I. Read the following passage carefully and answer the following questions
At 2 pm on 5 December 1945, five US bombers took off from Fort Lauderdale in the USA
for a training flight in perfect weather. Shortly afterwards, the pilots radioed that their flight
instruments were malfunctioning. Two hours after take-off, all contact with the planes was
lost. A reconnaissance plane was immediately dispatched to search for the missing planes.
Within 20 minutes, radio contact with it had also been lost. No trace of any of the planes
was ever found. In all, six planes and 27 men had vanished into the air.
The disappearance of the six planes was far from being the first mysterious incident in
the area: for years, navigational problems and strange magnetic forces had been reported.
The disappearance was not even the greatest disaster within the triangle. The Cyclops, a
19,000- ton US ship, was sailing from Barbados to Norfolk, Virginia. In March 1918, it
vanished with its crew of 309 from the surface of the ocean without making a distress call
and without the slightest wreckage ever being found.
The losses of boats and planes in that area defy explanation. The disasters are the origin
of a new phrase in the English language – the Bermuda Triangle. The Bermuda Triangle has
been called the Devil’s Triangle, the Triangle of Death and the Graveyard of the Atlantic. It
has swallowed upto 140 ships and planes and more than 1,000 people. Today, many airmen
and sailors are still afraid of that area of the Atlantic Ocean.
a. Where was the Fort Lauderdale located?
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b. Narrate the incident that occurred on 5 December 1945.
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c. What do you understand by the Bermuda Triangle?
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d. Why is Bermuda Triangle called as the Devil’s Triangle?
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e. What is The Cyclops? What is its fate?
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II. Fill in the blanks with suitable word given in the brackets.
The Holocaust was a systematic elimination and killing ..................... (for, in, with, of) six
million Jews ........................ (by, in, to, for) the Nazi rule and its collaborators. The Nazis came
to power ........................ (for, in, with, of) Germany in January 1933 and believed that
Germans were ‘racially superior’ and that the Jews, deemed ‘inferior’, were a threat
................... (for, to, into, onto) the so-called German racial community. In 1933, there were
over nine million Jews in Europe and most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi
Germany would go .................... (in, into, on, for) to occupy or influence during World War II.
By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two ............. (out, into, on, for) of
every three European Jews as part of the Nazi policy to murder the Jews ................ (by, in, to,
for) Europe. Between 1941 and 1944, Nazi German authorities deported millions of Jews to
ghettos and to killing centres, often called extermination camps. Here, the Jews were
murdered in specially developed gassing facilities.
III. Write a narrative description on the fight that you engaged recently.
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