Question

Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. (8)

At 2 pm on 5 December 1945, five US bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale in the USA for a training flight in perfect weather.

Shortly afterwards, the pilots radioed that their flight instruments were malfunctioning. Two hours after take-off, all contact with

the planes was lost. A reconnaissance plane was immediately dispatched to search for the missing planes. Within 20 minutes,

radio contact with it had also been lost. No trace of any of the planes was ever found. In all, six planes and 27 men had vanished

into the air.

The disappearance of the six planes was far from being the first mysterious incident in the area: for years, navigational problems

and strange magnetic forces had been reported. The disappearance was not even the greatest disaster within the triangle. The

Cyclops, a 19,000- ton US ship, was sailing from Barbados to Norfolk, Virginia. In March 1918, it vanished with its crew of 309 from

the surface of the ocean without making a distress call and without the slightest wreckage ever being found.

The losses of boats and planes in that area defy explanation. The disasters are the origin of a new phrase in the English language –

the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle has been called the Devil’s Triangle, the Triangle of Death and the Graveyard of the

Atlantic. It has swallowed upto 140 ships and planes and more than 1,000 people. Today, many airmen and sailors are still afraid

of that area of the Atlantic Ocean.

Answer the following questions on the basis of the passage you have read.

i) Where was Fort Lauderdale located?

ii) What happened on 5 December 1945?

iii) What happened in March 1918?

iv) What are the different names given to the Bermuda Triangle?

v) Find word from the passage which means ‘not working perfectly’.

vi) ____________ and _____________ are afraid of Bermuda Triangle.

vii) Bermuda Triangle is in Atlantic Ocean. (True/False)

viii) Find antonym of ‘later’ from the passage.

ix) What had been reported for years?

x) It has engulfed about 1000 people and 140 ships. (True / False)​

Answer 1

Answer:

1) Fort Lauderdale in the USA for a training flight in perfect weather.