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Bartley was making his first trip on the whaling ship Star of the East. Suddenly the lookout found a huge whale. The whalers knew it was a huge whale by the size of the spray it blew into the air. They     41   (lower) their small boats. James Bartley was in the first longboat. The man rowed   42    they were close to the whale. A harpoon(魚叉) was thrown and it found its mark. It sank into the whale’s flesh. The maddened beast jumped out of water and broke the boat into

    43     (piece). When the survivors were picked up, James Bartley was ___44_____(miss).

Shortly before sunset, the whale was      45    (final) caught. The sailors tied the whale’s carcass      46       the side of the ship.

Because of the hot weather it was important      47      they cut up the whale right away. Otherwise, the meat      48       begin to rot and the oil to spoil. When they got to the stomach, they felt something     49     (move) about wildly. They thought it would be a big fish still alive inside. But when they opened the stomach they found James Bartley. After this trip,      50    (settle) in Gloucester, England, Bartley never returned to sea.

【回答】

41. lowered   42. until/till   43. pieces    44. missing   45. finally

46. to        47. that      48. would    ng    50. settling

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