普通高中课程标准实验教科书 英语选修7 Unit 3 Reading task

　　Sedna was a beautiful young Inuit woman who lived alone offshore with her father. There were many hunters who wished to marry her but she refused them all. As Sedna's father was getting old and would soon need someone to look after Sedna, he became very angry and yelled at her,"You must acceot the next man who asks for your hand in marriage!"

　　The following day, a stranger approached in his canoe and Sedna's father dragged his daughter down to the shore. Once there he urged the hunter to marry her, saying that his daughter would make a good wife. The hunter replied that he had in fact come to ask Sedna to marry him. He promised to provide her with plenty of food, furs for clothes and blankets. Sedna looked at the man and, although his face was partly hidden in his furs, he appeared handsome enough. She agreed to marry him and he took her away in his canoe across the waters to his island.

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