2016高考英语阅读理解练习及答案(36)
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2016高考英语阅读理解练习及答案（36）
There has been, in history, a man who wasswallowed by a whale and lived to tell the ‘s name is James Bartley.
The records to prove his unusual experience arein the British Admiralty.
Bartley was making his first trip on the whalingship Star of the the lookout found ahuge whale .The whalers knew it was a huge whale by the size of the spray it blew into lowered their small Bartley was in the first longboat .The men roweduntil they were close to the harpoon was thrown and it found its sankinto the whale’ s maddened beast jumped out of the water and broke the boat the survivors were picked up, James Bartley was missing.
Shortly before sunset, the whale was finally sailors tied the whale’ s carcass tothe side of the ship.
Because of the hot weather it was important that they cut up the whale right , the meat would begin to rot and the oil would begin to they got to thestomach, they felt something moving about thought it would be a big fish still when they opened the stomach they found James this trip, Bartleysettled in Gloucester, England, and never returned to sea.
passage is mainly about
to hunt whales for their oil and meat.
hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live.
duties of each man on a whaling ship.
man who was swallowed by a whale and lived.
sailors knew that something was in the whale’ s stomach because
could feel it moving about wildly.
whale seemed very heavy .
whale was bulging at one spot.
captain heard Bartley crying for help.
Bartley never went to sea again because
wanted different kinds of adventures
fright and shock.
was hurt by the whale.
often got seasick.
author, in telling James Bartley’s story, gives us information by
us laugh
about whaling in general.
whaling to other fishing.
telling what happened.
word carcass refers to the
’ s tail .’ s body of the ‘ s side 答案