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Man has always wanted to fly. Even as__1__as eight hundred years ago, an Englishman tried. He__2__a pair of wings from chicken feathers and__3__them to his shoulders. Then he jumped from__4__building. As you can__5__， he did not fly very__6__. Instead，he fell to the ground and broke several__7__.
The first real attempt(尝试)at flying took__8__in France in 1783. The two Montgolfier brothers knew that hot air__9__. If they could fill a large balloon with hot air, they thought it would rise__10__the air and fly. They were__11__. They made a very__12__hot air balloon of cloth and paper. It__13__ten metres in diameter(直径). They filled it with hot air and the balloon__14__two hundred metres into the air. It__15__to the earth about three kilometres__16__.
At the next attempt, they arranged for the balloon to carry __17__. We don't know what they felt about the__18__as they were a cock，a duck and a __19__. But we do know that the trip__20__eight minutes and the animals landed safely.
1．A.far B．long
C．soon D．much
2．A.got B．grew
C．made D．cut
3．A.placed B．fixed
C．laid D．left
4．A.an old B．a tall
