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3. Find in the text some adjectives and adverbs in the Comparative or the Superlative degree:

a) Give their Positive Degree

b) Give their opposite meaning

4. Answer the questions to the text:

a) What is considered by many to be the greatest advance in aviation since the first flight of the Wright brothers?

b) When was the world's first jet plane flown?

c) What was the first British jet plane?

d) When did the America’s first jet plane fly?

e) What other jet planes are mentioned in this text?

f) What wide-body aircraft do you know?

g) How is it possible to land in America before you take off in Europe?

5. Which of these remarks are true?

a) On May 15, 1941, the first British jet was flown.

b) Hallivand Comet was America's first jet plane.

c) It was the USA that led the world in the development of jet propulsion after the end of World War II.

d) The Soviet Tupolev TU-104 was in wide use during the latter months of 1958.

e) At present up to 390 passengers can ride in the Boeing 747s.

f) The aircraft industries of Britain and France have produced a supersonic airliner Concorde.

6. See the sentence from the text:

It was Britain that led the world in the development of jet propulsion after the end of World War II.

Complete the sentences using the same structure

It was

the Wright brothers

who ...

Frank Whittle

Germany

that ...

a 860 pound-thrust Whittle turbojet

de Havilland Comet

the Viscount

the Soviet Tupolev 104

America's Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8

Britain and France passengers

7. Read the short piece of information about Concorde. Fill each gap with one of the following adjectives or adverbs.

most tested most graceful oldest

fastest earlier

Concorde, the world’s (a) ____________ and (b) ____________ passenger plane, first flew on 2 March 1969, from Toulouse in France.

Concorde was developed by both France and Britain. From 1956 these two countries had a dream of a supersonic passenger plane. In 1962 they started to work together on the project. The plane cost over ‡1.5 billion to develop. It was the (c) ____________ plane in the history of aviation. It was given over 5,000 hours of testing.

Concorde flies at twice the speed of sound. This means that it takes only 3 hours 25 minutes to fly between London and New York, compared with 7-8 hours in other passenger jets. You can catch the 10.30 a.m. flight from London, Heathrow and start work in New York an hour (d) ____________.

Concorde is much used by business people and film stars. But its (e) ____________ passenger was Mrs Ethel Lee from Leicestershire in England. She was 99 years old when she took off from Heathrow on 24 February 1985.

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