考研听力基本功4 Passage9

Have you ever considered sky divin
[00:03.08]Thousands of people learn to sky dive each yea
[00:06.82]The first major step to learn is proper touch down techniqu
[00:11.57]That means learning how to fall properly,initially from a four-foot platfor
[00:17.76]Next,you must learn the arch,which is the proper position for leaving the plan
[00:23.85]To do the arch correctly,you must place your weight on your stomach rather than on your bac
[00:29.99]After examining the airplane to be used for the jum
[00:33.33]Beginners practice getting into the "GO" positio
[00:37.38]This is a point at which people sometimes reconsider whether or not they really want to sky div
[00:44.07]For,as they step out onto the wheel and hang from the wing stru
[00:48.72]the thought of letting to must seem terrifying to the first-time jumpe
[00:53.89]There's also a tremendous amount of imformation that must be learned about chutes.
[00:59.56]For example,it's important to learn how to tell if a chute is good or bad,
[01:04.78]how to steer¹ the chute,and what to do if an emergency related to the chute occur
[01:10.40]Finally,the sky diver must learn how to overcome the fea
[01:15.52]that almost always accompanies a first jump.

1 steer   

vt.驾驶，为…操舵；引导；vi.驾驶

参考例句：

• If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
• It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。