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B_Now complete the Exam Task. Exam Task Wado ea ww For questions 1 — 10, choose from the paragraphs (A ~ G). The paragraphs may be chosen more than once. ph are the following mentioned? improving one’s performance with practice fiying with an experienced professional the frst glider ever to flya short distance disappointment over an unfuliled dream 2 great deal of time to learn how to do something longing for the same experience as another person 2 flying machine powered by human legs ‘encouraging someone to try something new someone experiencing great fear flying apparatus powered by fuel IF WE Hap WINGs... [A perched onthe ee of ol windswapt dune in North Curling, wos about oul eden Tabard with Leonardo da Ving to fy The Rensance gn spent years deciphering {he igh efi snd devising fying machines On his deste iniSi9 Leonardo sid one of is regrets as that head never flown five hundred years of trnraion snc then had rede thehang ger el sore my head; ple and safe enough tobe eftted a trust enerttment Bu dese caste of Aventre and experimentation, personal fight eran sie B Leonardo drew hundreds of images of birds on the wing, ‘tying to decode their secrets, and Grew meticulous plans for fying mechines notin today picer ane ctr. Bt entre figured out the pic igh te ook mere than eo years and many mor falledexpeinents unt Sir Gorge ayes dh engineer, deterred that igh regaled i, Propulsion, end contol He bts ide with x carved wing Erestelit fe grned enough mend ty bt crashed aero a feu bandied yas ‘Toe best succes in inhi pout fhe io 1a when the Dawa Hghtweight aera bys enn atthe Massachusetts inate of ethnology, few 75 miles ftom the Ges sland of reef Smtorin te © pound crf Dele» crek Okmpi jet, gor cart n tbe ‘spprosced the beach Santorini croaked inthe 20,3 fer Yoras rom the shore. D iwentors continue to try to bring the fantasy of personal fight life and Yves Rosy has come closest This Sis lot figs himself oot of an irra wearing» sicfoot wide carbon fier ing of hin or neers, powered by ty jet engi Recently Rosy jumped from a hooper above the Grand Canyon mn the Shan ew for eght minute before parachting ‘That freedom dovsn't come easy i took Rosey yoars to master his tiny craft T steer myself in space with only my body! he explains. To go left. tum my shoulders left, and that's it He says it’ like parachuting with a wing suit E You won't catch me jumping cut ofa plane with a wing strapped to my back But yearn for even a small messure ‘of Rosey oy inflight After five attempts from one of the highest sand dunes inthe eastern USA last Apri 1 was {getting closer ~ abe to fly into the wind, then foatgentiy ‘own onto my feet It was as if the lider wasn there. F butt wanted more, sandra Vernon, a47-year-olé mother of ‘threo in my class on the dune, egged me on, she's been fying ‘owed tandem fights, pulled 2000 feet behind an ultralight alrraft This usually gives aang lider a good ten-minute ‘ight back down to Earth, even if thee is no ising warm air to help keep the craft up."Tm short, I'm chubly, Tm not pry! erion says ‘wish [had been doing this in my twenties You can't help but love it G challenge accepted, |strpped myself into the hamess of |atandem gider with my inetractor He warmed me tha the ‘moment when the plane released us would remind me of going over the top ofa rollercoaster, 'm a coaster fan. This ‘was nothing ike that. 1 fet ike fling headfirst off the op of| '22.000-fot tal building. You can fy now he sai, offering me the contol, Nol {shouted over the wind. In a few moments the sider began to rive and then ly horizontally. My teror lessened, Bnd I tok control. moved to the lef, then tothe right with the aility more ofa pigeon than an eaple, but ying all he same ATA

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