In July 1976, my wife Mary, son Jonathan, 6, daughter Suzanne, 7, and I set sail from Plymouth, England,

to duplicate the round-the-world voyage made 200 years earlier by Captain James cook. For the longest
time, Mary and i----a 37-year-old businessman – had dreamt of sailing in the wake of the famous
explorer, and for the past 16 years, we had spent all our leisure time honing our seafaring skills in British
waters. Our boat wave walker, 23 meter, 30-ton wooden –hulled beauty, had been professionally built
and we had spent months fitting it out and testing it in the roughest weather we could find. The first leg
of our planned three-year, 105,000 kilometer journey passed pleasantly as we sailed down the west
coast of Africa to Cape Town.

Questions:

1) What was the occupation of the writer?

(a) A businessman
(b) A sailor
(c) A doctor
(d) A navy office
2) What does ‘seafaring’ mean?
(a) Swimming in a sea
(b) Trading by sea
(c) Regular travelling by sea
(d) None of these
3) What was the name of their boat?
(a) Titanic
(b) Voyager
(c) Wave walker
(d) Avenger
4) Which of these is similar in meaning to leisure?
(a) Limited time
(b) Free time
(c) Lab our
(d) Difficulty
5) Two hundred years ago, a round – the- world voyage was by Captain James cook. True/false

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That evening Mary and I sat together holding hands, as the motion of the ship brought more and
more water in through the broken planks. We both felt the end was very near. But wave walker rode
out the storm and by the morning of January 6, with the wind easing, I tried to get a reading on the
sextant.

Questions:

(1) Who is Mary?

(a) wife of author
 (b) mother of sue
(c) mother of Jon
(d) all of the above
(2) why Mary and the author were holding hands of each other?
(a) They wanted to heal the hands of each other.
(b) They wanted to remain on the ship.
(c) They wanted to comfort each other.
(d) They wanted to jump in the sea together.
(3) What is the meaning of phrase ‘rode out’ in above extract?
(a) Went out
(b) Came out
(c) Jumped out
(d) Dug out
(4) What did the couple think about their situation?
(a) It will improve
(b) It will remain the same
(c) Their end was near.
(d) They could not decide anything.
(5) Sextant is used for measuring-
(a) Weight
(b) Angle
(c) Speed
(d) Opacity