Read the following passage and choose the best answers.
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Read the following passage and choose the best answers.
LUCKY SURVIVORS
A couple from Miami, Bill and Simon Butler, (56) ______ sixty-six days in a life-raft in the sea of central America after their yacht sank. They survived in very good (57) ______.
Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their yacht, they met some whales. “ They started to hit the side of the boat”, said Bill, “and then (58) ______ we heard water.”
Two minutes (59) ______ , the yacht was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go (60) ______ the water. For twenty days they had (61) ______ of food, biscuits, and bottle of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water, two things which (62) ______ their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw. Then the line broke. “ So we had no more fish …58…something very strange happened. Some sharks came to feed and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.”
About twenty ships (63) ______ them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing brat saw them and (64) ______ them(65) ______ . Their two months at sea was over.
56. A. took up B. went C. spent D. occupied
57. A. condition B. way C. manner D. state
58. A. occasionally B. suddenly C. quickly D. clearly
59. A. later B. after C. soon D. passing
60. A. in B. down C. under D. below
61. A. containers B. tins C. boxes D. packages
62. A. rescued B. helped C. maintained D. saved
63. A. until B. when C. as D. that
64. A. went round B. moved near C. traveled D. passed
65. A. took / on B. pull / on C. picked / up D. moved / up
