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SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE NAME: GROUP: TEACHER'S NAME: DATE: / READING Read a passage about Amelia Earhart. For questions 1 to 6, choose the best answer according to the text. The life Amelia Mary Earhart was, and still is, an American icon. An aviation pioneer, she became not only the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean but also the first of Amelia person to fly over both the Atlantic and the Pacific. Amelia is also one of history's Earhart most favorite missing people. In 1937, at the age of 40, she set out on her last adventure and disappeared while attempting to fly across the globe. Amelia was born in 1897, in Kansas but it was not until she attended an air fair with her father in 1920 that she became interested in flying. During the visit, Frank Hawks (who later gained fame as an air racer) gave her a ride that would forever change her life. "By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground," she said, "I knew I had to fly." After that ten-minute flight, which cost her father ten dollars, she became determined to learn to fly. She worked various jobs in order to save money for flying lessons and even saved enough to buy her own airplane which she nicknamed 'The Canary' because of its bright yellow color. Only two years later, in 1922, Amelia Earhart broke the women's world record for high-altitude, flying at 14,000 feet. Besides her accomplishments in aviation, she was also a writer. Her first book, entitled 20 Hrs. 40 Min., depicted her adventures as the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. In the autobiography and memoir, The Fun of It, she detailed her life as a pilot and what she believed the role of women was in modern flight. Her last book was published posthumously by her husband George Putnam. It was called Last Flight and detailed her journal entries in her attempt to fly around the world. 161