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In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【C1】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian
In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【C1】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian
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In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【C1】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian gold.【C2】______thirty-nine years it lay there, too deep for divers to【C3】______. No one was allowed to explode it, either, since the bodies of sixty of the crew also lay in the【C4】______. Then, in 1981, an ex-diver called Jessop decided to try using new diving techniques. 【C5】______he could not afford to finance the【C6】______which was going to cost four million pounds, he had to look for people who were【C7】______to take the risk.【C8】______, they were not even sure the gold was going to be there! First a Scottish diving company, then a German shipping company agreed to join in the retrieval【C9】______Not long after that, Jessop【C10】______a fourth company to take a【C11】______. Since the gold was the【C12】______of the British and the Soviet governments, they both hoped to make a【C13】______, too! The biggest problem was how to get【C14】______the gold. Fortunately, they were able to examine the Edinburgh’s sister ship, the HMS Belfast, to【C15】______out the exact location of the bomb room,【C16】______the gold was stored.
They knew it was to be an extremely difficult and dangerous undertaking. To reach the gold, they would have to cut a large square【C17】______the body of the ship, go through the empty fuel tank and down to the bomb room. After twenty-eight dives, they【C18】______to find the first bar. Everyone worked【C19】______the clock, helping to clean and stack the gold,【C20】______as to finish the job as quickly as possible.
【C19】
选项
A、before
B、by
C、with
D、round
答案
D
解析
根据后面的“to finish the job as quickly as possible”可知人们想尽快完成这项工作,由此可推知此处想要表达的是“抓紧时间工作”,work round the clock为固定搭配,表示“全天候工作、没日没夜地工作”,故选D。
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