"To Fly" Selection Test Review

What is the correct way to use foresight in a sentence?

• I speak not from foresight, but from a platform built upon the laws of physics.

• Television will soon foresight you to see the world's greatest spectacles as you sit in the comfort of your home.

• He had had the foresight to bring in the washing before the rain started.

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Which of the following situations best illustrates the meaning of naivete?

• Isaac always passes the ball to the more talented players on the team.

• Jocelyn does not understand why they are laughing at the crude joke.

• Hiroshi is conducting his own orchestral composition at the concert in June.

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According to physicist Lord Kelvin as cited in “To Fly,” a chapter from Space Chronicles, human flight is impossible because things heavier than air cannot fly.

• True

• False

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In “To Fly,” the author responds to Kelvin’s assertion about flight by suggesting that technological ingenuity can solve all problems.

• True

• False

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 In “To Fly,” the author presents information about the speed of sound to indicate how rapidly humans have overcome the laws of physics.

• True

• False

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Which things are not true about the German V-2 missile?

• It was like a sentinel in space.

• It used gravity to power its flight.

• It could hold more than one person.

• It could be launched far from its target.

What is the greatest achievement in flight so far?

• the Wright Brothers’ aeroplane

• the launch of Voyager 2

• the breaking of the sound barrier

Read the following passage from “To Fly.”

For millennia, the idea of being able to fly occupied human dreams and fantasies. Waddling around on Earth’s surface as majestic birds flew overhead, perhaps we developed a form of wing envy. One might even call it wing worship.

The author is saying that humans want the powers that they observe in other creatures.

• True

• False

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Read the following passage from “To Fly.”

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. 

The author says that this line of reasoning is flawed because we may be smarter than birds, yet we failed to fly until very recently.

• True

• False

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The United States even adopted a flying predator as a symbol of its strength: the bald eagle, which appears on the back of the dollar bill, the quarter, the Kennedy half dollar, the Eisenhower dollar, and the Susan B. Anthony dollar.

What is the most likely reason for the lunar module’s name, Eagle?

• Eagles can fly farther than all other birds.

• The people who named the module were making a joke

• As America’s national bird, the name “Eagle” best represents our power in being the first nation to the moon.

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