CULTURE (High flyers)

EX1: Read and listen to the text. Write dates before the following statements. (Đọc và nghe văn bản. Viết ngày tháng trước các câu sau)

Answer:

2003: The world celebrated the 100th anniversary of the first heavier-than-air craft.

17/12/1903: The first airplane took off.

1908: Leon Delagrange became the first flight passenger.

1/1/1914: The first scheduled air service began.

EX2: Match the words in blue in the text with definitions. (Ghép các từ màu xanh lam trong văn bản với các định nghĩa)

Answer:

cam up with => 3. produce something

heavier-than-air => 1. Weighing more than the air

first scheduled air => 5. A routine air transport service according to a timetable

Innovations => 4. new ideas or methods

affordable => 2. becoming cheaper and cheaper