Nothing ventured,nothing gained教案
still thawing (使變暖和)her chilled body several hours later,she told a reporter,“look,i’m not excusing myself,but if i could have seen land i might have made it.” it was not tiredness or even the cold water that defeated her.it was the fog.she was unable to see her goal.
two months later,she tried again.this time,despite the same dense fog,she swam with her faith intact and her goal clearly pictured in her mind.she knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she made it！florence chadwick became the first woman to swim the catalina channel,eclipsing the men’s record by two hours!
5.why didn’t florence swim across the catalina channel for the first time?
a.because she was too tired to go on swimming.
b.because the fog was so thick that she lost heart at the sea.
c.because she couldn’t see her goal:the land.
d.because the sea water too cold to bear.
6.what does “she never had...” mean?
a.she had never been so desperate.
b.she had never thought of giving it up.
c.she had never seen such thick fog.
d.she had never swum across the strait before.
7.which of the following is not true?
a.florence chadwick spent less time to swim across the catalina channel than any man.
b.florence chadwick succeeded in swimming across the catalina channel in september,1952.
c.people had to use guns to drive away some flesh-eating fish in the sea.
d.no women but florence chadwick were able to swim across the english channel in both directions.
8.which of the following is the best title?
a.keep your goals in sight
b.swim across the catalina channel
c.the fog defeated her
d.set a goal for yourself
答案：5.c 由第四段“but if i could have seen land i might have made it.”可知答案。
6.b 推理判斷題。由前一句“they urged her not to quit”可推知答案。
7.d 海峽名稱有誤。
8.a 主旨大意題。縱觀全文可知:只有制定了切實可行的目標，而且能預見到成功，人們才不會放棄。
c
john hunter had three advantages.he had a brother who was a doctor and he thus able to learn about diseases and their effects.his natural curiosity led him to observe and study the lives of wild animals in the countryside and he had strong and skillful hands,so essential to a surgeon.in fact he became in a short time so famous that he was asked to lecture,but john preferred the practical work of the surgeon.
soon after becoming a surgeon hunter joined the army.he learnt a great deal from his experience of dealing with soldiers’ wounds.in particular,he studied how to prevent a wounded man from bleeding too much,learning thereby how the nerve system functioned in the bodies of animals and humans.but there were many things he did not know about and which could only be learnt by dissection.and this posed a problem.