He picked up the hobby at age 6 when his father took him out in a small boat on a local lake.
Father and son sailed separate boats across the Atlantic when Mike was 14, making him the youngest person to cross that ocean solo. That record gave him the taste for this even greater challenge.
On the recent journey, the scariest moment for Mike came when his sailboat was hit by storms in the southern Indian Ocean.
“We were picked up by what felt like a 60foot wave and throw down on our side at 90 degrees,” he said.
It felt like I was going right over.
Stuff was flying around and I just thought‘Oh,no'.
At other times, he had to dive into the Pacific and fix problems. He tied himself to the boat, jumped into the water and went to work with a knife in 30second dives underneath the boat to cut a rope away.
Mike said he felt proud that he made his dream come true.“You've got to have confidence in yourself that you will make it,” he said.
【语篇解读】 英国少年Mike Perham历尽艰险,成为当今世界上最年轻的孤帆环游世界的人。
44.What's the main idea of the passage?
A.A British teenager became the youngest person to sail solo around the world.
B.How a British teenager developed his sailing hobby.
C.A British teenager's brave experience.
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