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Every summer many people, girls and women, so well as

1．________

boys and men, trying to swim from England to France or from

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France to England. The distant at the nearest points is only

3．________

about 21.7 miles, but because the strong tides, they usually

4．________

have to swim more than twice as far. The first man succeeded

5．________

in swimming the English Channel was a captain, an Englishman.

6．________

That was in August 1895. Since then on there have been

7．________

many more successful swimmers. In 1960 a Canada crossed

8．________

the Channel within 10 hours and 23 minutes. Because sea

9．________

is quite cold, swimmers cover their bodies in grease(油脂).

10．________

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1．so→as 　　2．trying→try 　　3．distant→distance 　　4．because后面加of 　　5．succeeded前面加who／that，或succeeded→succeeding 　　6．√ 　　7．去掉on或since→from 　　8．Canada→Canadian 　　9．sea前面加the 　　10．in→with