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A disastrous holiday!

Read the story and complete the text with while, during or for.

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Bill and Simone Butler left Miami one summer weekend on their annual sailing holiday in their boat, Siboney. They wanted to sail round the Caribbean Sea forduringwhileI don't know two weeks. ForWhileDuringI don't know their holiday, they saw a large group of whales. Bill and Simone were very excited. Unfortunately, duringforwhileI don't know they were watching them, the whales began to hit the side of the boat. Suddenly, water started flooding in, and they realized that they were in trouble. They quickly jumped into the lifeboat duringwhileforI don't know the boat was sinking and watched it disappear under the sea. Fortunately, they had enough food and water duringwhileforI don't know twenty days. They also had a fishing line and a machine which made salt water into drinking water. These two things helped them to survive forwhileduringI don't know their terrible experience. ForwhileduringI don't know the next fifty days, they caught about ten fish a day and ate them raw. They saw about twenty ships, but although they waved and shouted whileforduringI don't know they were passing, nobody saw them. After many other days, a fishing boat rescued them. The disastrous holiday was over.