Big storms. High waves. Technical failure. Loneliness. After battling hard times and danger for over nine months, British teenager Mike Perham made history last month as the youngest person to sail solo(單獨(dú)) around the world.
The 17-year-old made the record after he cleared the Panama Canal (巴拿馬運(yùn)河) and then sailed through the Caribbean and home across the Atlantic.
Mike is only three month s younger than Zac Sunderland, the 17-year-old American boy who had taken the crown as the youngest solo around-the-world sailor in July.
The two youngsters met in Cape Town in South Africa as they crossed the globe in different      direciions.  Mike insisted they were not rival  (竟?fàn)帉?duì)手).  " No.  It's two teenagers going out there,living their dream and having the adventure of a lifetime, " he said.
Mike may be young, but he is no stranger to sailing adventures. 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 60-foot wave and threw 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 30-second dives undemeath (在......之下) 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.
小題1:What' s the main idea of the passage? (No more than 15 words)
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小題2:Which canal did Mike Perham cross? (No more than 3 words)
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小題3:What does the underlined word 'staste" in the fifth paragrapht mean? (1 word)
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小題4:What did Mike believe in? ( No more than 10 words)
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小題5:What do you think of Mike Perham? (No more than 10 words)
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小題1:How a British teenager succeeded in sailing solo aroune the world as the youngest person.
小題2:The Panama Canal.
小題3:Experience.
小題4:Having confidence yourself will make you successful.
試題解析：本文講述了英國(guó)小將貝克作為世界上最年輕的獨(dú)自一人圍繞世界航行的的成功。
小題1:根據(jù)文章首段介紹英國(guó)小將貝克獨(dú)自一人航行世界的成功，下面詳細(xì)介紹了他是怎樣克服困難成功做到的，所以本文主要講了他是怎樣成功的。
小題2:根據(jù)第二段The 17-year-old made the record after he cleared the Panama Canal (巴拿馬運(yùn)河) and then sailed through the Caribbean and home across the Atlantic.可以得出答案。
小題3:根據(jù)文章最后一段d 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.得出答案。
小題4:根據(jù)最后一段可以看出是自信使他成功，所以答案是Having confidence yourself will make you successful.
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