Amelia Earhart was born in Kansas in 1897. Thirty one years later, she received a phone call that would change her life. She was invited to become the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a plane. The flight took more than 20 hours – about three times longer than it routinely takes today to cross the Atlantic by plane. Earhart was twelve years old before she ever saw an airplane, and she didn’t take her first flight until 1920. But she was so thrilled by her first experience in a plane that she quickly began to take flying lessons. She wrote, “As soon as I left the ground, I knew I myself had to fly.”
After that flight Earhart became a media sensation. She was given a ticker tape parade down Broadway in New York and even President Coolidge called to congratulate her. Because her record-breaking career and physical appearance were similar to pioneering pilot and American hero Charles Lindbergh, she earned the nickname “Lady Lindy.” She wrote a book about her flight across the Atlantic, called 20 Hrs., 40 Min.
Earhart continued to break records, and also polished her skills as a speaker and writer, always advocating women’s achievements, especially in aviation. Her next goal was to achieve a transatlantic crossing alone. In 1927 Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic. Five years later, Earhart became the first woman to repeat that feat. Her popularity grew even more and she was the undisputed queen of the air. She then wanted to fly around the world, and in June 1937 she left Miami with Fred Noonan as her navigator. No one knows why she left behind important communication and navigation instruments. Perhaps it was to make room for additional fuel for the long flight. The pair made it to New Guinea in 21 days and then left for Howland Island, a tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The last communication from Earhart and Noonan was on July 2, 1937 with a nearby Coast Guard ship. The United States Navy conducted a massive search for more than two weeks but no trace of the plane or its passengers was ever found. Many people believe they got lost and simply ran out of fuel and died.

32. With which of the following subjects is the passage mainly concerned?
(a) The history of aviation
(b) The tragic death of the queen of air
(c) Achievements of early aviation pioneers
(d) The achievements of a pioneering aviatrix

33. According to the passage, which of the following statements about Earhart is NOT true?
(a)She wrote a book about her solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, called 2o hrs.,40 min.
(b) In her last adventure, she didn’t take communication and navigation instruments by accident, and that led to the tragedy.
(c) She is regarded as the female Chare Lindbergh in aviation.
(d) She was in her late twenties when she took her first flight.

34. According to the passage, when did Amelia Earhart began her first flight
(a) when she was 12 years old
(b) 1920
(c) when she first saw an airplane
(d) when she started to take flying lessons.

35. The word “sensation” in line 8 is closest in meaning to
(a) feeling
(b) hit
(c) excitement
(d) perception

36. Amelia Earhart was called “Lady Lindy” because
(a) she was the undisputed queen of the air.
(b) President Coolidge gave her the nickname.
(c) she repeated Charles Lindbergh’s feat.
(d) of her career and her physical resemblance to Lindbergh

37. The word “undisputed” in line18 is closest in meaning to
(a) contemporary
(b) undeceived
(c) dissipated
(d)undoubted

38. The word “it” in line 20 refers to
(a) plane
(b) communication
(c) the reason
(d) aviation.

39. The word “massive” in line 25 is closest in meaning to
(a) substantial
(b) general
(c) large
(d) careful

40. It may be inferred from the passage that Amelia Earhart
(a) would not have developed her love of flying if she had not been invited to
become the first woman passenger to cross the Atlantic in a plane.
(b) Would have continued to seek new adventures and records to break if she had not died at the age of 39.
(c) became too confident and took too many risks to be able to live to old age.
(d) did not want to return to the United States.