Direction: You have passages with 5 questions in each passage. Read the passages carefully and choose the best answer to each question out of the four alternatives.
Passage
One of the American Navy’s greatest losses during World War II was inflicted not by the Japanese, but by the weather. On the evening of 17 December, 1944, destroyers, cruisers and aircraft carriers of the Third Fleet Task Force 38 were replenishing stocks of food, fuel and ammunition during a sea rendezvous with support ships when a savage tornado struck the Philippine Sea. One of the commanders said later; ‘My ship was riding as though caught in some giant washing machine. We were rolling between heaving cliffs of water, caught in so strong a vice of wind and sea that our 50,000 horse-power engines were helpless.’ It was nine hours before he regained control of his ship, after the fleet had bobbed like helpless shuttlecocks, unable to prevent collisions in the sledge hammer waves.
SOME IMPORTANT WORDS
ammunition : a supply of bullets, etc. to be fired from guns.
rendezvous : a place where people have arranged to meet.
savage : violent tornado : a violent storm with very strong winds which move in a circle.
heaving : rising up and down with strong, regular movements.
bobbed : moved or made something move quickly up and down, especially in water. inflicted : suffered repleneshing : refilling cliffs of water : rocks of water collision : a severe crash between two vehicles/ people sledge hammer : large and heavy (waves) (waves)