Great Inventions Reading Passage Answers Check out the reading passages I post in the group "English Reading Group". Here are the answers for the Great Inventions passage. 1.. The idea of flying an aircraft was ___to some people. 
B. distasteful 
 2. People thought that the Wright brothers had ____. A. acted without thinking 
 3. The Wright's interest in flight grew into a ____. 
C. need to act 4.. Lilenthal's idea about controlling airborne vehicles was ___the Wrights. 
C. disliked by 5.. The old tables were __ and replaced by the first reliable figures for air pressure on curved surfaces. 
B. canceled 
 6. The Wrights designed and built their own source of ____. A. force for moving forward