Complete the story with a
correct linking word or expression. LARRY FOLLOWS HIS DREAM
1 Larry Waiters was a truck driver, but his lifetime
dream was to fly aeroplanes.
пустоfirst of all he would watch the fighter jets criss-crossing
the skies above his back garden and dream about the magic of flying. пустоNext , he
had an idea. He drove to the nearest hardware shop and bought twenty large
balloons and five tanks of helium. пустоFinally , they were not normal brightly-coloured
party balloons but heavy one-metre weather balloons used by meteorologists.
2 Back in his garden, пустоHowever , Larry used a rope to tie
a chair to his car door. пустоBy this time he tied the balloons to the chair and inflated
them, one by one. пустоin order to , he packed a few sandwiches and a bottle of Coke,
loaded an air-pistol, and climbed on to the chair. His plan was to float up
lazily into the sky to about sixty metres, and then to pop a few balloons пустоso
descend to earth again.
3 His preparations complete, Larry cut the rope. пустоAs soon as ,
he didn't float up, he shot up, as if he had been fired from a cannon! Not to
sixty metres, but up and up and up, пустоuntil about 3,500 metres. If he had popped
any balloons at this height, he would have plummeted to earth, пустоFortunately, just at that moment he just
had to stay up there, floating around and wondering what to do.
4 пустоImmediately , night was falling and things were getting
serious. Winds were blowing Larry out to sea. пустоUnfortunately an amazed British Airways
pilot spotted him and radioed the airport saying he'd just seen a man with a gun,
sitting on a garden chair at 3,500 metres. пустоEventually a helicopter was sent to
rescue him, but it wasn't easy пустоThen, one day the wind from their rotor blades kept
pushing the home-made airship further away. пустоbecause , they managed to drop a line
down from above, and pulled him to safety. 5 пустоAll day long he was on the ground he was arrested. A TV
reporter shouted, 'Hey mate, why did you do it" Larry looked him in the
eye, and said, 'A man's got to follow his dreams’.