When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog.Her body was numb(麻木的).She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.
Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions.Now, at age 34, her goal(目标)was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.
On that Fourth of July morning in 1952, the sea was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense she could hardly see her support(援助)boats.
Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement.They told her it wasn’t much farther.But all she could see was fog.They encouraged her not to stop swimming.She never had…until then.With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out.
Still warming her chilled body several hours later, she told a reporter,“Look, I am not excusing myself, but if I could have seen land I might have made it.”It was not tiredness or even the cold water that beat her.It was the fog.She was unable to see her goal.
Two months later, she tried again.This time, despite(尽管)the same dense fog, she swam with her confidence and her goal clearly pictured in her mind.She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she made it!Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel, eclipsing(使黯然失色)the men’s record by two hours!
(1)
Florence Chadwick ________ in September, 1952.
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A.
swam across the English Channel
B.
realized her goal
C.
gave up swimming
D.
was back to California coast
(2)
According the article, which sentence is TRUE?
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A.
She swam the Catalina Channel with the other men together.
B.
She was so tired and cold that people had to pull her out of water.
C.
Her goal was to swim the English Channel in both directions.
D.
She gave up her goal when there was only a half mile to the California coast.
(3)
The word“dense”in the article means ________.
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A.
cold
B.
heavy
C.
amazing
D.
beautiful
(4)
Why did Florence Chadwick succeed two month later?Because ________.
I like science very much. I want to be a ____1____ when I'm older. But I don't know how to become one. There ____2____ one special answer for everyone, but I can tell you some ideas. Start with something from the world ____3____ you, and you can learn about it and understand it. Here are some suggestions(建议). How about birds? Ask your mum or dad it you can ___4___a cage. Then try to find someone who may ____5____ the birds and can teach you about the birds. How about numbers? You may think that maths is ____6____. But you will be surprised if you start doing puzzles and games with them. ____7____ can be fun. How about stars? ____8___ someone among your friends who can help you pick out stars and groups of stars. There are lots of ideas ____9____ these. They are will be fun and teach you things. You will soon learn these things from nature. ____10____ are not science. They only help you understand it.
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