2019春季阶段测试后查漏补缺（第二次）勤思班（完型填空篇）

 

For a very long time people tried to fly like birds or insects with wings made of wood or card.But no-one could fly until two brothers who were (1) Wright made the first plane a century ago.

The first planes were very (2) . They were just big enough for one pilot and they couldn’t fly very far.Today,there are very big planes which can (3) hundreds of people at the same time to (4) country in the world.

There are also a lot of small planes (5) are very important in people’s lives. In some countries,if there are (6) in the big forests,fireman use small planes to pick up water from a river or the sea and drop (7) on the fire.

In the last fifty years,more and more people (8) begun to go on holiday by plane.Fifty years ago most countries only had one airport but today there is an airport near most big cities.