课时作业(十三)　[必修3　Unit 3 The Million Pound Bank Note] (限时：30分钟). 完形填空Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was__1__. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours.

　　Already she was the first woman to __2__ the English Channel in both directions. Now, at age 34, her __3__ was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to the California coast.

　　On the July fourth morning in 1952, the sea was icy and the fog was so heavy that she could __4__see her support boats. Sharks swam towards her lone figure, only to be __5__ away by gun shots. Against the cold sea water, she struggled on—hour after hour—while millions watched on national __6__．

　　Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn't much farther. But what she could see was __7__. They urged her not to __8__. She never had…until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out.

　　Several hours later, she told a reporter, “Look, I'm not __9__ myself, but if I could have seen __10__， I might have made it.” It was not tiredness or even the cold water that defeated her. It was the fog. She was __11____12__， she tried again. This time, despite the same __13__she swam with her faith and her goal __14__ pictured in her mind. She knew that somewhere behind that fog was land and this time she __15__ it! Florence Chadwick became the first woman to swim the Catalina Channel!

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