Unit 4 Wildlife Protection reading课时作业

　　Ⅰ.单词拼写

　　1．Can you give me some (背景) on the situation?

　　2．A strong man will bear (困苦) without complaining.

　　3．Working in the sun soon gave us a (口渴)．

　　4．He could never have (预见) that one day his books would sell in millions.

　　5．Humans are sensitive to (逐渐的) changes of brightness and color.

　　6．Did that ever cause (紧张) in your relationship?

　　7．I'd like to (存入) two hundred dollars.

　　8．He was faced with the (进退两难的困境) of whether or not to return to his country.

　　9．The only (缺点) to the project is its expense.

　　10．Toni (估算) that it must be about three o'clock.

　　【答案】　1.background　2.hardship　3.thirst

　　4．foreseen　5.gradual　6.tension　7.deposit

　　8．dilemma　9.drawback　10.reckoned

　　Ⅱ.阅读理解

　　A

　　London，England(CNN)-The youngest person to sail solo around the world returned home on Thursday from his 30，000­mile，282­day ocean journey.

　　Mike Perham，17，sailed into Lizard Point in Cornwall，the southernmost point in Britain，at 9：47 a．m.，his race team said.

　　"It feels absolutely brilliant，" Mike told CNN by phone hours before crossing the finish line."I'm really，really excited to be going across the line at last.It doesn't feel like long since I crossed it first."