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Q 1. Read the given passage and answer the questions. (10 Marks)
One of the modern world’s intriguing sources of mystery has been airplanes vanishing in mid-
flight. One of the more famous of these was the disappearance in 1937 of a pioneer woman
aviator, Amelia Earhart. On the second last stage of an attempted round the world flight, she had
radioed her position as she and her navigator searched desperately for their destination, a tiny
island in the Pacific. The plane never arrived at Howland Island. Did it crash and sink after
running out of fuel? It had been a long haul from New Guinea, a twenty-hour flight covering
some four thousand kilometers. Did Earhart have enough fuel to set down on some other island
on her radioed course? Or did she end up somewhere else altogether? One fanciful theory had
her being captured by the Japanese in the Marshall Islands and later executed as an American
spy; another had her living out her days under an assumed name as a housewife in New Jersey.
Seventy years after Earhart’s disappearance, ‘myth busters’ continue to search for her. She was
the best-known American woman pilot in the world. People were tracking her flight with great
interest when, suddenly, she vanished into thin air. Aircraft had developed rapidly in
sophistication after World War One, with the 1920s and 1930s marked by an aeronautical
record-setting frenzy. Conquest of the air had become a global obsession. While Earhart was
making headlines with her solo flights, other aviators like high-altitude pioneer Wiley Post and
industrialist Howard Hughes were grabbing some glory of their own. But only Earhart, the
reserved tomboy from Kansas who disappeared three weeks shy of her 40th birthday, still grips
the public imagination. Her Reading Comprehension Practice Test Page 11 disappearance has
been the subject of at least fifty books, countless magazine and newspaper articles, and TV
documentaries. It is seen by journalists as the last great American mystery.
There are currently two main theories about Amelia Earhart’s fate. There were reports of distress
calls from the Phoenix Islands made on Earhart’s radio frequency for days after she vanished.
Some say the plane could have broadcast only if it were on land, not in the water. The Coast
Guard and later the Navy, believing the distress calls were real, adjusted their searches, and
newspapers at the time reported Earhart and her navigator were marooned on an island. No-one
was able to trace the calls at the time, so whether Earhart was on land in the Phoenix Islands or
there was a hoaxer in the Phoenix Islands using her radio remains a mystery. Others dismiss the
radio calls as bogus and insist Earhart and her navigator ditched in the water. An Earhart
researcher, Elgen Long, claims that Earhart’s airplane ran out of gas within fifty-two miles of the
island and is sitting somewhere in a 6,000-square-mile area, at a depth of 17,000 feet. At that
depth, the fuselage would still be in shiny, pristine condition if ever anyone were able to locate it.
It would not even be covered in a layer of silt. Those who subscribe to this explanation claim that
fuel calculations, radio calls and other considerations all show that the plane plunged into the sea
somewhere off Howland Island.
Whatever the explanation, the prospect of finding the remains is unsettling to many. To recover
skeletal remains or personal effects would be a grisly experience and an intrusion. They want to
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know where Amelia Earhart is, but that’s as far as they would like to go. As one investigator has
put it, “I’m convinced that the mystery is part of what keeps us interested. In part, we remember
her because she’s our favourite missing person.”
1. What can be a suitable title for this passage? (create)
The great aviator
2. Which theory of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance appeals to you? Give two reasons
to support your answer. (analyze)
There are currently two main theories about Amelia Earhart’s fate. There were reports of
distress calls from the Phoenix Islands made on Earhart’s radio frequency for days after
she vanished. Some say the plane could have broadcast only if it were on land, not in the
water.
3. What was the most convincing evidence that Amelia had crashed on Land?
(analyze)
No the plane have not fuel issue but others problems faced
Seventy years after
Earhart’s disappearance, ‘myth busters’ continue to search for her. She was the best-
known American woman pilot in the world. People were tracking her flight with great
interest when, suddenly, she vanished into thin air
4. What does it mean by, “To recover skeletal remains or personal effects would be a
grisly experience and an intrusion.”? (analyze)
5. Does the fate of Amelia Earhart fascinate you as much as it fascinates the
investigators? Give two reasons to support your answer. (analyze and evaluate)
“I’m convinced that the mystery is part of what keeps us interested. In part, we remember her
because she’s our favourite missing person
Q 2. Write a paragraph of 120-150 words on the topic “Instagram is better than Facebook”
using any ten of the given conjunctions in the list below: (create) (10 Marks)
Capitalization and correct use of punctuation: 2marks
Correct use of articles: 2 marks
Conjunctions: 0.5x10= 5 marks
Grammar: 1 mark
Since, and, although, yet, while, but, when, until, therefore, if, due to, for, however
Anwser no 2:
Facebook providing platforam since 2004 and instagram was launched in 2010. Instagram
not yet popular but this app is much secure as like facebook. Facebook has grown to 2.38 billion users
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while instagarm grown to 1 billion users but Instagram is ever more friendly. And Instagram is a better
mobile experience yet. I have both apps in my mobile but I spent my more social time on Instagram
although I like Instagram. however Instagram has ever better stories integration than facebook.
instagram is a better place for brands and commerce. Instagram has great success due to his safe and
secure message transformation. Instagram is much tricker than facebook .i start my insta id when I was
just 16 year 0ld.
