СРОЧНО,ОЧЕНЬ НАДО Exercise 2. Complete the text with participle clauses, using the words in brackets. If a participle clause is not possible, use a relative clause. Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart grew up in Kansas, in a middle-class family. (1) … from high school in 1916 (graduate /from school in 1916), she began her first job at Spadna Military Hospital, (2) … (work /as a nursing assistant). Most of the patients were soldiers (3) … (wound /in World War II). In 1918 she fell ill with Spanish influenza and became a patient herself. Later, (4) … (recover), she travelled to California to join her parents, (5) … (move there). (6) … (visit /an airfriend) in Long Beach in 1920, Amelia was offered a ten-minute flight with her father and she fell in love with the idea of becoming a pilot. (7) … (work /as a photographer), a truck driver and stenographer, she managed to save up the $1,000 that it cost to take flying lessons. On May 15th, 1923, she was granted a pilot’s licence. On June 17th, 1928, Amelia flew from Newfoundland and arrived at Burry Port in Wales 20 hours later, (8) … (become /the first woman) to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. When Earhart and her companions returned, they were given a reception by the President, (9) … (receive /them) at the White House. Earhart was determined to do the flight again, but this time of her own. On May 20th, 1932, at the age of thirty-two, she set off from Newfoundland, (10) … (land /at Culmore), Northern Ireland fifteen hours later. Early in 1937, (11) … (buy /a Lockheed Electra 10E), Earhart started planning a round-the-world flight. She left Miami on June 1st, (12) … head /south-east). After stops in South America and elsewhere the plane landed in New Guinea on June 29th, (13) … (cover about 35,000 kilometres). The final part of the journey would be over the Pacific Ocean. (14) … (leave /New Guinea) on July 2nd, Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan headed for Howland Island in the Pasific. But their plane failed to arrive and no trace of Earhart was ever found. For years people have advanced theories about her disappearance but the most likely is that plane, (15) … (run out /of fuel), simply crashed into the sea.

1)Having graduated from high school in 1916

2)she worked as a nursing assistant

3)who had been wounded in World War II

4)having recovered

5)who had moved there

6)Having visited an airfriend

7)having worked as a photographer

8)becoming the first woman

9)who received them

10)landing at Culmore

11)having bought a Lockheed Electra 10E

12)heading southeast

13)having covered about 35,000 kilometers

14)Having left New Guinea on July 2nd

15)ran out of fuel