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SAILING TO A GLOBAL CHALLENGEShort answers:
1 BT Global Challenge 2000/2001
2 September, 2000
3 All round the world, 48,000kms
4 It's against the prevailing winds and currents.
5 Up to fifteen
6 22 metres
7 Every four years
8 17 crew and a professional skipper
9 £800,000 (pounds sterling)
10 They are lighter, faster, more powerful and have a greater fuel capacity.
11 The latest communications technology, including e-mail, video conferencing
and Internet facilities plus 3 different satellite systems.
12 No, they are amateurs except for the Skipper who is a professional.
13 "to allow ordinary people to experience the rigours and rewards of the Challenge"
14 A person who does only one leg or part of the race.
15 They come from many countries in the world.
16 It will be donated to the Save the Children charity.
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SEA STORY
Answers:
1) The toilers were the fishermen.
2) Because they were superstitious.
Grammar
3) The main verbs are
rose / thought / was / had crowed
4) rose - past simple, to rise: thought - past simple, to think; was - past simple, to be:
had crowed - past perfect, to crow.
5) Because the crowing happened further in the past.
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