跪求:大学精读1,填空题Fill in the missing words The voyage began becau
跪求:大学精读1,填空题
Fill in the missing words
The voyage began because I was terrified of Cape Horn.If anything terrifies me,I must _____(1) it.
I had read terrible things written _____(2) Cape Horn by people who had s_____(3) in making the passage.All the water _____(4) South America and the Antarctic is squeezed _____(5) his narrow,shallow gap.You get waves 50 feet _____(6).
I read a lot of books about the old clipper ships that used to _____(7) round the Horn,and my plan took shape.I would _____(8) the route of these great sailing vessels from England to Australia _____(9) the Cape of Good Hope and _____(10) round Cape Horn back to England.Not only that, _____(11) I would try to equal their average sailing time for these voyages.
_____(12) it turned out,I did not succeed.I _____(13) mistakes. I didn't go as _____(14) as they did.But I _____(15) sail round the world single-handed.No one had _____(16) done that before.It is always satisfying to do something _____(17) no one else has done.