tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading Sample 78 - Air Traffic Control in the USA

Mời các bạn thử sức bản thân thông qua việc giải những bài tập trong IELTS Academic Reading Sample 78 - Air Traffic Control in the USA sau đây. Tài liệu phục vụ cho các bạn đang chuẩn bị cho kỳ thi sắp tới. | You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26 which are based on the reading passage 78 below Question 14- 19 Reading Passage 78 has seven paragraphs A-G. Choose the correct heading for paragraph A amp C-G from the list below. Write the correct number i-ix in boxes 14- 19 on your answer sheet. List of Headings i Disobeying FAA Regulations ii Aviation disaster prompts action iii Two coincidental developments iv Setting Altitude Zones v An oversimplified view vi Controlling pilots licence vii Defining airspace categories viii Setting rules to weather conditions ix Taking of Safety x First step towards ATC Example Answer Paragraph B X 14. Paragraph A 15. Paragraph C 16. Paragraph D 17 Paragraph E 18. Paragraph F 19 Paragraph G 1 ZIM ACADEMY Room 2501 Ocean Group Building 19 Nguyen Trai Thanh Xuan Dist Hanoi AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL IN THE USA A An accident that occurred in the skies over the Grand Canyon in 1956 resulted in the establishment of the Federal Aviation Administration FAA to regulate and oversee the operation of aircraft in the skies over the United States which were becoming quite congested. The resulting structure of air traffic control has greatly increased the safety of flight in the United States and similar air traffic control procedures are also in place over much of the rest of the world. B Rudimentary air traffic control АТС existed well before the Grand Canyon disaster. As early as the 1920s the earliest air traffic controllers manually guided aircraft in the vicinity of the airports using lights and flags while beacons and flashing lights were placed along cross-country routes to establish the earliest airways. However this purely visual system was useless in bad weather and by the 1930s radio communication was coming into use for АТС. The first region to have something approximating today s АТС was New York City with other major metropolitan areas following soon after. C In the 1940s АТС centres could and did take advantage of the newly .