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Unit 4 Wildlife Protection reading课时
作业
Ⅰ.单词拼写
1．Can you give me some (背景) on the situation?
2．A strong man will bear (困苦) without complaining.
3．Working in the sun soon gave us a (口渴)．
4．He could never have (预见) that one day his books would sell in millions.
5．Humans are sensitive to (逐渐的) changes of brightness and color.
6．Did that ever cause (紧张) in your relationship?
7．I'd like to (存入) two hundred dollars.
8．He was faced with the (进退两难的困境) of whether or not to return to his country.
9．The only (缺点) to the project is its expense.
10．Toni (估算) that it must be about three o'clock.
【答案】 1.background 2.hardship 3.thirst
4．foreseen 5.gradual 6.tension 7.deposit
8．dilemma 9.drawback 10.reckoned
Ⅱ.阅读理解
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London，England(CNN)—The youngest person to sail solo around the world returned home on Thursday from his 30，000mile，282day ocean journey.
Mike Perham，17，sailed into Lizard Point in Cornwall，the southernmost point in Britain，at 9：47 a．m.，his race team said.
“It feels absolutely brilliant，” Mike told CNN by phone hours before crossing the finish line.“I'm really，really excited to be going across
the line at last.It doesn't feel like long since I crossed it first.”
Mike set off on his roundtheworld trip on November 18，2008.He has been sailing his yacht，，singlehandedly，though a support team has been sailing next to him along the way.
The teen has now achieved the title of Youngest Sailor to Circumnavigate the Globe Solo，according to the Guinness World Records.
Mike learned how to sail when he was seven years old from his father，Peter，and at age 14，he sailed across the Atlantic alone.
The teenager's school—which Mike describes as “highly supportive”of his trip—has redesigned his coursework to fit in with his trip.It also gave him some coursework to do during “quiet moments”， according to Mike's Web site.
There haven't been many of those quiet moments.Repeated autopilot failures forced him to stop for repairs in Portugal，the Canary Islands，South Africa，and twice in Australia，according to his Web site.
Bad weather in the Southern Ocean—between Australia and Antarctica —forced Mike to battle 50ft waves and 57 mph winds.He said at one point，a “freak wave” picked up the boat and turned it on its side.
“My feet were on the ceiling at the time，” he told CNN.“That was a really hairy moment，and I was certainly thinking，‘Why am I here？’But we took the sails off and the day after I thought，‘This is brilliant！’”
Mike describes his father as his biggest hero，always supportive of what he wanted to achieve.Peter Perham said he wasn't too worried about his son facing dangerous situations at sea，as long as he knew what to do and stayed safe.
【语篇解读】本文是一篇新闻报道。主要介绍十七岁的Mike Perham单独航海环游世界的事迹。
1．Mike Perham returned to Britain in ．
A．August B．September
C．October D．November
