Period Four Writing Ⅰ.语篇填空 Soudee, 1. is a 24-year-old Frenchman, has already been at sea for two years. He 2. (travel) along Africa’s west coast, through the Caribbean Sea and up to the Arctic Ocean since he set sail from the Canary Islands in 2017. Soudee is 3. only person on his sailboat but he brought along a pet hen with him. Soudee met Monique, the hen, on the Canary Islands shortly before he began 4. (he) around-the-world voyage. He told a BBC reporter that he knew she was the one he needed. While planning for his trip, Soudee had considered 5. (bring) along an animal for companionship(陪伴), but not 6. (necessary) a chicken. Later he told the BBC reporter, “The hen is a good 7. (choose). I don’t have to spend much time looking 8. it and I’m able to get eggs at sea.” The story has also become popular on social media. One Twitter user wrote this week, “This hen has a 9. (good) life than me.” Monique and her owner plan 10. (sail) to Alaska next. You can find reports about Soudee’s trip on his Facebook, Instagram and YouTube pages. Ⅱ.小语篇写作 每年都会发生(occur)数不清的自然灾害(disaster),比如地震、洪水(flood)、海啸(tsunami)、台风(typhoon)、飓风(hurricane),造成数百万人死伤(injury)。1976年发生在唐山的地震被认为是非常有破坏性(destructive)的。令人们感到欣慰(relief)的是,救援(rescue)队立即赶到,来自全国各地的捐助(donation)也被提供(supply)给了唐山的人民。 Ⅲ.阅读理解 The boy made it! One Sunday, Nicholas, a teenager, went skiing at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine. In the early afternoon, when he was planning to go home, a fierce snowstorm swept into the area and Nicholas was lost, all alone! He didn’t have food, water, a phone, or other supplies. He was getting colder by the minute. Nicholas had no idea where he was. He tried not to panic. He thought about all of the survival shows he had watched on TV. It was time to put the tips he had learned to use. He decided to stop skiing. The first thing he did was to find a shelter from the freezing wind and snow. If he didn’t, his body temperature would get very low, which could quickly kill him. Using his skis, Nicholas built a snow cave. He gathered a huge mass of snow and dug out a hole in the middle. Then he piled branches on top of himself, like a blanket, to stay as warm as he could. By that evening, Nicholas was really hungry. He ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn’t lose too much water. Not knowing how much longer he could last, Nicholas did the only thing he could—he huddled(蜷缩) in his cave and slept. The next day, Nicholas went out to look for help, but he couldn’t find anyone. He followed his tracks and returned to the snow cave, because without shelter, he could die that night. On Tuesday, Nicholas went out again to find help. He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher fou ... ...
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