Around twenty people were missing Wednesday after a TransAsia Airways flight clipped its wing on a bridge shortly after takeoff from Taipei and then crashed into a nearby river, killing at least 23. There are 58 people on board, 53 passengers and 5 crews. The number of death was expected to rise. 

Rescuers rushed to the scene of the crash, where a large party of the plane out of the Keelung River with one wing missing. Hours later, emergency personnel crowded around what remained of the plane. Cranes were brought to the river to lift up the wreckage. As night fell in Taiwan, 20 people were still missing. Wu Jun-Hong, a Taipei Fire Department official who was in charge the rescue, said “At the moment, things don’t look too optimistic.” Wu told reporters at the scene. “Those in the front of the plane have little chance of surviving.”

Dashcam footage from vehicles on a highway beside the river showed the plane banked sharply to its left after taking off, just missing apartment blocks, then its left wing clipping the side of the highway. A taxi on the bridge was hit as the plane went down, injuring the driver. Wednesday’s flight had taken off from Taipei’s downtown Sungshan Airport. It is reported that the ATR72-600 model is the TransAsia’s best plane and said the pilot had 4,900 hours of flying experience. The plane’s “black boxes” were recovered and TV footage showed them in apparently decent condition. 

It was the second of TransAsia’s French-made ATR 72 to crash in the past year. Last July, a flight crashed while trying to land on the island of Penghu off Taiwan’s coast, killing 48 people and injuring another 10. Stormy weather was suspected as factors in that crash.

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1.From the passage we can know the Keelung River ______.

A is far away from Taipei

B is not very deep at all

C is covered with thick ice

D is the longest in Taiwan

解析：选B。B。推理判断题。从文章第二段第一句的where a large party of the plane out of the Keelung River with one wing missing可以得知，飞机的大半部分还在水面上，据此可以推知基隆河“很浅”。

2.What Wu Jun-Hong said means ______.

A cranes would have difficulty lifting up the plane

B it was impossible to rescue after the night fell.

C the passengers are likely to have lost their lives.

D the scene of the crash is very hard to get close to

解析：选C。C。推理判断题。根据第二段最后一句的"Those in the front of the plane have little chance of surviving."可知，他的话意味着那些乘客生还的机会很小，也就是说他们可能去世了。

3.What happened after the plane took off?

A It hit apartment blocks.

B It hit a taxi quickly.

C It went up sharply.

D It lost its right wing.

解析：选B。B。细节理解题。根据第三段第二句的A taxi on the bridge was hit as the plane went down, injuring the driver可以得知，飞机撞上了一辆出租车。

4.How many people died in last year’s ATR 72 crash?

A 10

B 23

C 48

D 58

解析：选C。C。细节理解题。 根据第四段第二句的killing 48 people and可知，去年该公司的ATR 72飞机发生空难造成48人死亡。

5.From the passage we can know ______.

A the pilot of ATR72-600 was not good at driving the plane.

B rescuers came to the spot as soon as the accident happened.

C the "black boxes" of the ATR-600 have been found already.

D TransAsia Airway was going to pay for money for the dead.

解析：选C。C。细节理解题。根据第三段第五句的The plane's "black boxes" were recovered and TV footage showed them in apparently decent condition可知飞机的黑匣子已经找到了。