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\(\boxed{2}\) Ты услышишь диалог. Определи, какие из приведённых утверждений А–G соответствуют содержанию текста (1 — true), какие не соответствуют (2 — false) и о чём в тексте не сказано, то есть на основании текста нельзя дать ни положительного, ни отрицательного ответа (3 — not stated). Занеси номер выбранного тобой варианта ответа в таблицу. Ты услышишь запись дважды.
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A. The human-powered helicopter is equipped with a simple wing system.

B. Igor Sikorsky only constructed helicopters, not aeroplanes.

C. Igor's mother was a doctor by profession, but she didn't work.

D. Sikorsky made his first attempts in engineering when he was a boy.

E. Sikorsky's family objected to his giving up the naval service.

F. Lack of money was one of the reasons why Sikorsky's first attempts to construct a helicopter failed.

G. Sikorsky's aircraft construction business was ruined because of World War I.

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Script Kate: Hi, Mike! What are you doing?

Mike: Hi, Kate. I'm watching an interesting video about the flight of the first human-powered helicopter in 2013.

Kate: A human-powered helicopter? What's that?

Mike: It is a flying vehicle powered only by a human carried on board. The power is usually generated by pedaling. Look! Here it is in the video.

Kate: Wow! It reminds me a bicycle with a complicated system of huge wings. It looks strange, but it can rise in the air! That's amazing.

Mike: Yes, it is. And it received the $250,000 prize at the Igor Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition.

Kate: And who is Igor Sikorsky? Why was the competition named after him?

Mike: Igor Sikorsky was a Russian-American aviation engineer in both helicopters and aircraft. He was born in 1889 in the Russian Empire, but he had to move to the USA in 1919.

Kate: To tell you the truth, I haven't heard about him. I only know about the Wright brothers who constructed the first aeroplane that could be controlled by the pilot.

Mike: Sikorsky was very famous, and he contributed greatly to the development of helicopter and aircraft engineering. He got interested in natural sciences due to his parents' influence. His father was an outstanding psychiatrist. His mother was a physician but she gave up her career to homeschool her children.

Kate: Taking into consideration his parents' professions, it's strange Sikorsky became an engineer, not a doctor.

Mike: You see, his mother was greatly interested in the personality of Leonardo da Vinci. So when Igor was a little boy, she told him a lot about Da Vinci's art and inventions. As a result, he became infatuated with Da Vinci's idea of a man flying. At the age of 12, he even made a model helicopter, and it could rise in the air.

Kate: So he knew what he wanted to be since he was a boy. I wish I had that kind of passion for something and knew undoubtedly what I want to be.

Mike: Not exactly. At first, he entered the Naval Academy in Saint Petersburg and was determined to become a naval officer like his brother. After a few years of studies, he realised it was a mistake. He didn't hesitate to resign from the naval service and entered the Kiev Polytechnic Institute.

Kate: How strange of him to have tried naval service with all that passion for flights. No wonder he had to resign. It requires will and courage to admit you've made the wrong choice and start everything anew.

Mike: During his trip to Germany in the summer of 1908, Igor came to know about the Wright brothers' flying machine and Ferdinand von Zeppelin's airships. Within 24 hours, Sikorsky decided he would study aviation. He wanted to construct a helicopter, a machine, that could rise straight into the air, without any runway.

Kate: Oh, so it was him who designed the helicopter!

Mike: Yes, but his first attempts to construct a helicopter in 1909 and in 1910 were a failure. He had to recognise that with the existing state of the engines and materials, with the shortage of money and lack of experience he could not produce a successful helicopter at that time. He didn't give up, though, and he became the construction of his first aeroplane.

Kate: I guess his work and ideas were in great demand during the First World War.

Mike: So, they were. Sikorsky's aeroplane research and production business was a success, and his factory constructed aircraft during the war.

Kate: And what about his dream, the helicopter? When did it come true?

Mike: In the late 1930s, Sikorsky returned to constructing the helicopter. And he was a success. In 1939, his helicopter went on its first flight.

Kate: We can learn a lot from the life stories of such great people. We must admit our mistakes and see them as our experience. And if we have a dream, we should pursue it and never give up.