This ship set sail and gradually disappeared ...

This ship set sail and gradually disappeared where the sea ________ the sky.

A．meets    B．reflects

C．catches    D．connects

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Months ago we sailed ten thousand miles across this open sea, which _______ the Pacific, and we met no storms.

A. was called        B. is called   C. had been called    D. has been called

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Months ago we sailed ten thousand miles across this open sea, which _______ the Pacific, and we met no storms.

A. was called      B. is called      C. had been called D. has been called

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_____ tomorrow, our ship will set sail for Macao.

A. However the weather is like         B. However is the weather like

C. whatever is the weather like         D. Whatever the weather is like

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_____ tomorrow, our ship will set sail for Macao.

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________tomorrow，our ship will set sail for Macao.

A．However the weather is like

B．However is the weather like

C．Whatever is the weather like

D．Whatever the weather is like

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________tomorrow, our ship will set sail for Macao.

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Mail was usually carried west on ships that sailed around the bottom of South America and then north to California．That could take several months.

So, in eighteen fifty-seven, D.C．Lawmakers in Congress（国会） in Washington wanted to make it possible to send mail all the way across the United States by land．Congress offered to help any company that would try to deliver mail overland to the West Coast. A man named John Butterfield accepted this offer. He developed plans for a company that would carry the mail—and passengers, too.

Congress gave John Butterfield six hundred thousand dollars to start his company. In return, he had to promise that the mail would travel from Saint Louis, Missouri, to San Francisco, California, in twenty-five days or less.

It was not possible to travel straight through because of the Rocky Mountains and the deep snow that fell in winter. So the stagecoach（马车） would travel south from Saint Louis to El Paso, Texas, then over to southern California, then north to San Francisco. The distance was about four thousand five hundred kilometers.

Two hundred of these stations were built, each about thirty-two kilometers apart. The workers were to quickly change the horses or mules whenever a stagecoach reached the station. There could be no delay. Each stagecoach was to travel nearly two hundred kilometers a day.

One hundred stagecoaches were built and painted red or dark green. They were the most modern coaches that money could buy. They were designed to hold as many as nine passengers and twelve thousand pieces of mail. The seats inside could be folded down to make beds. Passengers either slept on them or on the bags of mail.

The cost would be one hundred fifty dollars to travel from Saint Louis to San Francisco. If a passenger was not going all the way, the cost was about ten cents a kilometer. The passengers had to buy their own food at the stations. The stagecoach would stop for forty minutes, two times a day.

The company warned passengers about the possible dangers. A poster said: “You will be traveling through Indian country and the safety of your person cannot by granted by anyone but God.”

1．What is the passage mainly about?

A．Different ways of sending mail in the United States.

B．The difficulty in sending mails across the USA by land.

C．The first stagecoaches that carried both passengers and mail.

D．The history of the first stagecoaches carrying mail to the American West.

2．The reason why Lawmakers wanted to send mail by land was that ________.

A．mail was usually carried west on ships

B．it was safer to travel to send mail by land

C．it would take less time to send mail by land

D．stagecoaches could carry passengers and mail

3．As is described in the passage, the stagecoach ________.

A．could only stop once a day

B．was modern with seats ,beds and cooking equipment

C．was a closed wagon operated only by skillful drivers.

D．had different horses or mules pulled all the way

4．What can we learn from the passage?

A．John Buttterfield got thousands of dollars for delivering mail in stagecoaches.

B．John Buttterfield kept his promise to deliver mail straight to the West Coast.

C．Passengers might be robbed by Indians when traveling through the West.

D．Passengers needed to pay one hundred dollars for their journey.

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They're life jacket orange, they’re robots and they're capable of sailing the high seas without human intervention.

On Tuesday the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) launched a pair of Saildrones(海洋无人机) in Pacific Northwest waters for the first time. Their summer long sailing journey will stretch from Vancouver Island to California. The Saildrone operators will collect data to help set future fishing seasons. The government wants to see whether seagoing. robots can extend fishery surveys now performed by expensive manned ships.

Nora Cohen from NOAA said,“The 23 foot tong seagoing robots can follow a remotely programmed course for up to a year at a time. And they don't require any fuel. We use wind and solar power to drive the sensors.”He added,“It means that we're able to go to places where we don't really want to send people, and go into weather that we really don't want anyone ever to be in, and be able to send back measurements.”

The primary mission is to investigate the species and number of fish in existence and the places where they are. Larry Hufnagle, scientist of NOAA Fisheries in Seattle, said a traditional big NOAA research ship-based survey costs around $25，000 per day. By comparison, one Saildrone runs $2,500 per day.

“It could be a significant saving,”Hufnagle said. “But like anything else, there is a tradeoff in what you get and what you don't get. On the manned ship, we have limited time. It takes a lot of people. We spend a fair amount of money. But there is one thing the Saildrone can't do that humans can: cast a net to catch and positively identify the fish detected below. The Saildrones are going to give us additional data, not replacement data.”

Nora Cohen said Sail Drone, a venture capital-backed company based in Alameda, California, expects to launch a total of 11 of its seagoing robots to survey different water bodies for NOAA this year. The Bering and Arctic seas, coastal California and Gulf of Mexico will be the locations of additional missions.

1.What is the purpose of collecting fish data?

A.To explore the ocean.

B.To assist fishing industry.

C.To learn the habits of fish,

D.To improve fishing skills

2.What is mainly discussed about the Saildrone in Paragraph 3?

A.Its advantages.

B.Its appearance.

C.Its power systems.

D.Its primary mission.

3.What does the underlined word “tradeoff”in Paragraph 5 probably mean?

A.Debate. B.Reason.

C.Reality. D.Balance.

4.What can be inferred from the text?

A.The Saildrone has a promising future.

B.Hufnagle thinks little of the Saildrone.

C.Manned ships will be completely replaced.

D.Production of seagoing robots is restricted.

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It’ s said that a giant rock was located in the North Sea but once many boats and ships1. 　　　　　 （strike）it and sank.

About a century years ago, a kind and imaginative minister came up with an idea to have a buoy（浮标）2. 　　　　　 （fasten）to the rock. On the top of the buoy3. 　　　　　 （place）a bell, which would ring whenever any ships got closer. When hearing the bell ringing, sailors knew where the rock was and stayed safe. One day, a sea robber Rover happened4. 　　　　　 （sail） not far away from the rock.

Seeing5. 　　　　　 buoy floating in the water, he decided to play a trick. Soon his crew broke the chain that held the buoy, let the bell go into the water and then sailed away. In the following weeks, they robbed many6. 　　　　　 ships around the seas and filled the ship with a great7. 　　　　　 （vary） of treasures. Unfortunately, when returning, they themselves had no idea how to get away from the terrible rock8. 　　　　　 the ring. The ship was moving swiftly in the dark9. 　　　　　 there was a great crash. 10. 　　　　　 was the very rock and the ship began to sink.

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