2004年MBA听力材料及参考答案(第六季).docVIP

2004年MBA听力材料及参考答案(6) 　Mock Test Six　　Part A　　Directions：For Questions 1-5, you will hear a talk on the first aircraft flight. While you listen, fill out the table with the information you’ve heard. Some of the information has been given to you in the table. Write only 1 word or number in each numbered box. You will hear the recording twice. You now have 25 seconds to read the table below. (5 points)　　M:In December 1903 two brothers, bicycle-makers from Ohio, made the world’s first successful flight in a heavier-than-air, motor-powered craft.　　Orville and Wilbur Wright had flown gliders for about seven years to test wind resistance and the control of planes in flight. They built a home made wind tunnel to try out their theories, and they built their plane, knowing it could fly and that they could control it. They made a thin, light, double-winged plane of spruce, wire and muslin along the lines of the gliders. The wingspan was 40 feet, with double wings and a double rudder. They attached a 12 horsepower engine with a chain transmission like that of a bicycle, driving two propellers in opposite directions.　　The first successful flight lasted 12 seconds, lifting 12 feet off the ground and covering a distance of 120 feet. The achievement created little interest at first. No one realized then that this was one of history’s important milestones, and the beginning of aviation as we know it today, with its profound effect on people all over the world.　　After their successful flight, the Wrights gave up bicycle-making and concentrated on airplanes. In 1909 the army bought a plane from them. Not long after, commercial firms were established in France and Germany to manufacture Wright airplanes. One of the brothers died in 1912, but the other lived to see the dawn of the jet age and the beginning of the nuclear era, the latter accelerated by long-range aviation. (247 words)　　W: Now you will hear the recording again.　　That is the endof Part A.　　M: Part B　　Di