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I spent my childhood near the sea watching the ships, large and small, go in and out of the harbor. At the age of eighteen I ___1___ home to take a job on a passenger ___2___ that sailed between San Francisco and Yokohama. I was ___3___ about my new adventure and a little afraid, too. For over a year, I ___4___ the Pacific on the Rosa. The brilliant blue waters were ___5___ in the sunlight; under stormy skies the angry ___6___ became dark, dangerous, and exciting. I ___7___ the sea in all its glorious beauty—both when it was quiet and when it was violent. ___8___, I knew it was the life for me.

That second year, during a trip from Melbourne to Honolulu, I had a very strange ___9___. I have never forgotten it. We couldn’t get ___10___ the way in time and were hit by a violent ___11___. The wind grew stronger and stronger—___12___ fifty miles an hour, and mountains of water ___13___ the Rosa Lee over on its side. The ship rolled back only to be ___14___ again by the next wave. All during the rain-filled night, we worked in a frantic ___15___ to save the ship, but there was a breakdown in the engine room and the motors ___16___. We knew that there was ___17___ more we could do. At dawn the Captain ___18___ the order to leave the ship. A few minutes later Rosa Lee ___19___ beneath the angry sea. All that could be ___20___ were a few lifeboats here and there among the waves.

1. A. left                       B. went                        C. landed                      D. forgot

2. A. bus                      B. ship                         C. plane                        D. train

3. A. worried                B. narrow                     C. excited                     D. sure

4. A. struck                  B. imagined                   C. remarked                  D. sailed

5. A. shallow                B. terrifying                  C. irregular                   D. beautiful

6. A. situation               B. gains                        C. waters                     D. management

7. A. hated                    B. loved                        C. improved                  D. greeted

8. A. In the end             B. What’s more            

C. That’s to say            D. From the beginning  

9. A. dream                  B. practice                    C. imagination               D. experience

10. A. in              &nbsEp;        B. up                            C. out of                      D. down

11. A. purpose              B. storm                       C. soul                         D. rock

12. A. up to                  B. far from                   C. less than                   D. behind

13. A. pushed               B. pulled                       C. drew                        D. looked

14. A. protected            B. attacked                   C. destroyed                 D. applied

15. A. request               B. decision                    C. sense                       D. attempt

16. A. worked               B. based                       C. stopped                    D. finished

17. A. nothing               B. space                       C. light                         D. strength

18. A. gave                   B. threw                       C. forced                      D. recognized

19. A. put forward        B. went down               C. rose up                    D. left down

20. A. enjoyed               B. criticized                  C. seen                         D. climbed