Unit 3: A trip to the countryside - Read

Read the following passage and choose the best answers. LUCKY SURVIVORS        A couple from Miami, Bill and Simon Butler, (1) ______ sixty-six days in a life-raft in the sea of central America after their yacht sank. They survived in very good (2) ______.        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 (3) ______ we heard water.”        Two minutes (4) ______ , the yacht was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go (5) ______ the water. For twenty days they had (6) ______ 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 (7) ______ 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 (8) ______ 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 (9) ______ them(10) ______ . Their two months at sea was over.