Read the text and do the task below. Underline Complex Object (укажите CO),
Passive Voice (укажите PV). (max. 13 scores).
Model: I was asked (PV) to come at 5p.m. Mum wanted me to wash up. (CO)
Nancy Bird.
Nancy Bird Watson was a pioneering Australian airwoman. In the 1930s,
rejecting the traditional role of females of her time, she became a fully qualified
pilot. She was only 19 at that time.
Nancy Bird wanted to fly almost as soon as she could walk. In 1933, at the
age of 18, her passion drove her to take flying lessons. Sir Charles Kingford
Smith, who was the first man to fly across the mid-Atlantic, had just opened a
flying school near Sydney, and she was among his first pupils. Most women
learnt to fly for fun, but Nancy planned to fly for a living.
Using a legacy of 200 pounds from her aunt plus money loaned by her
father, Nancy bought her first aircraft, a Gipsy Moth. Soon after, Nancy and her
friend Peggy McKillop, took off on a tour, landing at country fairs, giving a ride
to people who had never seen an aircraft before. While touring Nancy met
Reverend Stanley Drummond. He wanted her to start a flying medical service in
Australia. In 1935 Nancy was hired to operate this service. Nancy’s Gipsy Moth
was used an air ambulance. Soon she was able to buy a better-equipped aircraft.
And she began covering more and more distant territory.
During World War II, Nancy trained women to help men flying in Royal
Australian Air Force. She was 24 when she married an Englishman, Charles
Watson. They had two children. In 1950 she founded an Australian Women
Pilots’ Association. She received many honours.
Nancy was never involved in an accident despite the great risks in the early
years of aviation.