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

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.

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

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

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

What is the greatest achievement in flight so far?

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.

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.

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?

The author makes allusions of money, the flag, and Superman. These allusions support the idea that flying has been special to humans for a long time.

In the hands of the West a space station, permanently established beyond the atmosphere, would be the greatest hope for peace the world has ever known. No nation could undertake preparations for war without the certain knowledge that it was being observed by the ever-watching eyes aboard the “sentinel in space.” It would be the end of the Iron Curtains wherever they might be. 

According to this magazine piece excerpted in “To Fly,” what would be the main effect of building a space station?

In “To Fly,” which of these ideas does the text connect in a cause-and- effect relationship?

In a painting of the sun setting behind the mountains, the landscape artist placed a human head in the foreground.

Which of these words and phrases is the most likely meaning of the word foreground? Use the context clues in the sentence and your knowledge of the prefix fore- to help you answer.

Which underlined word is a proper adjective?

Superman, a famous American superhero, has the power to fly and lives and works in Metropolis.