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阅读理解 与 完形填空 (作业册Units 1-6-完形) Peter Blake is a successful businessman, but he ____ to be very poor. He had nowhere to live and ____ working in a pub when he ____ to start his own business. Peter had always ____ interested in plants and flowers, ____ he decided to set up a company ____ cared for the plants in big offices. At first he worked on his _____, but soon he took ____ two people to help him. The company has been growing ____ for the last ten years. Peter is now very rich. ____ he complains that now he doesn’t work with plants but with a computer every day! (作业册Units 1-6-阅读理解) Molly Wilson had been a dancer and a mother for many years when she decided to sail round the world to raise money for charity. As a child she had trained as a ballet dancer, but at 15 she had grown too tall for classical ballet, so she became a member of a pop dance team. She got married, and after she had children she retired from show business to bring them up. They grew up, and when they were 18 they left home. She says, ”When I decided to do the round –the –world race, my husband thought I was bored because the children had left home. He was also worried because I had never sailed before. I was not bored, but I had only done one section, say, from New Zealand to Australia. I wanted to do the whole ten-month journey.” Before Molly left she did a lot of training, but it hadn’t prepared her for the worst weather which they experienced. She tells one story. “One night the sea was very rough and it was very cold. I had gone downstairs when a huge wave smashed into the boat and injured two men on the deck. One of the men couldn’t move because he had broken his leg. They were taken to hospital by helicopter. That was the worst time.” By the end of October last year, she had raised more than ￡50000 for charity. She says, “Sometimes I ask myself, what did I do? How did I do it? But then I think, it’s the same as being a dancer. Before I left on the trip, I had trained hard. I had g