Some people go for escape（逃避）from grief（悲伤）or failure, some from a wish not to be very long in one place in the world. Others go to celebrate a marriage, or are a retirement（退休）, and many people take voyages to enjoy a luxury（享乐）they do not have at home and for shipboard fun. When you put all these motives （动机）into a forced companionship（伙伴关系） and sometimes an unpleasant one—a voyage can be like a mirror held up to modern life with all its variety（多样）. Voyages can be boring but they can give some passengers new view on life, renew courage and awaken a sense of the size of the world.

   There are many books about ocean voyages, but as a rule they are magazines or diaries of travel. LIFE NUMBER TWO is a novel written not mainly to show shipboard life but to tell the stories of a few people on board, trying their past lives and their possible futures into the narrative（叙述）.It also deals with some modern social problems worth our consideration.

1.The writer spent ______in traveling.

A. all his life　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    B.the most important part of life

C.the period of wartime  　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D.much time

2.LIFE NUMBER TWO tells how people feel ______.

A. when they are alone in their trips

B.when they fly quickly from one place to another

C.when they are on board a ship for a long time

D.when they are always in one place of the world

3.A sea voyage in one’s life is______ as the writer says.

A. sometimes a thing worth doing  　　　　　　　　   B.a waste of time

C.a sign of failure　　　　　　   　　　　　　　　   D.one’s strong wish

4.The shipboard life is ______.

A. very tiresome　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   B.very luxurious

C.a reflection of society　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D.very funny

5.This passage may be something written by ______.

A. a reader after reading the book 　　　　　　　　　　　　    B.the author to give the introduction

C.a passage on board the ship　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   D.someone who got a second life

Travel has been a considerable part of my life and I have different kinds of journeys to many parts of the world. Often in my travels, I was alone, traveling under difficult conditions in wartime, and I have flown over the oceans many times when I wanted to get quickly from one place to another. But a sea voyage, especially a long one, has something unusual of its own, and after taking a few of them, I became interested in the reasons why people take such trips and how they are affected（影响）by them. That is why I wanted to write LIFE NUMBER TWO.

Some people go for escape（逃避）from grief（悲伤）or failure, some from a wish not to be very long in one place in the world. Others go to celebrate a marriage, or are a retirement（退休）, and many people take voyages to enjoy a luxury（享乐）they do not have at home and for shipboard fun. When you put all these motives （动机）into a forced companionship（伙伴关系） and sometimes an unpleasant one—a voyage can be like a mirror held up to modern life with all its variety（多样）. Voyages can be boring but they can give some passengers new view on life, renew courage and awaken a sense of the size of the world.

   There are many books about ocean voyages, but as a rule they are magazines or diaries of travel. LIFE NUMBER TWO is a novel written not mainly to show shipboard life but to tell the stories of a few people on board, trying their past lives and their possible futures into the narrative（叙述）.It also deals with some modern social problems worth our consideration.

1.The writer spent ______in traveling.

A. all his life　　 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    B.the most important part of life

C.the period of wartime  　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 D.much time

2.LIFE NUMBER TWO tells how people feel ______.

A. when they are alone in their trips

B.when they fly quickly from one place to another

C.when they are on board a ship for a long time

D.when they are always in one place of the world

3.A sea voyage in one’s life is______ as the writer says.

A. sometimes a thing worth doing  　　　　　　　　   B.a waste of time

C.a sign of failure　　　　　　   　　　　　　　　   D.one’s strong wish

4.The shipboard life is ______.

A. very tiresome　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   B.very luxurious

C.a reflection of society　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　    D.very funny

5.This passage may be something written by ______.

A. a reader after reading the book 　　　　　　　　　　　　    B.the author to give the introduction

C.a passage on board the ship　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   D.someone who got a second life