iStarSign inEnglish 7 · Unit 7: Success · Cambridge Global English Stage 7
7.8 Autobiography
13 questions · e.g. The 17 December 1903 was a ____ day at Kitty Hawk.
Questions
1. The 17 December 1903 was a ____ day at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Check2. Five people were standing on the ____ beach.
Check3. …watching two brothers fly their ____ machine.
Check4. The brothers were Wilbur and Orville Wright, ____ makers from Dayton, Ohio.
Check5. But the machine they'd built this time was a plane, made of wood and ____.
Check6. Their plane, Flyer, had two ____…
Check7. …turned by a petrol ____, which they'd also built.
Check- Orville turned on the engine and lay on his stomach on the lower wing.
- Twelve seconds later, it came down.
- As the wind grew stronger, the plane climbed into the air.
- That day the two brothers made a total of four flights.
9. What happened after Orville turned on the engine?
- It was an important day in the history of flight.
- Twelve seconds later, it came down.
- Their longest one was 59 seconds.
- The plane moved along a wooden path on the beach and Wilbur ran beside it.
10. What happened after the plane moved along the wooden path?
- Twelve seconds later, it came down.
- That day the two brothers made four flights.
- Their longest one was 59 seconds.
- As the wind grew stronger, the plane climbed into the air.
11. What happened after the plane climbed into the air?
- Twelve seconds later, it came down. Orville had flown Flyer 37 metres.
- Their longest one was 59 seconds.
- The plane moved along a wooden path.
- That day the two brothers made a total of four flights.
- It was an important day in the history of flight.
- Twelve seconds later, it came down.
- That day the two brothers made a total of four flights.
- Orville turned on the engine.
13. How far did Flyer fly on the longest flight?
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