英语六级阅读理解炼4931-女海盗的沉浮.docxVIP

第 1 页 共 6 页 英语六级阅读理解精炼 49 篇 31:女海盗的沉浮 31. The Women Pirates1 Many people know of such names as Henry Morgan, Edward “Blackbeard ”Teach, Barbarossa, Jean Lafitte , and William Kidd2, the pirates of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. But few have heard of the women pirates Catalina de Eranzo, Mary Read, and Anne Bonney. Each of these women was a rough and rugged pirate captain. Catalina de Eranzo was a Spanish noble woman. The only daughter of a rich ship owner, she was a spoiled child. She learned a great deal from her brothers. Navigation was easy for her. She learned to sail any kind