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Unit 2 Sailing the oceans
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I am proud to have sailed with Captain Bligh ______his journey of ______ 40 days ______ about 4,000miles in an open boat _______ the Pacific Ocean in 1789. Our outward voyage in the "Bounty" to Tahiti had been _______(fill) with the kind of incidents. On our ______(depart) from Tahiti, some of the crew took over the ship. They deposited the captain into a small boat to let him find his own way home. Those of us ______ ______(catch) in a dilemma. We had no charts and the only instruments the captain was allowed _____ ______(take) with him were a compass and a quadrant.
Once we were at sea, our routine every day was the same. At _______ and sunset the captain measured our position ______(use) the quadrant and set the course using the compass. It was _______( extreme) difficult for us to get a correct reading from the quadrant as the boat moved constantly. The captain used a system______( called) "dead reckoning". He knew there was land directly northwest of our original position. In addition, the captain kept us all busy ______( read) the tables to work out our position. ________ this took a great deal of time, it didn't matter. Time was, after all, ______ we had a lot of!
Our ______( day) food was shared _______( equal) among us all. It was starvation quantities but the extreme lack of water was the hardest to cope with psychologically. All the time the captain tried to preserve our good spirits______ telling stories and talking _________( hope) about what we would do______ we got back to England.
The tension in the boat got _______(bad) as the supply of food and water gradually disappeared. We could foresee that we would die______ we could not reach land very soon and we sank gradually into a sleepy, half-alive state. The determined captain kept us busy and tried to take our minds off our stomachs and our thirst. He kept us ______( live).
You could not imagine a more disturbing sight _______ what we looked like when _________( arrive) in Timor over forty days _______ being set loose in our small boat. Our clothes were torn, we had fever and our faces showed the _______( hardship) we had suffered. But after a rest, some good meals and some new clothes, everything changed. We were the heroes who had escaped the jaws of _______ by completing the greatest navigational feat of all time!
II．用所给词的适当形式填空
1.I don’t know why he ______（deposit）a pile of books on my desk.
2. No one could have______(foresee)that things would turn out this way.
3. What I said made them _____(roar) with laughter just now.
4.The police _____(swoop) on the trucks as they left the city.
5. You can enjoy all the water sports, or ______(simplify) lie on the beach.
6.Millions of children in Africa are facing ________(starve) now.
7. It is she that made me aware of my own __________(shortcoming).
8.People suffered many______ (hardship) during the war.
9.She made no _______(refer) to her illness but only to her future plans.
10.As soon as they arrived on the island, they were eager to_______(exploration).
III. 选择最佳答案
1. The bridge______1000 meters was built last year.
A. measures B. measuring C. measured D. being measured
2. If I were you, I wouldn’t ______in the problem.
A. involve B. involved C. get involved D get involving
3. There is little chance that mankind would ____ a nuclear war.
A. remain B. endure C. maintain D.survive
4. ---Is this raincoat yours?
----No, mine ______there behind the door.
A. hangs B. is hanging C. has hung D. is hanged
5.The fact that she never apologized _____a lot about what kind of person she is.
A. says B. talks C. appears D. declares
6.--I’m still working on my project. ---Oh, you’ll miss the deadline. Time is _____.
A. running out B. going out C. giving out D. losing out
7. I ____it as a basic principle of the company that suppliers of raw material should be given a fair price for their products. A. make B. look C. take D. think
8. The film ______ a great success and brought in a large profit to the cinema.
A. appreciated B. enjoyed C. won D. seized
9.______ there was no conclusive evidence, most people thought he was guilty.
A. When B. As far as C. As long as D. While
10. On hearing the news of the accident in the coal mine, she ______ pale.
A. got B. changes C. went D. appears
11.Happy birthday, Alice! So you have _____twenty-one already.
A. gone B. turned C. grown D. passed
12.The flowers _____sweet in the botanic garden, which attracted the visitors to the beauty of nature. A. to smell B. smelled C. smelling D. are smelled
13. Having a trip abroad is certainly nice for old couples, but it remains _____whether they will enjoy it. A. to be seen B. to see C. seeing D. seen
14. —You haven’t said a word about my new coat, Brenda. Do you like it?
-----I’m sorry I ______anything about it sooner. I certainly think it’s pretty on you.
A. wasn’t saying B. don’t say C. won’t say D. didn’t say
15. Maybe you have been to many countries, but nowhere else _____such a beautiful palace.
A. can you find B. you could find C. you can find D. could you find

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