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　　How about spending your holiday traveling by balloon (气球)? Do you

know much about balloon trips? Now 1. t_____of people are interested in

traveling in this way. The first balloon trip occurred (发生) in 1783. It 2. o_____

lasted for a few minutes, but it became very 3. p_____. A few short years later, a

Frenchman, Jean Pierre Blanchard, and his American friend, John Jefferies,

decided to fly 4. a_____ the English Channel (英吉利海峡) by balloon. Many

people were 5. l_____ forward to their success. Unfortunately, while they were

high over the Channel, they 6. d_____ a hole in the balloon. The hole 7. b_____

bigger and bigger causing the gas in the balloon to escape. Filled with fear, they

8. t_____ all their things into the water to make the bal-loon lighter. Their plan

worked and the balloon 9. r_____ again. At last they succeeded in 10. l_____

their balloon on the opposite shore (岸).

1. _____ 2. _____ 3. _____ 4. _____ 5. _____

6. _____ 7. _____ 8. _____ 9. _____ 10. _____