- 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
