II. READING COMPREHENSION

2.1. Read the text below and decide which answer A, B, C, or D fits each space.

Lucky survivors
A couple from Miami, Bill and Simon Butler, ___(1)___ sixty-six days in a life-raft in the sea of central America after their yacht sank. They survived in very good ___(2)___. Twenty-one days after they left Panama in their yacht, they met some whales. “They started to hit the side of the boat”, said Bill, “and then ___(3)___ we heard water.”Two minutes ___(4)___, the yacht was sinking. They jumped into the life-raft and watched the boat go ___(5)___ the water. For twenty days they had ___(6)___ of food, biscuits, and bottle of water. They also had a fishing-line and a machine to make salt water into drinking water, two things which ___(7)___ their lives. They caught eight to ten fish a day and ate them raw. Then the line broke. “So we had no more fish ___(8)___ something very strange happened. Some sharks came to feed and the fish under the raft were afraid and came to the surface. I caught them with my hands.” About twenty ships ___(9)___ them, but no one saw them. After fifty days at sea their life-raft was beginning to break up. Then suddenly it was all over. A fishing boat saw them and ___(10)___ them up, their two months at sea was over.