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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, travelling 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 by them. That is why I wanted to write LIFE NUMBER TWO.

  Some people go for escape 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 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. 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.

76. The writer spent ______in travelling.

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

C. the period of wartime      D. much time

77. 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

78. 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

79. The shipboard life is ______.

A. very tiresome            B. very luxurious     C. a reflection of society D. very funny

80. 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

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