泛读2Unit1课外阅读材料
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太空怪人1. Alone in the Arctic Cold
(Reading Time: 5 1/2 minutes)
Day had broken exceedingly cold and gray, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the slope, where a dim and little-traveled trail led eastward through the pine forest. The slope was steep, and he paud for breath at the top. There was no sun nor hint of sun, though there was not a cloud in the sky. It was a clear day, and yet there emed to be a mist over the face of things, that made the day dark. This fact did not worry the man. He was ud to the lack of sun.
The man looked back along the way he had come. The Yukon River lay a mile wide and hidden under three feet of ice. On top of this ice were as many feet of snow. It was unbroken white, save for a dark hairline that was the trail that led south five hundred miles tboris
雅思词汇胜经pdfo the Chilcoot Pass.
exclBut all this—the mysterious, far-reaching hairline trail, the abnce of sun from the sky, the tremendous cold, and the strangeness and weirdness of it all—made no impression on the man. He was a newcomer in the land and this was his first winter. The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only in the things, and not in the significances. Fifty degrees below zero meant eighty-odd degrees of frost. Such fact impresd him as being cold and uncomfortable, and that was all. It did not lead him to think about man's weakness in general, able only to live within certain narrow limits of heat and cold. Fifty degrees below zero stood for a bit of frost that hurt and that must be guarded against by the u of thick, warm clothing. Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precily fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that never entered his head.inc
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As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive crackle that startled him. He spat again. And again, in the air, before it could fall to the snow, the spittl
e crackled. He knew that at fifty below spittle crackled on the snow, but this spittle had crackled in the air. Undoubtedly it was colder than fifty below—how much colder he did not know. But the temperature did not matter. He was bound for the old mine on the left fork of Henderson Creek where the boys were already. They had come over the hill from the Indian Creek country, while he had come the roundabout way to take a look at the possibilities of getting out logs in the spring from the islands in the Yukon. He would be in to camp by six o'clock; a bit after dark, it was true, but the boys would be there, a fire would be going, and a hot supper would be ready.口语班
He plunged in among the big pine trees. The trail was faint. He was glad he was without a sled, traveling light. In fact, he carried nothing but the lunch wrapped in the handkerchief. He was surprid, however, at the cold. It certainly was cold, he concluded, as he rubbed his numb no and cheekbones with his gloved hand. Comprehension Exerci
A.Select the most appropriate answer for each of the following questions.php培训
1.When the story began, _______.
A)it was early in the morning when a new day had just started
B)it was approaching noon but the sun was not shinning
C)it was turning dark and gray as night would soon fall
D)the sun was covered by a layer of mist in the sky
2.The Yukon trail _______.
A)was entirely covered by snow and ice
B)was a narrow path alongside the Yukon River
C)was 500 miles away in the south
D)was a path leading to the Chilcoot Pass
3.We learn from the passage that the man in the story _______
A)reacted to everything in a matter-of-fact way
B)liked to think about the meaning of life清华大学自主招生简章
C)was troubled with the strangeness and weirdness of the place
D)could not cope with the extreme cold since it was his first winter in the area
4.The man was alone in this area becau ______.
A)he took a roundabout route in order to have a better look at the place
B)the other numbers of his team wanted to reach their destination earlier
C)the others decided to take another route near Henderson Creek to explore an
old mine
D)he wanted to explore the area to e if logs be taken out in the spring
5.The man in the story _______.
A)believed he could travel much faster without a sled
B)was lucky in not traveling on a sled for the trail was too narrow for a sled
