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1、Text 2Visions On Ice Information related to the text1)About the text:Wally Herbert is a polar explorer of International distinction - the greatest polar explorer of our time, according to Sir Ranulph Fiennes; a phenomenon according to the late Lord Shackleton, and a man whose determination and coura
2、ge, according to His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, are of such heroic proportions that his country should mark his achievements eventually by having him stuffed and put on display!Meanwhile, in recognition of his polar achievements, he has received a string of those more conventional honors and aw
3、ards: among them the Polar Medal and bar; the gold medals of several Geographical Societies, and the highest honor of the Explorers Club (the so-called Explorers Medal). He has a mountain range and a plateau named after him in the Antarctic; the most northerly mountain in the Svalbard Group named af
4、ter him in the Arctic and, besides being an explorer with biographical entries in Whos Who in the World, the encyclopedias and the Guinness Book of Records, he is also a prize winning author with nine books so far to his credit, and an artist whose paintings are now owned by Royals and investors all
5、 over the World.In 1999, Wally Herbert was knighted in recognition of his achievements. 2)Language notes:1. Shackleton called it a phenomenon and HRH Prince Philip, the expeditions patron, hailed it as an achievement which ranks among the greatest triumphs of human skill and endurance.In the sentenc
6、e the word phenomenon means a wonder. e.g. The huge success of her books makes her a remarkable phenomenon of the mid-1970s.2. Today, among his contemporaries in polar exploration Herbert is a guru and Sir Ranulph Fiennes says: 怕.3. His navigation, field craft and logistics are superb and his awaren
7、ess of what dogs can and cant do unparalleled.Logistics:后勤 4.Inverness ,a port city in Britain.5.In his environment, Herbert is the Sean Connery of all James Bonds. Sean Connery:(1930-) British actor, most recognized for starring as the sophisticated British secret agent James Bond.6.It was precisel
8、y the moment that the Astronaut Jack Young took the famous photograph of the Earthrise from the moon. Earthrise:地出(从月球或宇宙飞船,地球似从月球的地平线升起) 7.A physiotherapist would probably tell me that I didnt want to be a child, which is probably true. Physiotherapist: a doctor who uses physiotherapeutic methods t
9、o treat patients.8.Gradually Herbert achieved historic journeys, mapping some 38 000 square miles of previously unexplored country in the Nimrod Glacier region and the Queen Maud Range from 1960-62 and retracing Amundsens route on the Axel Hiberg Glacier on the fiftieth anniversary of his descent of
10、 those icefalls in 1952.The word map can be used as a verb which means to draw a map of. 9.And then with soaring ambitions he returned to England to gather the support of distinguished polar explorers so that the Royal Geographical Society would approve his expedition to cross the Arctic Ocean.Royal
11、 Geographical Society:英国皇家地理学会。10.In 1971 he set out with his wife and baby daughter, Kari for north-west Greenland to live with the Polar Eskimos.Polar Eskimos:住在极地的爱斯基摩人。11.His youngest daughter Pascale was killed in a freak electrical accident four years ago which the whole family are struggling
12、to come to terms with. Come to terms with: to accept the reality of.Text 2 Visions on Ice Wally Herbert is the greatest pioneering polar explorer alive today. Here is a man who led the British Trans-Arctic Expedition, a 16-month, pioneering journey of 3 800 miles, much of it in the pitch darkness, o
13、ver a moving ice ocean that was constantly shifting and breaking up, with three men and a team of four dogs. This journey, it is now universally agreed, was the last great journey left on the face of the earth. A journey that no one since has even dared attempt. This was a geographical first that ra
14、nked alongside climbing Everest and the first surface crossing of the Southern and Northern icecaps of the Earth. Thirty years on from this journey Wally Herbert is the last link between the explorers from the heroic age of exploration and our modern day adventures. Yet he has never been honored for
15、 his outstanding achievement in Polar exploration. This is despite the fact that Prime Minister Harold Wilson claimed the Trans-Arctic journey as a feat of endurance and courage which ranks with any in polar history, Shackleton called it a phenomenon and HRH Prince Philip, the expeditions patron, ha
16、iled it as an achievement which ranks among the greatest triumphs of human skill and endurance.Today, among his contemporaries in polar exploration Herbert is a guru and Sir Ranulph Fiennes says: Ive grown up thinking hes the greatest of the polar travelers of today. His navigation, fieldcraft and l
17、ogistics are superb and his awareness of what dogs can and cant do unparalleled. Wally is very genuine and if I had to pick out of all the travelers who are alive today, Wally is the greatest by a big head. Herbert has helped many a young adventurer on his way, with crucial advice on equipment, mapp
18、ing and contacts. None of these men have retraced his pioneering journeys in the Antarctic or the Arctic.To mark the anniversary of Herberts expedition reaching the North Pole on the 60th anniversary of Robert E Pearys discredited claim to have done so first, an exhibition of Herberts polar painting
19、s will be showing at the Atlas Studio Gallery in London. For nowadays, Herbert, aged 64, has become a polar painter, etching out the most detailed, intense and moving scenes from polar history and the present that have influenced his life. At Inverness airport, Wally and his wife Marie are waiting t
20、o meet me. I get a good look at him before he does me. He is diminutive, 5 foot 8 inches, not the usual macho image of a great explorer but he has on a coat designed for the Arctic weather, with a fur-lined hood, framing a grizzly beard and small sparkling eyes. His posture is unimposing and his sho
21、ulders a little hunched. Marie gives me a warm welcome. The Herberts have never owned a house of their own and they are presently renting a doll-size white-washed bothy, overlooking the Spey valley. The view of the rolling hills is impressive but the noise from the small, occasionally busy road aggr
22、avates Wally. He craves silence.See me in my environment, he urges before we start the interview proper. He shows me a film of his life in the Arctic and past journeys that is currently in post-production. When he is in the Arctic, the shackles and difficulty that he finds with life in Britain are s
23、haken off and he visibly relaxes.In his environment, Herbert is the Sean Connery of all James Bonds. He is softly spoken, glowing and confident. On film, he reminisces passionately of the fear he felt before setting out on his Trans-Arctic journey. Looking ahead at the journey was psychologically ve
24、ry frightening because while he had traveled in the footsteps of Shackleton, Scott and Amundsen, no one had ever attempted this journey. Finding the North Pole was rather like stepping on the shadow of a bird hovering overhead. This was because the ice was constantly moving and the sun only intermit
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