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Exercise "King crab fishing", created by tizeph (a free exercise to learn English):
Results of the 1 470 people who have taken this test:
Average mark: 46.5 / 100 Share
Latest member with a 100/100 (perfect mark): myabrown / FRANCE, on Saturday 05 September - 14:18:
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Stats (1470 candidates)
Question 1 passed: 78.8 %
The fleet suffered the loss of a * and one of its men. You'll have a mother that's lost a son to the ocean.
Question 2 passed: 70.7 %
But now it's * on the Bering Sea, and the men have set out once again, this time to fish for Opilio crab.
Question 3 passed: 36.2 %
While King crab season was a dangerous * for glory. Opilio season is a marathon of pain.
Question 4 passed: 58.8 %
Longer, colder and * . With the risks come big rewards.
Question 5 passed: 68 %
The chance of * $30000 in only two weeks. Money, money. That's good.
Question 6 passed: 30.3 %
But the Bering Sea won't give up her riches without a fight. (Radio) 'Gale warning. Gale warning'. An approaching ice storm will make life on * treacherous,
Question 7 passed: 20.8 %
especially for inexperienced * like Kevin Davis.
Question 8 passed: 25 %
Along with the other * he will learn first hand the most important lesson of winter crab fishing on the Bering Sea: coming home ALIVE. [Musical interlude]
Question 9 passed: 47.9 %
Day one: On day one of the season aboard the 'Erla-N' the * felt the pressure
Question 10 passed: 41.2 %
as captain Bing Henkel began his quest for redemption after a * king crab season.
Question 11 passed: 50.5 %
Everyone, check the knots, everyone of them. Taking a * by fishing further north they started the
Question 12 passed: 34.3 %
season off with a * . Beautiful crab. That's all I can say.
Question 13 passed: 30.3 %
But as the Arctic storm moves south the 'Erla-N' will be one of the first boats to feel its bite. 150 miles to the south on the 'Saga' the first * came up empty.
Question 14 passed: 41.5 %
Not what we need. Our partner boat, is getting great crab up the hill. We are gonna head up that way. And the skipper Roger Strong decided to move * north towards the Erla-N's position.
Question 15 passed: 56.9 %
* the family run 'Artic Dawn' Captain Ole Helgevold, with the help of his two sons, worked through the first day, dropping all 70 of his pots.
Question 16 passed: 34.5 %
That was the last pot. Mission accomplished. The * is in the water. We're gonna be rich in three weeks. Hopefully.
Question 17 passed: 51.6 %
Ole's plan was to let them * for over 12 hours, a lifetime in crab fishing. I don't think we're that energetic anymore to pull on a short soak. Let it soak.
Question 18 passed: 12.5 %
If you've * it up good, the crab will come to you. No one knows where the large schools of Opilio crab will be this year. And Ole only has seven days to figure it out.
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