Reading Explorer 2: Unit 12

In 12A, what is the first paragraph mainly about?

• why some people continue to try to fly

• how the Greeks were the first to try to fly

• how people have always dreamed of flying

• the dangers of flying

How does the author describe her first hang gliding experience?

• terrible

• exciting

• dangerous

• courageous

What can the words lets you go be replaced with?

• allows you

• releases you

• connects you

• forces you

What is NOT true about BASE jumping?

• Parachutes are used.

• People jump from airplanes.

• It is often illegal.

• They experience free-falling

What did Yves Rossy accomplish?

• He invented a type of flying that doesn’t use wings.

• He invented wings with engines that a person can wear.

• He flew a hang glider from France to England.

• He built model flying machines.

___ designed flying machines but never flew in one

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Jon Thompson

• J.T. Holmes

• Icarus

___ teaches people how to hang glide

• Nancy Shute

• Jon Thompson

• J.T. Holmes

• Icarus

___ is a BASE jumper

• Nancy Shute

• Yves Rossy

• J.T. Holmes

• Icarus

________: a light, modern machine that makes flying simple and safe enough even for tourists

____: flying in a hang glider made for two people