Some people don't need a mailbox to send a message. They use a bottle i 1       Here are two stories about people who sent a message in a bottle. B 2       stories are true.

In 1965,a sailor from Sweden was on a ship. He wrote a letter,a 3       any young woman to write to him. He put the letter in a bottle and t 4       the bottle into the sea.

Two years later,a man found the bottle on a beach in Italy. He read the letter and s 5       it to his daughter. His daughter was 18. As a joke,she wrote to the sailor. They began to exchange letters. After a few months,they were married.

Here is the s 6       story. Back in 1924,a boy from Arkansas wrote his name on the back of his picture. He put the picture in a bottle and dropped the bottle into a river.

The bottle was not found for many years u 7       one day a man named Bill picked it up on a beach in Florida. He looked at the picture. He could h 8       believe his eyes. To his great s 9       ,the boy in the picture was his friend,Tom,from Arkansas.

Bill had not seen Tom for 25 years. Somehow the bottle had come to the right p 10       .

1. i       2. B       3. a       4. t       5. s      

 

6. s       7. u       8. h       9. s       10. p       

  1. instead   2. Both   3. asking   4. threw

5. showed   6. second   7. until   8. hardly

9. surprise   10. place

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