阅读理解。
Travel has been a considerable part of my life and I have made different kinds of joumeys to
many parts of the world. Often in my travels,l was alone, traveling under difficult conditions in
wartime. And I have flown over the oceans many times when I wanted to get quickly from one
place to another. But a sea voyage,especially a long one,has some.thing unusual of its own,and
after taking a few of them,l became interested in the reasons why people take such trips and how
they are affected by them. That is why I wanted to write Life Number Two.
Some people go for escape from grief or failure, some from a wish not to be very long iri one
place in the world. Others go to celebrate a marriage, or a retirement,and many people take voyages
to enjoy a luxury(享乐) they do not have at home and for shipboard fun. When you put all these
motives (动机) into a forced companionship (伙伴关系 ) and sometimes an unpleasant one a
voyage can be like a mirror held up to modem life with all its variety (多样性 ) . Voyages can
be boring but they can give some passengers new view on life,renew courage and awaken a sense
of the size of the world.
There are many books about ocean voyages,but as a rule they are magazines or diaries of travel.
Life Number Two is a novel written not mainly to show shipboard life but to tell the stories of a few
people on board,trying their past lives and their possible futures into the narratives(叙述).lt also deals
with some modem socialproblems worth our consideration.
1. The writer spent in travelling.
A. all his life
B. the most important part of life
C. the period of wartime
D. much time ,
2.Life Num,ber Two tells how people feel when they
A. are alone in their trips .
B. fly quickly from one place to another
C. are on board a ship for a long time
D. are always in one place of the world .
3. A sea voyage in one's life is as the writer says.
A. sometimes a thing worth doing
B. a waste of time
C. a sign of failure
D. one's strong wish
4. The shipboard life is
A. very Liresome
B. very luxurious
C. a reflection (反映) of society
D. very funny
