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牛津英语译林版 8下 期中复习专项训练 – 首字母填空
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In January last year, people found a bottle on a beach in West Australia. There was a (1) m________ in the bottle. It turned out to be that the bottle into the sea in June a German sailor (水手) (2) t________ the bottle into the sea in June 1886. The bottle drifted (漂流) on the sea for over 132 years! People (3) b________ that it is the world's oldest-known message in a bottle.
At the time, German sailors used messages in bottles to study ocean currents (洋流). (4) B________ 1864 and 1933, they threw thousands of bottles into the sea. Most of them (5) t________ a long way but people can't find them now.
As time goes on, the reason for writing messages has (6) a________ changed a lot. Some messages are used for scientific studies. But most people send out messages in bottles for (7) o________ reasons.
Some want to find pen pals (笔友) . So they write down some things about (8) t________. Some people write down their secrets. They hope the sea can take them away.