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课文内相关练习 完型填空: Unit 7 Lesson 1 VIKING OYAGES TO AMERICA The Vikings were the first Europeans to reach America. They ____1____ this long before Columbus ever set sail. The Vikings were a group of people whose ancestors came from Scandinavia. They ____2____ the seas and coasts of Northern Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries AD. ___3___ around 900 AD, there were many places in Northern Europe where the Vikings chose to live. In 982 AD, when a man called Eric the Red decided to set sail further west, there were as many as 10,000 Vikings living in Iceland. ____4____ the old stories of Iceland and Norway, Eric the Red was ___5___ to leave Iceland because he had committed a murder, for which he got into ___6___. Eric reached Greenland and discovered that people could live in the place where he landed. He returned to Iceland and told people there about Greenland. He persuaded some people to go back with him to Greenland. Eric set sail once again, this time with 25 ships, of which only 14 ___7___ it to Greenland. ____8____ Eric the Red had landed in Greenland, a man called Biarni set sail from Iceland in search of Eric’s party. Biarni was hoping to ___9___ his father who was with Eric, but he was ____10___ course and found himself in an unknown land, from where he ____11____ reached Greenland. In the year 1002, when Eric the Red’s son Leif was planning a trip further west, Biarni was the man with whom Leif discussed his plans. Leif followed Biarni’s ____12____ and sailed to what is believed to be the coast of present-day Canada. He then sailed further south to an island which is now ___13___ as Newfoundland. We know about Eric the Red and Leif’s deeds ___14___ stories which were written down centuries later in Norway and Iceland. They are the first ___15___ we have of Europeans sailing to the Americas. 1. A. completed B. achieved C. enjoyed D. won 2. A. controlled B. overcome C. charged D. ran 3. A. In B. From C. During D. By 4. A. Due to B. Thanks to C. Owing to D.