Unit 6 Earth first 课文语法填空（知识点总复习）-2023-2024学年高中英语外研版（2019）必修第二册

新外研必修二 Unit 6 Earth first Understanding ideas SHARKS: DANGEROUS OR ENDANGERED? We see a woman __________ (swim) at night in a dark sea. Suddenly, she __________ (pull) underwater. She surfaces, cries in fear, then disappears forever. This is the opening scene from the 1975 film Jaws, showing a shark attack. It tells the story of a great white shark that attacks and kills swimmers. Jaws was __________ great success, __________ (attract) huge audiences and winning many awards. It strengthened people’s long-held idea of the great white shark as a dangerous animal. People have always been scared of sharks, but Jaws made things __________ (bad). It made people frightened 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, killing as many as they could. At that time, nobody cared if 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 due to fear of sharks, but also finning. Finning is a type of fishing where sharks __________ (catch) and their fins cut off. 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 on. In 1980, Benchley __________ (dive) when he came across an awful sight. It was an area where fishermen were finning, and the sea floor was covered with dead sharks. Benchley saw sharks being killed and this caused a deep change in him. He came to see people ________ a danger to sharks, rather than the other way round. From that day on, he __________ (fight) to protect