問題詳情

Larry Walters’ boyhood dream was not an unusual one: he wanted to fly. What was unusual,_  21_  , was the way he fulfilled it. After finishing school, Larry joined the U.S. Air Force, but was rejected by the pilot-training school because of poor eyesight. However, his dream remained.At the age of 33, Larry was not a pilot, _22_  a truck driver in Los Angeles. One day, while sitting outside in his lawn chair, Larry had his eureka moment. As he watched jets fly overhead, an idea came to him to use weather balloons to fly.A few weeks later, Larry bought 42 weather balloons, each one meter in diameter. His plan was to float about 10 meters _23_  his backyard, enjoy a few hours in the air, and then pop some balloons with his gun to get back down. But things did not go according to Larry’s plan.When his friends cut the anchor lines, Larry, lifted by the 42 balloons, shot skyward at an astonishing speed. He finally settled at an altitude of 4,000 meters. Afraid to pop any of the balloons because _24_  so might upset the balance of his “craft,” Larry sat, cold and frightened, in the sky for 14 hours.Airline pilots heading toward Los Angeles’ busy international airport radioed in reports of the strange sight. As a result of Larry’s stunt, numerous planes had to be rerouted. Eventually, Larry worked up the nerve to shoot a few balloons and slowly descended, _25_  in power lines. Uninjured, he climbed down to safety and was arrested by waiting police.
21.
(A) therefore
(B) though
(C) besides
(D) on the contrary

參考答案

答案：B
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(1),B(3),C(2),D(0),E(0)

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