IT’S REALLY COLD AND MISERABLE HERE IN THE WINTER

50. It’s really cold and miserable here in the winter. I hope we would live in a warmer

A B C D

place next year.

IV/ Reading comprehension:

Read the following passage and choose the best answers.

Lucky survivors

A couple from Miami, Bill and Simon Butler, ...51...sixty-six days in a life-raft in the

sea of central America after their yacht sank. They survived in very good ...52...

Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their yacht, they met some whales. “ They

started to hit the side of the boat”, said Bill, “and then ...53... we heard water.”

Two minutes ...54..., the yacht was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched

the boat go ...55...the water. For twenty days they had ...56... of food, biscuits, and bottle of

water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water, two

things which ...57... their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw. Then the

line broke. “ So we had no more fish ...58...something very strange happened. Some sharks

came to feed and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them

with my hands.”

About twenty ships ...59...them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-

raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing brat saw them

and ...60...them...60... . Their two months at sea was over.