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初中英语阅读14（有答案） A.True or False Mike enjoyed going fishing and decided that he needed a new boat. A friend named Peter said that he knew of a boat for sale at a place called White Bay. Mike telephoned and asked why it was for sale. The woman who was selling the boat explained that it had been her husband抯. His name was Wayne and he used to go fishing a lot at night. One morning, however, another fisherman had found Wayne抯 boat empty out at sea. Wayne wasn抰 in the boat and people thought that he had drowllined（淹死）. The woman said that her husband’s body had never been found. Now she hated the boat and wanted to sell it quickly. It was a good fishing boat but Mike bought it very cheaply. He moved the boat 100 kilometres or so to a harbour near where he lived. One Friday Mike and Peter were out in the boat a long way from the coast. It suddenly became very cloudy and the air was white, so they couldn’t see anything around them. Mike told Peter to turn off the engine and wait for the weather to get better. He said that as they were a long way from land, it was much safer to wait. The men waited but the weather didn’t improve. In fact, it got worse. At ten o’clock Mike told Peter to start the engine of the boat, but it wouldn’t start. Mike tried to use the radio, but it was broken. Then the lights went out. They were in the dark in a broken-down boat a long way out to sea. At around 12 a.m. they decided to go to sleep. The next thing Mike knew it was morning and he could hear something noisy. Was it another boat? He opened his eyes and looked out. The noise wasn’t a boat, it was a car. Their boat was in a harbour, but not Mike’s harbour. The boat was back in White Bay where Mike had bought it. Maybe only one person could have brought the boat there safely. That was Wayne, and he was dead. 1. Mike wanted to buy a new boat because he liked fishing. 2. Wayne wasn’t in the boat when his boat was found at sea. 3. Wayne’s wife hated her husband and wanted to sell the boat qui