Unit 7 : Extreme Situations (Reading)

Unit 7 : Extreme Situations (Reading)

Textbook page 84 & 85

Read this article and answer the following questions

...continue

Multiple Choice

What is the writer doing in this text?

• giving advice on how to survive

• explaining incredible past events

• showing that air travel is dangerous

• writing an imaginative story

Multiple Choice

Why were the three men disappointed?

• the view from the mountain was not very good

• they did not know how to return to the plane

• they realised they had more problems

• they had not brought enough warm clothes

Multiple Choice

Vizintin returned to the crash site because ...

• he had lost hope

• he did not agree with Parado's solution

• he did not want to walk any further

• there was not enough food for three people

Multiple Choice

Parrado and Canessa know they were close to safety because ...

• they saw things that belonged to people

• they discovered a river

• they had been walking for ten days

• there were flowers in the snow

Multiple Choice

Which best describes what happened to the people on Flight 571?

• The survivors of the crash waited for many weeks in the plane for someone to find and rescue them

• Tragically, 29 people died when the plane they were travelling in crashed into a mountain in the Andes

• In a terrible situation, and with no hope at all, the survivors found a way to save themselves

• To stay warm in the freezing cold, they wore the clothes of the people who had died in the crash