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56yearold becomes 1st woman to swim Atlantic
(AP)－Jennifer Figge pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand, excited and exhausted as she touched land this week for the first time in almost a month. Reaching a beach in Trinidad, she became the first woman on record to swim across the Atlantic Ocean—a dream she'd had since the early 1960s,when a stormy transAtlantic (飞越大西洋) flight got her thinking she could wear a life vest and swim the rest of the way if needed.
The 56yearold left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa's western coast on Jan.12,2009, swimming 19 out of 25 days battling waves of up to 30 feet.The distance from Cape Verde to Trinidad is about 700 miles.Crewmembers are still computing exactly how many miles she swam.
The original plan was for her to swim to the Bahamas—a distance of about 2,100 miles—but inclement (恶劣的) weather forced her to change her plans and she arrived at Trinidad on Feb.5.She now plans to swim from Trinidad to the British Virgin Islands,ending her voyage at the Bitter End Yacht Club in late February.
Her journey came a decade after French swimmer Benoit Lecomte made the first known solo transAtlantic swim,covering nearly 4,000 miles from Massachusetts to France in 73 days.No woman on record had made the crossing.
Figge wore a red cap and wet suit,with her only goodluck charm (护身符) underneath:an old,red shirt to guard against chafing (磨痛),signed by friends,relatives and her father,who recently died.The other cherished (珍惜) possession she kept onboard was a picture of Gertrude Ederle,an American who became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.“We have a few things in common,”Figge said,“She wore a red hat and she was of German descent (血统).We both talked to the sea,and neither one of us wanted to get out.”
【小题1】When did Jennifer Figge want to swim across the Atlantic Ocean？
| A．After she reached a beach in Trinidad. |
| B．After she pressed her toes into the Caribbean sand. |
| C．After her stormy transAtlantic flight in the early 1960s. |
| D．After her graduation from a university. |
| A．because she wanted to shorten her voyage |
| B．because of bad weather conditions |
| C．because she wanted to end her voyage in late February |
| D．because she wanted to set a new world record |
| A．In 1999. | B．In 1988. | C．In 1978 . | D．In 1968. |
| A．Figge would like to follow her example. |
| B．She had the same red cap as Figge always wore. |
| C．Figge also wanted to swim across the English Channel. |
| D．They were both born in Germany. |
Last summer, I travelled to Meixian County with my friends. It is a small county at the foot of Taibai Mountain in Shanxi Province. We stayed there for one week and I__1__ my vacation because of the beautiful scenery at the top of the mountain.
I will__2__ forget the day when we climbed the main peak(山顶). The __3__in that area changes very quickly: it was sunny in the early morning when we set out, __4__ it began to rain heavily when we were only halfway up.
Soon，we were all__5__ and some of us wanted to go home. They said, “There is nothing__6__ here. We came to see the scenery，__7__the pouring rain！” However, the guide__8__， “Since we have got wet already, why not just go on with our journey？”
So we carried on up the mountain and，__9__we even noticed, the rain stopped and the sun was smiling again. When we reached the top of the peak, the view was unique (独特的)．
Up there, it was bright and clear. The sky was__10__and the air was fresh. The gentle wind made us feel cool. All the clouds were just like waves in the ocean, __11__ and falling under our feet. We could only see the peaks of mountains, as if they were __12__ floating sparsely (稀疏的) in the ocean. It was a really magical experience.
While we were enjoying the scene, the guide said __13__，“You see, I knew that there would be no rain above the clouds.”
It is __14__. While it may rain below the clouds, the sun is still there above them.
You will never see the sun __15__ you don't try your best to climb to the top of the mountain. If we had stopped and gone home when the rain was very heavy, we would never have seen the beautiful scenery __16__ the clouds. I think this is also true in __17__.
As the song says, “You won't see the rainbow unless you have gone through the thunder and storm.” I think in the__18__， whenever I have any difficulties in my life, I will remember the__19__from the top of Taibai Mountain and the __20__ which touched my heart deeply: There is no rain above the clouds.
1．A.spent B．killed C．had D．enjoyed
2．A.ever B．never C．certainly D．perhaps
3．A.scenery B．cloud C．sky D．weather
4．A.so B．while C．but D．instead
5．A.tired B．hungry C．angry D．wet
6．A.necessary B．fun C．important D．instructive
7．A.not B．no C．never D．hardly
8．A.suggested B．ordered C．asked D．demanded
9．A.when B．before C．while D．then
10．A.dark B．green C．black D．blue
11．A.jumping B．dropping C．going D．rising
12．A.islands B．fish C．animals D．waves
13．A.excited B．proudly C．angrily D．happily
14．A.false B．a lie C．a guess D．true
15．A.when B．unless C．if D．while
16．A.over B．on C．above D．under
17．A.study B．rest C．real world D．life
18．A.past B．present C．future D．life
19．A.weather B．change C．view D．time
20．A.word B．phrase C．speech D．sentence
Tim Welford, aged 33, and Dom Mee, aged 30, both from England, were keen on (="like..." very much) rowing boats. They made a plan to row across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to San Francisco. The name of their rowboat was “Crackers”. It was about seven meters long.
They set out from Japan on May 17,2001. They had rowed nearly 5,500 miles when their boat was hit by a fishing ship on September 17,2001. Luckily they both escaped unharmed, but their boat was badly damaged and they had to abandon( =" stop)their" journey.
In a radio interview, Dom expressed his disappointment and explained how the accident took place.
