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高三英语一轮复习检测选择性必修三Unit4
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A
One day I happened to read an advertisement in a newspaper about an expedition to the Antarctic. I 1.________________ (dream) of such an expedition with the famous explorer Ernest Shackleton. However, he turned me 2.________ when I handed in my application because he thought that I was too young to be 3.___________ (qualify) for the expedition.
Then, I had another idea. I went aboard his ship 4.___________ (secret) and hid myself in a cupboard. I ended up being a member of the expedition, 5.________ I was assigned as a cook to serve all the members three meals a day.
Our journey didn’t go so smoothly. Our ship Endurance got stuck in the ice as we got close to Antarctic. Our ship 6._________________(crush) by the ice and sank. Therefore, we had to abandon our ship and took our most essential supplies with us and threw away those of our personal 7.____________ (belong). Ernest Shackleton even threw away all of his gold while he allowed Hussey 8.________ (keep)his banjo. Hussey often played 9.________ to keep up our spirits. We camped on the ice, 10._______________ (expect) that rescues would soon come.
B
My name is Perce Blackborow and I have been dreaming of 1. expedition to the South Pole with Sir Ernest Shackleton. One day, I read the advertisement about the Antarctic expedition in a newspaper, but when I 2. (apply) to join it, I was turned down because I was too young and wasn’t qualified. I got aboard the ship without 3.________(permit) and hid in a small cupboard, but 4. ___________ (discover) three days later. Shackleton assigned me to be a steward, and I cooked for twenty-eight men. How5.__________(excite) I was! The journey was 6. ___________ (hard) than I expected. When we approached Antarctica, our ship became stuck 7. the ice and got crushed. Before abandoning the ship, we were only allowed to take some of our necessities and throw away the rest. We were camped on the ice, but with spring 8.