Question

I. Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow:

Air France Plane Missing Near Bermuda Triangle
June 1, 2009: An Air France plane is missing . The Agence France -Presse reported that an Air France Airbus A330-200 wide body jet carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew disappeared from the radar screens on Monday somewhere off Brazil’s Atlantic coast.
Flight AF 447 out of Rio de Janeiro was headed for Paris. According to the Mirror , Air France reported that the plane had radioed in that they were going through turbulence. They also reported that a message , signalling electrical circuit malfunction, was received before it disappeared.
A search for the missing plane is being conducted by the Brazilian Air Force . The French are also involved in the search.
Another well known case in 1962 vividly brings home the need for careful behind -the-scenes probing. Once again ,it involves an aircraft.
The date was January 8,1962. A huge 4 engine KB-50 aerial tanker was en route from the east coast to Lajes in the Azores. The captain , Major Bob Tawney, reported at the expected time. All was normal , routine. But he, his crew and big tanker ,never made it to the Azores. Apparently , the last word from the flight had been that routine report, a report which had placed them a few hundred miles off the east coast.
FLASH! The media broadcast , fed by a sincere Coast Guard ,that a large oil slick was sighted 300 miles off Norfolk, Virginia, in the plane’s proposed route. The mystery could be breaking.
But that was the only clue ever found.Although never proved ,it was from the plane , publicly the suspicions were obvious; the tanker and its qualified crew met a horrid and sudden death by crashing headlong into the sea.
However ,the report,which was finished months later, confirmed no such thing.Tawney had been clearly overheard by a Navy transport hours after his last message.This placed him north of Bermuda, hundreds of miles past the spot of the oil slick. There is no evidence ,therefore , that the plane and its crew ever met any known fate.

I.1 On the basis of your reading of the passage, answer the following questions. (2x2)
a. According to the passage ,what did The Agence -Presse report?
b. What facts would you select to show the turbulence occured during flight AF 447?
I.2. Complete the following : (1x2)
a. There is no evidence
b. The plane was searched by

I.3. Fill in the blanks with one word only: (½x4)
The pilot (a) _____the interviewer that he was on board the plane. He told of his position to the (b) _____________room. But later something strange (c) ____________. There was a lot of distance. In a question, if he(d) _______________to contact the control room,the pilot replied that he tried to send SOS but couldn't.
I.4 Find a word from the passage that means the same as following: (1x2)

a. vanished =
b. on the way =

Answer 1

1.1 (a)The Agence France -Presse reported that an Air France Airbus A330-200 wide body jet carrying 216 passengers and 12 crew disappeared from the radar screens on Monday somewhere off Brazil’s Atlantic coast.

(b)Air France reported that the plane had radioed in that they were going through turbulence. They also reported that a message , signalling electrical circuit malfunction, was received before it disappeared.

1.2 (a)There is no evidence ,therefore , that the plane and its crew ever met any known fate.

(b) The plane was searched by Brazillian Air Force.The French were also involved in the search.

1.3(a)told

(b) control

(c) happened

(d)tried

1.4(a) disappeared

(b)headed