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体裁
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叙事记叙文
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话题
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两次横渡海峡
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When she looked ahead, 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 been tired until then. With only a
