Read the text and choose from the list (A-I) the sentence which best summarises each part (1-7) of the article.

A A flying start

B A chance of a lifetime

C A mysterious disappearance

D A strong partnership

E The uncertainty continues

F A risky business

G A shining example

H A change of direction

I An unusual beginning

Where are you?

“… decide whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying”

Amelia Earhart.

Possibly the most famous female pilot ever, Amelia Earhart was born in 1897 in Kansas, USA. Amelia had a difficult and unsettled childhood. Her family travelled a great deal so her father could find work. Although she often missed school, Amelia was nevertheless considered to be very bright academically. She enjoyed reading and poetry, as well as sports, especially basketball and tennis.

After graduating from high school, instead of going to college, Amelia decided to study nursing. During the First World War, she worked as a military nurse in Canada. When the war ended, she became a social worker back in America and taught English to immigrants. In her free time, Amelia enjoyed going to air shows and watching aerial stunts, which were very popular during the 1920s. Her fascination with flying began when, at one of these shows, she took a ten-minute plane ride, and from that moment on she knew she had to learn to fly.

Amelia took on several odd jobs to pay for the flying lessons and, after a year, she had saved enough money to buy her own plane. In 1922, she began taking part in record-breaking attempts and stunts and promoting flying for women. She organised cross-country air races for women pilots and formed a now famous women pilots’ orzanisation, called the " Ninety-Nines".

During this time it is reported that Amelia had many crashes. In those days planes were very unreliable and most of her accidents were probably the result of engine failure. However, Amelia's first instructor and close friend, Anita Snook, later admitted that she had had her doubts about Amelia's skills as a pilot and her ability to take on the death defying feats and the long distance flights she became famous for.

Flying was still only a hobby for Amelia, who continued to teach, until one day she received an invitation to be the first woman ever to make the flight across the Atlantic from Canada to Britain. Amelia made the flight in 1928 and, although she was only a passenger and two men flew the plane, it made her a celebrity. She also met her future husband, George Putman, a publisher, who arranged the flight and organised all the publicity.

In 1932 Amelia and George, who were now married, decided Amelia should make the Atlantic crossing from America to Britain alone. She broke several records on this flight; she became the first woman to fly the Atlantic solo, the only person to have flown it twice and she established a new transatlantic crossing record of 13 hours and 30 minutes. Understandably, she became even more famous as a result, earning respect for women pilots all over the world by proving that women could fly just as well as men, if not better.

In June 1937, Amelia took her final flight. Together with Fred Noonan, her navigator, she set out from Miami, Florida in an attempt to fly around the world. From Miami, they successfully flew toSouth America, from there to Africa and then across the Sahara Desert to Thailand, Singapore, Java and Australia. However, somewhere between New Guinea and Howland Island, their next port of call, Amelia's plane disappeared. The last message the coast guard received from Amelia said that she couldn't see the island due to bad weather and that fuel was running out. She never arrived. The US Navy searched for days, but there was no sign of the plane. No wreckage or bodies were ever found.

Mystery still surrounds the disappearance of Amelia Earhart. There have been many theories about what happened to her. Some say that Amelia was a spy for the American government and had been sent on a secret mission and was captured. Others believe she spent the rest of her life living on a desert island, while others think that she deliberately crashed her plane into the Pacific. No one knows the truth, although the most likely explanation is that Amelia ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea and that she and her plane are still lying somewhere off Howland Island, at the bottom of the sea.

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