20162017学年高中英语Unit2SailingtheoceansPeriodⅣUsingLan

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Period Ⅳ Using Language

Ⅰ.单词拼写【导学号：15680041】

1．Can you give me some (背景) on the situation?

2．A strong man will bear (困苦) without complaining.

3．Working in the sun soon gave us a (口渴)．

4．He could never have (预见) that one day his books would sell in millions.

5．Humans are sensitive to (逐渐的) changes of brightness and color.

6．Did that ever cause (紧张) in your relationship?

7．I'd like to (存入) two hundred dollars.

8．He was faced with the (进退两难困境) of whether or not to return to his country.

9．The only (缺点) to the project is its expense.

10．Toni (估算) that it must be about three o'clock.

【答案】 1.background 2.hardship 3.thirst

4．foreseen 5.gradual 6.tension 7.deposit

8．dilemma 9.drawback 10.reckoned

Ⅱ.阅读理解

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London，England(CNN)—The youngest person to sail solo around the world returned home on Thursday from his 30，000­mile，282­day ocean journey.

Mike Perham，17，sailed into Lizard Point in Cornwall，the southernmost point in Britain，at 9：47 a．m.，his race team said.

“It feels absolutely brilliant，” Mike told CNN by phone hours before crossing the finish line.“I'm really，really excited to be going across the line at last.It doesn't feel like long since I crossed it first.”

Mike se t off on his round­the­world trip on November 18，2008.He has been sailing his yacht，，single­handedly，though a support team has been sailing next to him along the way.

The teen has now achieved the title of Youngest Sailor to Circumnavigate the Globe Solo，according to the Guinness World Records.

Mike learned how to sail when he was seven years old from his father，Peter and at age 14，he sailed across the Atlantic alone.

The teenager's school—which Mike describes as “highly supportive” of his

trip—has redesigned his coursework to fit in with his trip.It also gave him some coursework to do during “quiet moments，” according to Mike's Web site.

There haven't been many of those quiet moments.Repeated autopilot failures forced him to stop for repairs in Portugal，the Canary Islands，South Africa，and twice in Australia，according to his Web site.

Bad weather in the Southern Ocean—between Australia and Antarctica —forced Mike to battle 50ft waves and 57 mph winds.He said at one point，a “freak wave”picked up the boat and turned it on its side.

“My feet were on the ceiling at the time，” he told CNN.“That was a really hairy moment，and I was certainly thinking，‘Why am I here？’ But we took the sails off and the day after I thought，‘This is brilliant！’”

Mike describes his father as his biggest hero，always supportive of what he wanted to achieve.Peter Perham said he wasn't too worried about his son facing dangerous situations at sea，as long as he knew what to do and stayed safe.

【语篇解读】本文是一篇新闻报道。主要介绍十七岁的Mike Perham单独航海环游世界的事迹。

1．Mike Perham returned to Britain in ．

A．August B．September

C．October D．November

【解析】推理判断题。根据文章开始提到的“282 days”，以及第四段中提到的November可知应该是在八月。

【答案】 A

2．Mike Perham is that went on the round­the­world trip in the world up till now.

A．the first B．the bravest

C．the luckiest D．the youngest

【解析】细节理解题。文章第一句就给出答案。

【答案】 D

3．We can infer from the passage that ．

A．the English school is the same as ours

B．the English school doesn't care for students

C．the English school has a humane management

D．the English school gives students a lot of course

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