Some people are afraid of flying. They are worried that the plane will crash or that someone may
hijack it. A person who hijacks a plane usually says he will blow up the plane if he does not get money.
Sometimes hijackers do not want money, however. They want other things. They some -times want their
friends let out of jail or to go to another country.
The first hijacking happened on 16 June 1948 on a plane traveling from Macau to Hong Kong. Some
men with guns told the pilot they wanted, money. The pilot fought them, but the h
ijackers shot him. The
plane crashed into the sea, and nearly everyone in it died. Only one man lived. His name was Wong-yu
Man. When the police brought the plane out of the sea, they looked at it very carefully and found bullet
holes in the walls of the plane. They k
new then that there had been a hijack.
A policeman sat near Wong-yu Man's bed in the hospital. Before long Wong-yu started to talk in his
sleep. "Where are my men?" he said. "Ar
e they all right
? Did they get the money?" The policeman wrote
everything down. He knew Wong-yu's words meant something. He thought Wong-yu was one of the
hijackers. He was right. When Wong-yu came out of hospital, he went to jail for a long time.
l. The story is about _____.
2. When they, fly, some people are afraid _____.
A. the plane will crash or be hijacked
B. their friends will go to jail
C. someone will get a lot of money
D. the police will
take them to jail
3. The first hijacking happened in Macau in _____.
A. July 1948
B. March 1938
C. March 1948
D. June 1948
4. The plane crashed because _____.
A. he police shot the plane
B. the pilot got sick
C. the hijacker blew up the plane
D. the hijacker shot the pilot