There has been, in history, a man who wasswallowed by a whale and lived to tell the tale. Theman's name is James Bartley.

　　The records to prove his unusual experience arein the British Admiralty.

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　　Bartley was making his first trip on the whalingship Star of the East. Suddenly the lookout found ahuge whale . The whalers knew it was a huge whale by the size of the spray it blew into theair. They lowered their small boats. James Bartley was in the first longboat . The men roweduntil they were close to the whale. A harpoon(鱼叉) was thrown and it found its mark. It sankinto the whale' s flesh. The maddened beast jumped out of the water and broke the boat intopieces. When the survivors were picked up, James Bartley was missing.

　　Shortly before sunset, the whale was finally caught. The sailors tied the whale' s carcass tothe side of the ship.

　　Because of the hot weather it was important that they cut up the whale right away.Otherwise, the meat would begin to rot and the oil would begin to spoil. When they got to thestomach, they felt something moving about wildly. They thought it would be a big fish still aliveinside. But when they opened the stomach they found James Bartley. After this trip, Bartleysettled in Gloucester, England, and never returned to sea.

　　1.This passage is mainly about

　　A.how to hunt whales for their oil and meat.

　　B.the hard and dangerous lives that whalers had to live.

　　C.the duties of each man on a whaling ship.

　　D.a man who was swallowed by a whale and lived.

　　2.The sailors knew that something was in the whale' s stomach because

　　A.they could feel it moving about wildly.

　　B.the whale seemed very heavy .

　　C.the whale was bulging(鼓起来) at one spot.

　　D.the captain heard Bartley crying for help.

　　3.James Bartley never went to sea again because

　　A.he wanted different kinds of adventures

　　B.of fright and shock.

　　C.he was hurt by the whale.

　　D.he often got seasick.

　　4. The author, in telling James Bartley's story, gives us information by

　　A.making us laugh

　　B.talking about whaling in general.

　　C.comparing whaling to other fishing.

　　D.dramatically(戏剧性地) telling what happened.

　　5. The word carcass refers to the

　　A.whale' s tail . B.whale' s stomach. C.dead body of the whale. D.whale' s side

　　答案

　　1.D

　　2.A

　　3.B

　　4.D

　　5.C

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