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D.Education

profreadm02D

Dimitris Sclias

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question 1

profreadm02 part4 D

Read the passage and answer the questions that follow by choosing the
correct answer a, b, c or d. -> only one answer is correct.

The number of icebergs found in North Atlantic shipping lanes varies surprisingly. In 1912, when the Titanic was lost, there were 1019; in 1924, only 11. The year 1957 was bad - nearly 1200 were spoted. Then, in 1958, only one berg was sighted below the 48th parallel, and no surface ice patrol was necessary.
In 1959 there were more than 700 bergs, and an unaccountably large number of them penetrated to extreme positions - east and west, as well as south. The ice congestion caused transatlantic traffic to be rerouted to the most southerly of the three steamship tracks, where ships were last assigned in 1946. In May a big burg turned up even in this "safe" emergency route. Somehow, in spite of scouting aircraft and the probing radar of Ice Patrol cutters, the berg had sneaked through in thick weather. How many ships had swept past in the dark of night or in fog or blinding storm will never be known. In a bad ice area skippers sometimes heave to and drift when darkness falls or thick fog closes in. Most ship captains, however, including the late skipper of the Titanic, plow along, regardless of the fog, darkness and ice, determined to maintain the transoceanic schedule set by their steamship lines. In at least two cases, at night, an ice patrol cutter has had to send "Iceberg Dead Ahead." signals by blinker to freighters whose wireless operators were apparently off duty. In another case a cutter had to play its searchlight over an iceberg before an oncoming ship would change its course.

96. The number of icebergs a year in the North Atlantic...

a. has remained constant b. seems to be decreasing
c. is not constant d. is increasing

97. In 1959, icebergs were particularly troublesome because...

a. there were so many of them
b. they were found outside their usual limits
c. they went so far south
d. transatlantic traffic had been rerouted

98. The berg that turned up in the emergency route...

a. caused a lot of damage
b. had been spotted by aircraft and ice Patrol boats
c. had evaded the aircraft and the patrols
d. swept past numerous ships

99. In the area where icebergs have been reported, most ship captains...

a. try to dodge them
b. stop their ships and float along
c. ignore the danger and maintain their speed
d. turn round and sail back

100. When a ship seems about to collide with a berg, the Ice Patrol cutter will...

a. send radio messages
b. shine a searchlight on the ship
c. shine a searchlight on the berg
d. sail between the berg and the ship

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