The city of Kota Kinabalu is the capital of Sabah. It is located on the west coast of “the Land Below the Wind”. Kota Kinabalu has an international airport, world class hotels, countless restaurants and cafe shops, shopping malls and business districts. It has about 350,000 inhabitants. 

1. Where is Kota Kinabalu located?

A. below the wind
B. on land
C. on the west coast of Sabah
D. on the west side of the International Airport

2. Who comes to Kota Kinabalu?

A. the foreigners and locals
B. headhunters
C. people of the Murut and Rungus longhouses
D. the Japanese

3. All the items below can be found in the State Museum except …

A. totemic figures
B. olden pottery
C. animal figures
D. human skulls

4. Why was there a War Memorial in Sabah?

A. to attract foreign and local tourist
B. to reward the Japanese with a memorial
C. to remember the people’s sacrifice to defend Sabah
D. to remember the Japanese’s sacrifice to defend Sabah

5. A ‘birds eye view’ can be described as..

A. the sight of the birds
B. an elevated view
C. a direct view
D. a view from Signal Hill Observatory

     One of the modern world’s intriguing sources of mystery has been aeroplanes vanishing in mid-flight. One of the more famous of these was the disappearance in 1937 of a pioneer woman aviator, Amelia Earhart. On the second last stage of an attempted round the world flight, she had radioed her position as she and her navigator searched desperately for their destination, a tiny island in the Pacific.

     The plane never arrived at Howland Island. Did it crash and sink after running out of fuel? It had been a long haul from New Guinea, a twenty hour flight covering some four thousand kilometres. Did Earhart have enough fuel to set down on some other island on her radioed course? Or did she end up somewhere else altogether? One fanciful theory had her being captured by the Japanese in the Marshall Islands and later executed as an American spy; another had her living out her days under an assumed name as a housewife in New Jersey.

     Seventy years after Earhart’s disappearance, ‘myth busters’ continue to search for her. She was the best-known American woman pilot in the world. People were tracking her flight with great interest when, suddenly, she vanished into thin air. Aircraft had developed rapidly in sophistication after World War One, with the 1920s and 1930s marked by an aeronautical record-setting frenzy. Conquest of the air had become a global obsession. While Earhart was making headlines with her solo flights, other aviators like high-altitude pioneer Wiley Post and industrialist Howard Hughes were grabbing some glory of their own. 

     Whatever the explanation, the prospect of finding the remains is unsettling to many. To recover skeletal remains or personal effects would be a grisly experience and an intrusion. They want to know where Amelia Earhart is, but that’s as far as they would like to go. As one investigator has put it, “I’m convinced that the mystery is part of what keeps us interested. In part, we remember her because she’s our favourite missing person.”

6. Amelia Earhart’s nationality was

A. English
B. Australian
C. Canadian
D. American
E. South African

7. All the following are theories about Amelia’s fate EXCEPT

A. she crashed on a remote island somewhere near her destination.
B. her plane ran out of fuel and crashed into the sea.
C. she was captured by the Japanese and executed as a spy.
D. she escaped incognito and lived under an assumed name.
E. she crashed somewhere on Howland Island.

8. The most convincing evidence that Amelia crashed somewhere on land was

A. the finding of aircraft remains.
B. sightings by islanders.
C. radio contact with the coastguard from the Phoenix Islands.
D. distress signals from the Phoenix Islands on her particular radio frequency.
E. All of these.