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A few centuries ago, people looked at the birds and wondered what it would be

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问题    A few centuries ago, people looked at the birds and wondered what it would be like to fly like them. There were stories of heroes who glued bird feathers on their arms and flew up into the sky. About 500 years ago, some people dreamed a different dream. Instead of flying up to the sky, they dreamed of falling from the sky!
   In the 15th century, Italian inventors designed a cone-shaped(锥形) device that was supposed to bring a man down safely from a great height. The operator held on to a handle with straps strapped to his waist. This was the first known design for a parachute (降落伞).
   Even the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci sketched a type of parachute. His parachute design was in the shape of pyramid (金字塔). Other inventors also sketched their own designs for a parachute. Unfortunately, these were only designs on paper and no one tested them.
   A Croatian inventor named Fausto Veranzio looked at Leonardo da Vinci’ s parachute design and replaced the pyramid shape with one that looked like a sail from a ship. When Veranzio was 65 years old, he fell ill. Thinking he would not live longer, he decided to try out his parachute invention. He built his parachute using wood and cloth. Straping his invention to his waist, he jumped off the tall bell tower in his city. He landed safely! He was supposedly the first man to successfully use a parachute. However, some people thought this story was not true. If that was the case, then the first person to successfully use a parachute would go to a Frenchman named Louis-Sebastien Lenormand in 1783. [br] The passage is mainly about______.
选项 A、the origin of the parachute
B、the dreams of flying and falling
C、the courage of dropping from the sky
D、the application of parachute invention
答案 A
解析 主旨题。文章第一段描述人们飞翔的梦想，之后描述了意大利人设计的降落伞草图，最后提到有人勇敢进行了降落伞的实验，并获得成功。所以全文讲的就是降落伞的起源。选项B(飞翔和降落的梦想)与文意不符，由文章后几段可知，本文主要是讲述降落伞，跟飞翔无关。选项C(从天空降落的勇气)不符合文章内容，文中并没有提到勇气。选项D(降落伞发明的应用)不符合文章内容，文中并没有指出降落伞的应用方面。故本题选A。
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