Danger is always with you in a sport like this. But the number of deaths has gone down from ton to two each year since 1977.

Every country hasdifferent laws about hang-gliding. For example, in Britain a student pilotcun fly with an instructor on a hang-glider which carries two people, but inноши countries this is not allowed.

All over the woiId thoic giant butterflies are becoming more and more popular as people discoveitlie fun offlying.

In Russia people aie altointerested in developing this kind of sport. There are several modcU of hang-gliders. For example, the Antonov design bureau designed uIlex-wing hang-glider. Now it is in series production and is known usthe Slavutich-UT.

UNIT 11

Key to Ex. 7

1. bed	7. erect
2. depth	8 tunnel
3. hall	9 lift
4. local	10 twelve
5. layet	11 eleven
6. range

AUD1AL PRACTICE

The White House

The White House is the residence of the president of the United States of America. It is situated in Washington, D. C. The White House was the first public building which was built in the capital of the USA. Its cornerstone was laid in 1792 nearly one year before George Washington laid the cornerstone for the Capitol Building.

Architect James Hoban submitted plans for the building and received a 500 dollar prize for his work

In 1800 President John Adams and his wife moved into the building. At the beginning of the 19th century it was a light-grey structure made of sandstone. The construction of the building hadn't been completed by that time. There were almost no conveniences in the house. There were no bathrooms and water was carried by hand into the house from a spring which was five blocks away.

Work continued on the structure when Thomas Jefferson was elected

president. In 1814 the building caught on fire. The interior was reduced to ashes, part of the outer walls were destroyed and the remaining walls were blackened. Later the building was reconstructed and reopened in 1818. Its light-grey sandstone exterior was painted white to cover the effects of the fire.

It has been white ever since. Some people think it was from its white walls that the home of the president of the USA got its name. Other people believe that it got its name earlier, when it was still grey. Even then its grey sandstone walls looked white next to the red brick walls of other public buildings. Nevertheless the president's home was officially named the White House in 1902.

Experimental Bridge

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