10-08-2016, 07:04 PM
(08-08-2016, 06:39 PM)shahraam نوشته:Simin sent me the following as her answers today. I'll comment on them later./0
a. Christmas in 1959
b. Vast…australian deserts
c. 2 passengers were unconscious
d. Some passengers who ate beef were fine but some passengers who choose fish were ill
e. Because it cause general panic
f. He flew single engine-5 type plane 15 years ago. But that was 4 engins
Thank you Simin for taking the time to answer the questions. Here are my comments on your answers./00
a. Not exactly. It was Christmas Eve 1959. Christmas Eve is on December 24 and Christmas Day is on December 25./0
b. Very close but the correct answer is "The vast blackness of the Australian desert below"./1
c. Correct
d. Conceptually correct but with grammatical errors. The following is better./2
Some passengers who ate the beef were fine but others who chose the fish were ill./2
e. Again, conceptually correct but grammatically wrong. It should be changed to something like "Because it would have caused general panic"./3
f. There is no question f but anyways the sentence should be "He used to fly single-engine fighter planes 15 years ago but this was a commercial aircraft with four engines./4
a. Not exactly. It was Christmas Eve 1959. Christmas Eve is on December 24 and Christmas Day is on December 25./0
b. Very close but the correct answer is "The vast blackness of the Australian desert below"./1
c. Correct
d. Conceptually correct but with grammatical errors. The following is better./2
Some passengers who ate the beef were fine but others who chose the fish were ill./2
e. Again, conceptually correct but grammatically wrong. It should be changed to something like "Because it would have caused general panic"./3
f. There is no question f but anyways the sentence should be "He used to fly single-engine fighter planes 15 years ago but this was a commercial aircraft with four engines./4
BASc Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
