【课堂新坐标】2016-2017学年高中英语 Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Period Ⅳ Using Language学业分层测评 新人教版选修9.docVIP

Unit 2 Sailing the oceans Period Ⅳ Using Language Ⅰ.单词拼写 【导学号 (背景) on the situation? (困苦) without complaining.king in the sun soon gave us a (口渴)． (预见) that one day his books would sell in millions. (逐渐的) changes of brightness and color.d that ever cause (紧张) in your relationship? (存入) two hundred dollars. (进退两难困境) of whether or not to return to his country. (缺点) to the project is its expense. (估算) that it must be about three oclock.1.background　2.hardship　3.thirst　5.gradual　6.tension　7.deposit　9.drawback　10.reckonedⅡ.阅读理解A London，England(CNN)—The youngest person to sail solo around the world returned home on Thursday from his 30，000-mile，282-day ocean journey. Mike Perham，17，sailed into Lizard Point in Cornwall，the southernmost point in Britain，at 9：47 a．m. set off on his round-the-world trip on November 18，2008.He has been sailing his yacht，TotallyM，single-handedly，though a support team has been sailing next to him along the way. The teen has now achieved the title of Youngest Sailor to Circumnavigate the Globe Solo，according to the Guinness World Records. Mike learned how to sail when he was seven years old from his father，Peter and at age 14，he sailed across the Atlantic alone. The teenagers school—which Mike describes as “highly supportive” of his trip—has redesigned his coursework to fit in with his trip.It also gave him some coursework to do during “quiet moments，” according to Mikes Web site. There havent been many of those quiet moments.Repeated autopilot failures forced him to stop for repairs in Portugal，the Canary Islands，South Africa，and twice in Australia，according to his Web site. Bad weather in the Southern Ocean—between Australia and Antarctica —forced Mike to battle 50ft waves and 57 mph winds.He said at one point，a “freak wave” picked up the boat and turned it on its side. “My feet were on the ceiling at the time，” he told CNN.“That was a really hairy moment，and I was