danielan2003

30.08.2020 21:26

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It is (1) to think that as recently as 1903, many of the world's
leading (2) were still absolutely certain that people would never fly. An
(3) US professor declared in that year that a flying machine was an
(4)__ because something which was (5)_ __ than the air itself could
not take off. But just a few weeks later, came the surprise (6) that two
brothers from Ohio named Wright had built just such a machine.
The media remained so (7) by their claims, however, that neither
reporters nor (8)_ were sent along to witness any of their test (9)
The brothers, somewhat discouraged, then offered their (10)_ to the
US army, who showed no interest. It was only when a French company began
to take them (11) that the brothers had the opportunity to prove the
experts wrong.
(1) CREDIBLE
(2) SCIENCE
(3) INFLUENCE
(4) POSSIBLE
(5) HEAVY
(6) ANNOUNCE
(7) CONVINCE
(8) PHOTOGRAPH
(9) FLY
(10) INVENT
(11) SERIOUS