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Captain Nemo seemed very sure that that savages could not harm us. I slept well. When I went outside the next morning, I saw that there were many more natives on the beach. It was low tide, and many of them had come quite close to the Nautilus. I asked Conseil to get a net, and we used it to get some shells from the water. They were very pretty shells. Suddenly, I saw a very rare and beautiful shell. We looked at it together. One of the savages threw a stone at us and broke the shell. Conseil was very angry. He fired his gun at the savage. Then, we noticed that the savages had come very close to the Nautilus in their canoes. A few moments later, they began to shoot their arrows at us. We went inside and told Captain Nemo about it. He ordered his men to close the doors.

"But what will happen tomorrow?" I asked. "You will have to open the doors to get more air, and the savages will come in."

"Do you think they will dare?"

"I am sure they will."

"We have nothing to fear," he said again.

Captain Nemo asked me about our trip to the island. I told him what we had seen and done. We talked about another French sailor called D'Urville, whose ship was wrecked in the Torres Strait. He told me again that the high tide the next day would lift the Nautilus off the reef. (選自《海底兩萬里》)

1.The word "savages" may have the similar meaning to ________ in this passage.

A.natives B.shells C.Nautilus D.canoes

2.Conseil and I tried to get some shells with a(n) ________.

A.gun B.arrow C.net D.ship

3.Conseil shot at the savage because the savage ________.

A.looked very ugly B.threw a stone at him

C.shot an arrow at him D.broke the shell with a stone

4.The story happened when the Nautilus ________.

A.was flying over the Torres Strait B.was running in the ocean

C.was kept on the reef D.was with D'Urville

Answer 1