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    One of the great seafaring eccentrics, Tristan Jones, died in 1995 at the age of 71. Like Long John Silver, he had lost a leg—though in his case the replacement was made of plastic. His sole crew on his many voyages: was Nelson, a three-legged, one eyed Labrador. He never had much money, recognition or fame, but he has been called the greatest lone sailor of our age.
    Tristan Jones was born at sea, on his father’ s ship as it rounded Cape Horn. Though brought up in Wales, he spent most of his life sailing boats single-handedly, and went four times round the world. He claimed to have sailed 400,000 miles, mostly alone, and held dozens of records.
    He went to sea when he was fourteen and was sunk three times before his nineteenth birthday. During the war he served as a stoker on the battleship Warspite, rising to petty officer three times, but each time being demoted to stoker—"for fighting," he said. Disabled out of the Navy when guerrillas blew up his ship in Aden, he was told he would never walk again. For most, that would have been the end of a seafaring career. For Tristan Jones, it was the start of his solo sailing.
    With Nelson, he ventured into the Arctic, trying to beat the record for the farthest north any boat had got. His craft was an antique lifeboat powered by an old London Fire Brigade pumping engine. For a year and a day he was trapped in the ice, yet he got within 285 miles of the record. The voyage took two years and the book he wrote about it, Ice, is a classic.
    The Arctic voyage, funded by his ￡ 3-a-week Navy pension, was only the beginning. Afterwards , desperate for money, he went back to stoking boilers—this time in Harrods, where he lived off scraps from the food hall. As soon as he had saved enough for a boat, he was off again. Jones’s last round-the-world voyage was from west to east—the hard way. He said the sunsets looked so much better when seen from the stern. As well as going round the world, he held the record for the greatest vertical voyage—from the Dead Sea in Israel, 1,310 feet below sea level, to Lake Titicaca in the Peruvian Andes, the world’ s highest lake at 12,505 feet. From there he sailed up the Amazon and, starving, hacked his way through the dense swamps of the Mato Grosso in Brazil. The book he wrote about those three weeks of the hell in the jungle—The Incredible Voyage—became another bestseller.
    Frequently his journeys were halted by poverty: he would hold up in a port, write another book, and on the proceeds sail on. Altogether he wrote seventeen marine adventure stories, two novels and dozens of short stories.
    Part of his last round-the-world epic included a journey overland. With the group of three disabled Thai youths, he sailed as far up the Trang River as he could. Then he enlisted an India elephant and the headwaters of the Tapee River.
    People found his exploits thrilling but some never understood what motivated him. "Why do you do it?" they asked. His answer: "You get up one day and think you would like to go to New Guinea. So you go. "
    Tristan Jones said once: " I’ ve sailed an ocean-going craft as close to heaven as may be done until man finds water among the stars. " As an epitaph for a sailor, it will serve.
Question 71 -75: Complete the summary below with information from the passage, using no more than the three words for each blank.
    Tristan Jones, one of the greatest lone sailors, was born on his father’s ship. Out of passionate love for seafaring, Jones spent most of his lifetime sailing boats【R1】______-handedly, with a three-legged Labrador, his only companion. Everybody thought that his sailing career would be ceased due to the war which turned him to be disabled. However, Jones persisted in going to the Arctic with an【R2】______powered by a pumping engine. From then on, Jones made many voyage around the world. His greatest【R3】______from the Dead Sea to Lake Titicaca contributed to another bestseller—The Incredible Voyage. Sometimes Jones had to stop his journey because of financial problems. In his lifetime he wrote 17【R4】______stories, 2 novels and many short stories. Few people could understand what【R5】______the old man of the sea though most of us really appreciate the amazing life he had. [br] 【R1】
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答案 single
解析 (文章第二段第二句提到“…he spent most of his life sailing boats single—handedly…”，即Tristan Jones的大半生都在独自航行中度过。single—handedly独力地，单独地。)
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