“A fishing ship came towards us with nobody on the bridge and ran us down. It all happened so quickly. I managed to dive into the water. Tim felt it would be safer to stay on board. He was trapped inside as the boat was driven under the water. Finally some people appeared on the ship and saw me in the water. I shouted at them to stop the ship and to get Tim out. When the ship stopped, I eventually saw Tim, and I was very, very happy that we were still alive. We were very disappointed that we couldn’t reach San Francisco. But we are alive. That above everything is the most important. ”
41.【小题1】 How long had Tim and Dom been at sea when their boat was hit by a fishing boat?
| A．For one month | B．For two months. |
| C．For three months. | D．For four months. |
| A．Tim and Dom were too careless |
| B．the speed of the fishing ship was too fast |
| C．nobody on the fishing ship saw them |
| D．their rowboat was not strong enough |
| A．their rowboat was not damaged |
| B．both of them existed after a dangerous time |
| C．they enjoyed this journey |
| D．they failed to reach San Francisco |
| A．Some people on the fishing ship saved them. |
| B．Tim and Dom were going to San Francisco in the rowboat because they had no money to buy airplane tickets. |
| C．Dom dived into the water when the accident happened because he thought it would be dangerous to stay on board. |
| D．Dom told people about their dangerous experience when he was interviewed on the radio. |
The Atlantic Ocean is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New. For centuries it kept the America from being discovered by the people of Europe.
The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the pacific, but it is still very large. It is more than 4,000 miles (6,000 km) wide where Columbus crossed it. Even at its narrowest it is about 2,000 miles (3,200 km) wide.
There is so much water in the Atlantic that it is hard to imagine how much there is. But suppose no more rain fell into and no more water was brought to it by rivers. It would take the ocean about 4,000 years to dry up. On the average the water is a little more than 2 miles (3.2 km) deep, but in some places it is much deeper. The deepest spot is near Puerto Rico. This "deep" measures 30,246 feet --- almost six miles (9.6 km).
Several hundred miles eastward from Florida there is a part of the ocean called the Sargasso Sea. Here the water is quiet, for there is little wind. Today the Atlantic is a great highway. It is not, however, always a smooth and safe one. Storms sweep across it and pile up great waves. Icebergs float down from the Far North across the paths of ships. We now have such fast ways of travelling that this big ocean seems to have grown smaller. Columbus sailed for more than two months to cross it. A fast modern steamship can make the trip in less than four days. Airplanes fly from New York to London in only eight hours and from South America to Africa in four!
1. From the third paragraph, we can learn that ______ .
A. the Atlantic will dry up in 4,000 years' time
B. no river flows into the Atlantic ocean
C. it's hard to imagine how much water there is in the Atlantic ocean
D. the Ocean floor is rather flat
2.Suppose it's February 27th, 2000. You take a steamship to cross the Atlantic to North America, when will you probably get there?
A. On March 2nd B. On March 3rd
C. On February 28th D. In eight hours' time
3. What can you learn from the last paragraph of the passage ?
A. The Atlantic has grown smaller than it used to be.
B. The Atlantic had grown wider than it used to be.
C. Fast ways of travelling make the ocean grow smaller.
D. Fast ways of travelling make the ocean seem to grow smaller.
You never see him, but they're with you every time you fly. They record where you are going, how fast you're traveling and whether everything on your airplane is functioning normally. Their ability to endure almost any disaster makes them seem like something out of a comic book. They're known as the black box.
When planes fall from the sky, as a Yemeni airliner did on its way to Comoros Islands in the India ocean on June 30, 2009, the black box is the best bet for identifying what went wrong. So when a French submarine (潜水艇) detected the box's homing signal five days later, the discovery marked a huge step toward determining the cause of a tragedy in which 152 passengers were killed.
In 1958, Australian scientist David Warren developed a flight-memory recorder that would track basic information like altitude and direction. That was the first mode for a black box, which became a requirement on all U.S. commercial flights by 1960. Early models often failed to withstand crashes, however, so in 1965 the box was completely redesigned and moved to the rear of the plane – the area least subject to impact – from its original position in the landing wells (起落架舱). The same year, the Federal Aviation Authority required that the boxes, which were never actually black, be painted orange or yellow to aid visibility.
Modern airplanes have two black boxes: a voice recorder, which tracks pilots' conversations, and a flight-data recorder, which monitors fuel levels, engine noises and other operating functions that help investigators reconstruct the aircraft's final moments. Placed in an insulated (隔绝的) case and surrounded by a quarter-inch-thick panels of stainless steel, the boxes can stand massive force and temperatures up to 2,000℉. When submerged, they're also able to emit signals from depths of 20,000 ft. Experts believe the boxes from Air France Flight 447, which crashed near Brazil on June 1,2009, are in water nearly that deep, but statistics say they're still likely to turn up. In the approximately 20 deep-sea crashes over the past 30 years, only one plane's black boxes were never recovered.
1.What does the author say about the black box?
A．It is an indispensable device on an airplane.
B．The idea for its design comes from a comic book.
C．Its ability to avoid disasters is incredible.
D．It ensures the normal functioning of an airplane.
2.What does the underlined word in the 3rd paragraph mean?
A．witness B．experience C．resist D．ensure
3.Why was the black box redesigned in 1965?
A．New materials became available by that time
B．Too much space was needed for its installation.
C．The early models didn't provide the needed data.
D．The early models often got damaged in the crash.
4.What do we know about the black boxes from Air France Flight 447?
A．There is an urgent need for them to be reconstructed.
B．There is still a good chance of their being recovered.
C．They have stopped sending homing signals.
D．They were destroyed somewhere near Brazil.
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