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256. advanced-13
English Grammar / Incomplete Sentences / Advanced level # 13 (Answer Keys)
Flying across the Channel
 
A1
Do you have any idea what BASE jumping means?
answer: (b) means
A2
Apparently it is an acronym where the letters in the word are the first letters of a group of words.
answer: (d) acronym
A3
In other words the letters stand for building, antennae, span and earth, all of which you can jump from.
answer: (c) stand for
A4
Felix Baumgartner recently basejumped out of a plane 9,000 metres above Dover, a port on the south coast of
England.
answer: (b) above
A5
He intended to fly across the channel with a parachute and land on the coast of France near Calais.
answer: (a) fly
A6
He started very early in the morning so that he was able to avoid commercial flights.
answer: (b) avoid
A7
During the flight his supporters claim that he will have reached 200 kmh.
answer: (c) claim
A8
The fact remains that he survived and managed with the help of oxygen supplies to complete the crossing in
ten minutes.
answer: (d) survived
A9
He created a new record and joins Louis Bleriot, the first to fly across the channel in 37 minutes and Matthew
Webb, the first to swim across in 22 hours.
answer: (a) record
A10
These are amazing achievements but if like me you want comfort, warmth and food on the journey, take the
ferry crossing lasting 90 minutes.
answer: (b) lasting

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