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In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【21】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian
In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【21】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian
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In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【21】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian gold.【22】______thirty-nine years it lay there, too deep for divers to【23】. No one was allowed to explode it, either, since the bodies of sixty of the crew also lay in the【24】______. Then, in 1981, an ex-diver called Jessop decided to try using new diving techniques.
【25】______he could not afford to finance the【26】______which was going to cost four million pounds, he had to look for people who were【27】______to take the risk.【28】______, they were not even sure the gold was going to be there! First a Scottish diving company, then a German shipping company agreed to join in the retrieval【29】______. Not long after that, Jessop【30】______a fourth company to take a【31】______.Since the gold was the【32】______of the British and the Soviet governments, they both hoped to make a【33】______, too! The biggest problem was how to get【34】______the gold. Fortunately, they were able to examine the Edinburgh’s sister ship, the HMS Belfast, to【35】______out the exact location of the bomb room, 【36】______the gold was stored.
They knew it was to be an extremely difficult and dangerous undertaking. To reach the gold, they would have to cut a large square【37】______the body of the ship, go through the empty fuel tank and down to the bomb room. After twenty-eight dives, they【38】______to find the first bar. Everyone worked【39】______the clock, helping to clean and stack the gold, 【40】______as to finish the job as quickly as possible.
【31】
选项
A、chance
B、look
C、measure
D、choice
答案
A
解析
chance机会;look看;measure测量,措施;choice选择。根据前文提示,杰森普需要寻找愿意承担风险的人,可以推断出此处表示杰森普说服了第四家公司来承担风险。take a chance为固定搭配,表示“冒险”,等同于前文中提到的takethe risk。take alook表示“看一看”;measure和choice均不与take搭配,且与文意不符, 故选A。
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