Form 3 Survival in the Andes

What is the writer doing in the text?

• giving advice on how to survive

• explaining incredible past events

• showing that air travel is dangerous

• writing an imaginative story

2. 2.Why were the three men disappointed?

• The view from the mountain was not very good

• They didn't know how to return to the plane

• They realised they had more problems

• They had not brought enough warm clothes

3. 3. Vizintin returned to the crash site because

• he had lost hope

• he didn't agree with Parrodo's solution

• he didn't want to walk any further

• there wasn't enough food for three people

4. Parrado and Canessa knew 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

3. 5. 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