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名著节选Captain Nemo invited me and my friends to go hunting with him in the forests of Crespo Island. Ned was e
1. He thought there might be a good chance to leave here. I was not so sure. When I saw Captain Nemo the next day, I asked him w
2 he was so interested in Crespo Island. “I thought you l
3 the sea instead of being on land.”
“I do,” replied the captain. “But these forests are under the sea.” When Ned realized that we were not going onto l
4 for our hunting trip, he decided not to come at all.
We put on our diving suits and soon we were about ten metres under the water. The light from the sun reached u
5. Everything looked very colourful. Conseil and I followed Captain Nemo. We were going deeper and deeper. Two hours later, we were a hundred metres under the water. The suits w
6 very well, and it was easy to walk and breathe.
At one hundred metres deep, we could s 7 see quite well, and Captain Nemo stopped and pointed to some dark shapes. This was the f
8. The “trees” in it were giant seaweed. Fish swam a
9 the branches like birds in a forest. There are flowers near the seaweed trees.
Suddenly, I saw a large sea spider about a metre tall. It was going to attack me. Captain Nemo’s man killed it with his air rifle, but it reminded me that the sea could be as d
10 as it was beautiful. We c
ontinued to walk downhill.
—Taken from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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land
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forest
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dangerous