1 Read the text. Answer the questions.
1 How many airline pilots in Britain are men?
2 Was the author a
nurse before she
became a pilot?
3 How many hours
do you fly when
you are training to
fly passenger
planes?
4 Why is it difficult to fly over Europe?
5 What is it important
for pilots to do when
there is a problem?
6 Who flies the
plane, the captain
or the first officer?
7 Why do passenger planes have two pilots?
8 Read the text again.
Choose the correct
answers: a, b or c.
1 The writer of the article is a
a man. b woman. c child.
2 Passengers
visit the pilots
on a flight
nowadays.
a never b sometimes c often
3 Training to be a pilot is
a less than a year. b one year.
c more than one year.
4 Qualified pilots are checked
a regularly. b occasionally. c every six years.
5 The airspace over Europe is
a exciting. b quiet. c busy.

6 The captain sits the first officer.
a in front of b on the left of c behind