned about flight.

By 1900, the Wright Brothers were ____6____ to test their first glider (滑翔机). It was like a kite. They studied the best ____7____ to fly. They picked a sandy spot in Kitty Hawk. They were getting closer to flying. Finally, on December 17, 1903, the time had come.

That day, they flew four ____8____. Orville flew the Wright Flyer the first time. That flight ____9____ 12 seconds. It went 120 feet. Their second and third flights ____10____ about 175 feet each. Wilbur flew the fourth flight of the day. It went 859 ____11____. It took 59 seconds. After that last flight, the wind blew very ____12____. It blew the Flyer across the sand. The plane was seriously destroyed.

The Wright Brothers kept studying and testing new ____13____. They wanted to make their Flyer better. They began to teach others to fly. They even opened their own flying school. The ____14____ became rich and famous. Everything was going well for them.

We honor Orville and Wilbur for making the ____15____ of flight come true. And, for forever changing our world.

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