模块三英语课文改稿.docx

PAGE PAGE 1 高一英语期中复习资料 U7 L1 The Spirit of Explorers--Viking Voyages to America The Vikings were the first E (欧洲人) to r (到达) America. They a (实现) this long before Columbus ever ( 启 航 ). The Vikings were a group of people （ ） a (祖先)came from Scandinavia. They c (控制) the seas and coasts of Northern Europe between the 8th and 10th centuries AD. By around 900 AD, there were many places in Northern Europe （ ） the Vikings c (选择) to live. In 982 AD, （ ） a man c (被叫做) Eric the Red decided to set sail further west, there were as many as 10,000 Vikings living in Iceland. (根据) the old stories of Iceland and Norway, Eric the Red was f (被迫) to leave Iceland because he had (犯谋杀罪), for which he (陷入麻烦). Eric reached Greenland and d (发现) that people could live in the place where he l (着陆). He returned to Iceland and told people there about Greenland. He p (说服) some people to go back with him to Greenland. Eric set sail once again, this time with 25 ships, （ ） only 14 (到达) Greenland. Not long after Eric the Red had landed in Greenland, a man called Biarni set sail from Iceland (寻找)Erics party. Biarni was hoping to join his father （ ） was with Eric, but he was b (吹， 刮) off course and found himself in an u (不知名的) land, from where he e ( 最 终 ) reached Greenland. In the year 1002,（ ）Eric the Reds son Leif was planning a trip further west, Biarni was the man （ ） Leif discussed his plans. Leif f (听从) Biarnis d (指导) and sailed to what is believed to be the coast of p ( 现 今 的 ) Canada. He then sailed further south to an island which is now known as Newfoundland. We know about Eric the Red and Leifs d (事迹) through stories （ ） were written down centuries later in Norway and Iceland. They are the first r ( 记录) we have of Europeans sailing to the Americas. U7 L 4 Sea Stories It may seem s (奇怪), but at that moment, when we were on the e (边缘)of the w (漩涡), I felt c (更加镇定) than when we were moving towards it. We went round and round, nearer and