北师大版高中英语模块10--Unit28(4)-1

[00:00.00]Unit 28
[00:04.81]Task:who wins the award?
[00:09.35]A British couple have made history
[00:11.22]by becoming the first husband-and-wife team
[00:13.58]to walk to both the North and the South Poles.
[00:16.87]After a 56-day trip across the frozen¹
[00:19.37]Antarctic Ocean,Mike Thornwill,38,
[00:22.66]and his wife Fiona,33,
[00:25.08]have become the first couple
[00:26.20]to reach the South Pole.
[00:28.33]During the trip they endured tempertures
[00:30.37]as low as -50℃.
[00:33.40]The previous years,they spent 61 days
[00:36.12]walking to the North Pole.
[00:38.53]Mr thornwill spoke² to the BBC
[00:40.78]by satellite phone:"It's absolutely awesome…"
[00:51.99]The expedition was organized to raise money
[00:54.23]for cancer research and children's charities.
[01:01.42]Child psychologist Camila Batmanghelidjh
[01:04.48]whose family came to Britain from
[01:06.19]around in 1970s had had a dream
[01:09.16]ever since her own difficult childhood,
[01:11.97]to open a drop-in centre where under-privileged
[01:15.02]children from troubled homes could take refuge³
[01:17.63]when they were not at school.
[01:20.30]She finally found a place in South London
[01:22.55]that she has been looking for
[01:23.73]to make her dream reality but was soon warned
[01:26.97]that the centre would be overrun
[01:28.71]by local teenage gangs.
[01:28.71]

1 frozen   

adj.冻结的，冰冻的

参考例句：

• He was frozen to death on a snowing night.在一个风雪的晚上，他被冻死了。
• The weather is cold and the ground is frozen.天寒地冻。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

3 refuge   

n.避难（处），庇护（所）；v.庇护，避难（所）

参考例句：

• They took refuge in a cave yesterday.他们昨天是在一个洞里避难的。
• We took refuge in the lee of the wall.我们在墙的背风处暂避。