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Flying across the Channel
1.Do you have any idea what BASE jumping ?

signifies
means
says
tells
2.Apparently it is an where the letters in the word
are the first letters of a group of words.

abbreviation
addition
anomaly
acronym
3.In other words the letters building, antennae, span
and earth, all of which you can jump from.

stand up
stand in
stand for
stand by
4.Felix Baumgartner recently basejumped out of a plane
9,000 metres Dover, a port on the south coast of
England.

up
above
higher
at

5.He intended to across the channel with a
parachute and land on the coast of France near Calais.

fly
flee
flew
flow
6.He started very early in the morning so that he was able
to commercial flights.

evict
avoid
eject
abject
7.During the flight his supporters that he will have
reached 200 kmh.

attain
argue
claim
dispute
8.The fact remains that he and managed with the
help of oxygen supplies to complete the crossing in ten
minutes.

lived
continued
achieved
survived
9.He created a new and joins Louis Bleriot, the first

to fly across the channel in 37 minutes and Matthew
Webb, the first to swim across in 22 hours.

record
recorder
recording
records
10.These are amazing achievements but if like me you
want comfort, warmth and food on the journey, take the
ferry crossing 90 minutes.

during
lasting
duration
while