Step by Step 3000. Book Three.
Unit 12. Review.
A. Revolutionary car.
The following news report is about a kind of revolutionary car. Supply the missing words while listening.
What is it? Well, it's the a flying pod, and it goes by the name of evolution.
It certainly looks a lot different from the first automobiles, and like all good evolution stories, it's way ahead of its predecessors.
Inventor and chief designer Alexander Begak says it can travel on land, slide through water and snow, and even fly, thanks to a gliding parachute that acts as a portable wing.
It's great for fishing or hunting, expecially the two-seater.
Its flying speed can be very slow. It can be set at 15 kilometers per hour, so it will practically stay still, that's good for hunting.
With its 30 horsepower motor, evolution can reach speeds of 160 kilometers an hour in the air, and 80 on land.
But Begak says a new machine he and his team are working on can go even faster than this on land, and reaches speeds of 450 kilometers an hour in the air.
As well as being an inventor and designer, Begak also sounds like he's putting his creative energy into a novel marketing campaign.
He plans to give his first evolution to Russia's outgoing President Vladimir Putin, hoping the gift will inspire him to back the country's evolving light aircraft industry.