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Read this sentence from the passage.
Nor would Wilbur and Orville’s first trip have turned any bird heads
What can the reader infer from this sentence?
A. People were amazed at what Wilbur and Orville accomplished to advance air flight.
B. The achievement of Wilbur and Orville was not considered meaningful at the time.
C. The success of Wilbur and Orville’s first trip was measured by how well their plane glided.
D. Wilbur and Orville did not fly high enough into the sky to reach the height that birds fly.

Read the excerpt from the text.
...Our inability to fly often goes unmentioned in textbook comparisons of human features with those of other species in the animal kingdom. Yet we are quick to use the word “flightless” as a synonym for “hapless” when describing such birds as the dodo and the boby, which tend to find themselves on the wrong end of evolutionary jokes. We did, however, ultimately learn to fly because of the technological ingenuity afforded by our human brains. And of course, while birds can fly, they are nonetheless stuck with bird brains. But this self-aggrandizing line of reasoning is somewhat flawed, because it ignores all the millennia that we were technologically flightless…
How does the paragraph develop a main idea of the text?
A. It compares and contrasts the similarity between birds flying and airplanes.
B. It explains the need to respect the characteristics of unique winged animals.
C. It introduces the capacity of humans to invent technology through trial and error.
D. It outlines the major points in history when technological advances were made.

Based on the text, how did the media respond to developments in light?
A. Developments were celebrated by everyone as scientific breakthroughs.
B. Most media ignored the developments because they were failures.
C. Science writers acknowledged the developments while others did not.
D. Some ignored the developments while others acknowledged them

Based on the text, place the events in the order in which they occurred.
Lindbergh flew solo across the Atlantic in a historic flight.
Louis Blériot crossed the English Channel from Calais to Dover in an airplane.
Voyager passed the orbit of Pluto and entered the realm of interstellar space.
Wilbur and Orville Wright flew a heavier-than-air, engine-powered vehicle that carried a human.

Why did the author most likely include the quote from Sir Arthur Eddington at the beginning of text?
A. The author uses the quote to provide evidence about the point that literature mirrors real life.
B. The author uses the quote to provide evidence that only successful moon landings were valuable.
C. The author uses the quote to show how many of the examples in the text were just stunts.
D. The author uses the quote to show that what is thought of as failure can also be a learning experience.

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