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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – TRUE OR FALSE
Read the text and find out whether the statements A-F is True or False.
Put
A
if the statement is True or put
B
if the statement is False.
TASK 9
A) The expeditions undertaken by Amundsen in the first quarter of the 20th
century were a failure.
B) The attempt to cross the North Pole in the dirigible was a great success for
Amundsen.
C) Amundsen and Nobile quarreled because the credit they received was too
high.
D) Nobile's airship
Italia
crashed and Nobile perished.
E) Amundsen couldn’t save Nobile because the remains
Italia
were found too late.
F) Amundsen died during a brave, risky quest to rescue a friend.
The fame of Amundsen helped him raise money for his expeditions. In 1918, Amundsen set
off on a pioneering voyage through freezing seas close to the North Pole. The expedition
failed, as did a second one in 1922. In May 1926, he succeeded in crossing
the North Pole
during a flight of more than 70 hours from Norway to Alaska;
he was accompanied by the
American explorer Lincoln Ellsworth and the Italian explorer and engineer Umberto Nobile.
This flight was made in the dirigible
Norge
, designed and built by Nobile with the support of
the Italian government.
Though they made friends, Nobile and Amundsen quarrelled, each
claiming that the credit for the flight belonged to his respective country. In 1928, however,
when Nobile’s airship
Italia
was
wrecked during a polar flight, Amundsen, who had retired,
volunteered to search for him. Nobile was eventually rescued, but
Amundsen was last heard
from June 28, 1928, a few hours after he and five others had left Tromsu, Norway, by
airplane. The remains of his airplane were found near Tromsu on August 31.
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