英语阅读每日练2.doc

Where there is a will, there is a way. 有志者，事尽成。 PAGE  PAGE - 6 - Copyright: Zou 英语阅读每日练（九年级） (7) Some people don’t need a mailbox to send a message. They used a bottle instead. Here are two stories about people who sent a message in a bottle. Both stories are true. In 1965 a sailor （海员）from Sweden was on a ship. He wrote a letter, ask any young woman to write to him. He put the letter in a bottle and threw the bottle into the sea. Two years later, a man found the bottle on a beach in Italy. He read the letter and showed it to his daughter. She was 18. As a joke, she wrote to the sailor. They began to exchange letters. After a few months, they got married. Here is the second story. Bach in 1924, a boy from Arkansas wrote his name on the back of his picture. He put the picture in a bottle and dropped the bottle into a river. The bottle was not found until one day a man named Bill who picked it up on a beach in Florida many years later. He pulled the picture out of the bottle and looked at it. He could hardly believe his eyes. To his surprise, the boy was his friend, Tom, from Arkansas. Bill had not seen Tom for 25 years. Somehow the bottle had come to the right place. 1. After the sailor wrote the letter, he . A. threw it away B. put it in a bottle and threw it away C. put it in a bottle and threw it into the sea 2. At the end of the story, Bill and Tom must have been . A. 25 years old B. less than 25 years old C. more than 25 years old 3. The best title for the passage is A. Sending a Message in a Bottle B. Sailing on a ship C. Sending a Message to Italy (8) Some advice on journey 1. Forget Fashion! Always wear your most comfortable clothes when going on long journeys 2. Traveling on trains and buses can be boring, so take a good book to read. 3. If you’re going somewhere cold, remember your warm clothes! 4. Or, if your are going somewhere sunny, remember to