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必修二 Unit 6 课文挖空练习
1.Understanding ideas
Sharks: dangerous or endangered?
We see a woman ________(swim) at night in a dark sea. Suddenly, she ________(pull) underwater. She surfaces, cries________________(害怕地), then disappears forever. This is the opening scene form the 1975 film Jaws, ________(show) a shark attack. It tells the story of a great white shark that attacks and kills swimmers. Jaws was a great success,_____________(attract) huge audiences and winning many awards. It ________(strength) people’s long-held idea of the great white shark as a dangerous animal.
People have always___________________(害怕) sharks, but Jaws made things ________(bad). It made people ________(fright) of sharks, especially of the great white shark. Many people who saw the film started to believe that sharks were bad animals_________ ate humans. Some people stopped swimming in the sea, afraid of the horrible creature from the film. Other people started fishing for sharks, ________(kill) an many as they could. At that time, nobody cared ________ sharks were killed, or how many were killed. People just wanted them__________(kill).
After 1975, the number of large sharks around America fell quickly, and soon fell around the world. This was not only______________(由于)fear of sharks, but also finning. Finning is a type of fishing where sharks are caught and their fins ___________(切掉). The sharks are thrown back into the sea ________they die slowly and painfully. The fins are used in shark fin soup. Finning kills millions of sharks a year.
Finning would have an unexpected effect ________ Peter Benchley, the man who wrote the book the film Jaws was based ________. In 1980, Benchley was diving when he______________(遇到) awful sight. It was an area where fishermen were finning, and the sea floor ____________________(被......覆盖)dead sharks. Benchley saw sharks _____________(kill) and this caused a deep change in him. He came to see people ________ a danger to sharks, rather than __________________