Упр.1 Часть 3a Рабочая тетрадь ГДЗ Spotlight 8 класс

Complete the texts using the words given.

A On July 2nd 1900 1) … of people living in a German town 2) … to watch the very first Zeppelin airship go up in the air. Similar airships had been around for about 50 years but the Zeppelin was the first airship with a special design that allowed it to travel faster than those built before. The Zeppelin’s 3) … was Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin. In 1910, the airship Deutschland became the world’s first commercial airship. By the start of World War I in 1914, German Zeppelins had travelled over 172,000 km and carried over 34,000 4) … safely.

B Christopher Cockerel’s idea was to build a vehicle that would travel just above the surface of land or water 1) … on a cushion of air. His 2) … started with two cans, one inside the other, and a hairdryer to blow air into them. The 3) … showed that air could produce enough pressure to 4) … a vehicle off the ground. In 1959, in the English Channel, Christopher Cockerel 5) … the first hovercraft which has been used throughout the world ever since for commercial and military reasons.