新概念英语第三册课文填空训练25 Lesson 25 The Cutty Sark

－ 新概念英语第三册Lesson 25 The Cutty Sark What piece of bad luck prevented the Cutty Sark from winning the race?     One of the most_______sailing ships of the nineteenth ______, the Cutty Sark, can still be _____(see)at Greenwich. She _____(stand) on dry land and is _____by thousands of people each year. She serves as an ________(impress)reminder of the great ships of past. Before they were _______(replace) by steamships, sailing vessels like the Cutty Sark were _____ to ______ tea from China and wool from Australia. The Cutty Sark was one the ________(fast)sailing ships that has ever been______. The only other ship to______ her was the Thermopylae. Both these ships ____ ____ from Shanghai ___ June 18th, 1872 on an exciting ______to England. This______, ______ went on for________(exact) four months, was the last of ___(it)kind. It marked the end of the great ________(traditional) of ships with sails and the _______(begin)of a new era. The first of the two ships to______ Java after the race had begun was the Thermopylae, ____ on the Indian Ocean, the Cutty Sark took lead. It seemed_______ that she would be the first ship home, but during the race she had a lot of bad_____. In August, she was struck by a very ______ storm during which her rudder was torn away. The Cutty Sark rolled______ side to side and it became________(possible) to steer her. A temporary rudder _________(make) on board from spare planks and it was fitted with great ________. This _______(great) reduced the speed of the ship, for there was a______ that if she traveled too ______(quick), this rudder would be torn away as well. ______ ___ this, the Cutty Sark lost her lead. After _______(cross)the Equator, the captain called in at a port to have a new rudder fitted, but by now the Thermopylae was over five hundred miles _____. _______the new rudder was fitted at tremendous spee