10. The building
______ now will be a hospital.
A. be built B to be built C being built D being building
完形填空(15小题，每小题2分)
When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nithing but a solid
wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.
Already she was the firse woman to swim the English Channel in both
directions. Now, at age 34, her __11__ was to become the first women to swim
from Catalina Island to the Califonian coase. On that fourth of July morningin
1952, the fog was so __12__ that she could hard;y see her __13__ boat. Sharks
cruised(巡游) toward her
lonely __14__ only to be driven away by rifle shots. __15__ the icy grip of the
sea, she __16__ on – hour after hour – while millions watched in national
televisons.
Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer
offered __17__. They told her it was not much __18__. But all she could see was
fog.. they urged her not to __19__. She never had --- __20__then. With only a
half mile to go, she asked to be __21__. Still thawing her chilled body several
hours later, she told a reporter, “Look, I am not __22__ myself, but if I could
have seen land I might have made it.” It was not fatigue (疲劳)or__ 23__ the cold water
that __24__ her. It was the fog. She
was unaboe to see her goal.
Two month later, she tried again. This time, __25__ the same dense
fog, she swam with her __26__ complete and her goal clearly __27__ in her mind.
She knew that __28__ behind hthat fog was land and this time she __29__ it!
Florence Chadwick became the first women to swim the Catalina Channel,
eclipsing(使黯然失色)the men’s
__30__ by two hours.
