【正文】 s takeoff.(Even SantosDumont experts like Lins de Barros ... , Lins de Barros says that the steady winds at Kitty Hawk were crucial for the Flyer39。s for dinner every night and he39。s takeoff, disqualifying the flight because it probably could not lift off on its own. Peter Jakab, chairman of the aeronautics division at the US National Air and Space Museum in / Washington, says such claims are preposterous*. By the time SantosDumont got around to his maiden flight the Wright brothers had already flown numerous times, including one flight in which they flew 39 kilometers. Even in France the Wrights are considered to have flown before SantosDumont, says Claude Carlier, director of the French Center for the History of Aeronautics and Space. By rounding the Eiffel Tower in a motorized dirigible in .1901, SantosDumont helped prove that air travel could be controlled. Exercise A Prelistening Question Alberto SantosDumont was a wealthy Brazilian aviation pioneer who came to Paris, France, at the age of 18 to live and study. He attempted his first balloon ascent in 1897 and had his first successful ascent in 1898. He began to construct dirigible airships powered with gasolinepowered engines in 1898 and built and flew fourteen of the small dirigibles. In 1901, he flew his hydrogenfilled airship from St. Cloud, around the Eiffel Tower, and back to St. Cloud. It was the first such flight and won him the Deutsch Prize and a prize from the Brazilian government. In 1902, he attempted to cross the Mediterranean in an airship but crashed into the sea. In 1909, he produced his Demoiselle or Grasshopper monoplane, the precursor to the modern light plane. Exercise B Sentence Dictation Directions: Listen to some sentences and write them down. You will hear each sentence three times.Exercise C Detailed Listening Directions: Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Discuss with your classmates why you think the statement is true or false.T 1. The Brazilians believe that it was Alberto SantosDumont who invented the airplane. (Ask anyone in Brazil who invented the airplane, and they will say Alberto SantosDumont ... ) T 2. In Paul Hoffman39。 flight did not fulfill the conditions that had been set up at the time to distinguish a true flight from a prolonged hop. SantosDumont39。t count. It39。s for dinner. During the day he39。d fly to go shopping or to visit friends. 2. Since his was the first public flight in the world, he was hailed as the inventor of the airplane all over Europe.3. But to bring up the Wright brothers with a Brazilian is bound to elicit an avalanche of arguments as to why their flight didn39。s national basketball championship. Exercise A Directions: Listen to the news report and plete the summary. This news report is about two teams that will pete for the championship of US men39。s what concerns me the most, their ability to play together as a unit, because a lot of times you can play with anybody when you play that close together like they do. Indiana has 27 wins and 11 defeats this season. The last time a team won the national championship with as many as 11 losses was Kansas in 1988. Maryland has a school record of 31 wins against only 4 losses. It has three seniors in the starting lineup* who reached the semifinals last year, and they are determined that this time they will take home the school39。t look at their record. You look at how they39。s national collegiate basketball tournament concludes tonight (9 . EST) in Atlanta with a championship matchup* between Maryland and Indiana. Maryland is in the championship game for the first time in the school history. To get here, the Maryland Terrapins had to beat three teams with great basketballtraditions: Kentucky, Connecticut and Kansas.Now they face another, Indiana. While Maryland was one of the four top seeds in this 65team tournament, the Indiana Hoosiers* were a fifth seed, and virtually no one expected them to reach the title game*. But they knocked off defending champion Duke in the third round, and in the semifinals they upset Oklahoma. Maryland coach Gary Williams knows it will take a solid effort to win. Any team that39。s field of 156 golfers, who are vying for three million dollars in prize money. The firstplace check has been increased from 450 thousand to 540 thousand dollars. Exercise A Directions: Listen to the news item and plete the summary. This news item is about an annual Kemper Open golf tournament on Thursday. Exercise B Directions: Listen to the news again and answer the following questions. 1. The Kemper Open golf tournament will be held on Thursday. 2. Rich Beem es back to defend his title. 3. He is currently ranked 132nd on the money list. 4. Tiger Woods is numberone on golf39。s showing right now what he can do. The kid is just a fabulous, fabulous player, but he can39。s unbelievable. He39。ll be joined by German team Borussia Dortmund*, which advanced despite a 10 loss to Auxerre in France. AS Roma played