跟读练习: RE2 Unit 12A - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Track 23.
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Reading 12a.
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The Dream of Flight.
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For thousands of years, humans have dreamed of taking to the skies.
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The ancient Greeks told the legend of Icarus, a boy who flies so high that the sun melts his man-made wings and he crashes down to earth.
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Across history, many more people have died after jumping from a tower or cliff with wings that didn't quite work.
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Flying, for humans, seemed an impossibility.
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Yet many continue to dream of flying.
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One such dreamer was the great 15th century artist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.
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He studied the flight of birds and even designed his own flying machines, but they, and he, never left the ground.
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Five hundred years later, standing on a windy hill in North Carolina, in the United States, I was about to make the dream come true.
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Unlike Leonardo, I had the help of a hang glider, a light, modern machine that makes flying simple and safe enough even for tourist entertainment.
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I held on to the hang glider as tightly as I could.
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Terrified, I ran down the hill, and suddenly, I was running in the air.
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I was flying.
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What a thrill!
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Now, I wanted more.
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A friend in my hang gliding class suggested I next try a tandem flight, flying in a hang glider made for two people.
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A small airplane carries you up 600 meters and then lets you go.
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I decided to try it with my instructor, John Thompson.
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Up into the air we went.
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When the airplane released us, it felt like falling from a building, head first.
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You can fly now, my instructor said.
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After a few moments, I found the courage to turn the glider a little to the left, and then a little to the right.
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I was more like a pigeon than an eagle, but I was flying.
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Of course, hang gliding is not the only way mankind has learned to enjoy the freedom of flight.
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Today, many people skydive, while base jumpers, those who jump off buildings, cliffs, and bridges, often get their thrills illegally.
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For a few exciting moments, they experience free-falling.
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falling downwards with nothing to slow them, before they open a parachute.
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It's as close as human beings can get to flying like a bird, says base jumper J.T.
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Holmes.
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Switzerland's Yves Rossi might disagree.
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The wings he has invented for personal flight have four small engines.
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He steers them just by moving his shoulders.
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For ten minutes at a time, Rossi seems to fly as free as a bird, having both power and control.
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One of his longest flights was across the water from France to England.
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It's awesome.
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It's great.
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It's fantastic, says Rossi.
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Since then, he has continued to improve his wing design
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and hopes he can motivate the next generation of thinkers to do something different, even if it seems impossible.
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Thank you.
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