1、Today, when a man steps onto the moon, the    36     learns about it immediately. What did the   37   say about that first flight in 1903? Strangely enough, they said hardly     38   about it at all. There were only a few reports about it in the newspapers. These reports said very  39  . Some of the things they said were not even  40  .

In 1904 the Wrights brothers built a  41   machine. They called it “Flyer No. Two”. They ___42  some reporters to watch them fly.  43   there was some mechanical(機械的)trouble with the plane and it did not fly at all that day. The  reporters     44    away. They were   45   and did not come back. The Wrights went on with their   46    . In 1905 they built an even   47    machine, “Flyer No. Three”. They were able to  48  up in the air for half an hour and more in this machine. They were able to turn and climb in the air. Farmers and travelers often saw them     49  .  But when these people told reporters about it, they  50   to believe them.

The Wrights    51   “Flyer No. Three” to the  United States Government. The Government was not  __52  .  They seemed to think the Wrights wanted money to build a    53   . They did not understand The Wrights had already done this, and flown it as well. Experts were still saying that mechanical flight was  54  . At the end of 1905, the two    55   took their plane to pieces. The parts were put into a huge box. It seemed that nobody was interested.