基礎英語綜合讀寫教程（簡體書）

《大學外語系列叢書:基礎英語綜合讀寫教程》可作為基礎階段大學英語專業泛讀教材，也可以作為非英語專業學生的普通英語閱讀教材使用。

Lesson One Man and Animals
Lesson Two Travelling with "Queen"
Lesson Three Myths and Fossil Hunting
Lesson Four Photography
Lesson Five Modern Toys
Lesson Six Adventures on the Icefall
Lesson Seven Travel Schooling
Lesson Eight Our Earliest Ancestors
Lesson Nine How Money Began
Lesson Ten Blessings from Nature
Lesson Eleven Modern Technologies
Lesson Twelve The Wonder of Language
Lesson Thirteen Adventures in Roraima
Lesson Fourteen The Sinking of Titanic
Lesson Fifteen Child Labour
Lesson Sixteen Bullying
Lesson Seventeen Mission
Lesson Eighteen Blessed Piracies
Lesson Nineteen Disastrous Damage to Oceans
Lesson Twenty Road Accidents
Lesson Twenty-one Teaching in China
Lesson Twenty-two Drawbacks of Social Progress
Lesson Twenty-three Pleasure of Diving
Lesson Twenty-four Hurricanes
Lesson Twenty-five The Age of Bacteria
Lesson Twenty-six Migration
Lesson Twenty-seven Insomnia
Lesson Twenty-eight Robbery
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3 Racing all in one go under these overhangs that cast menacing shadows was impossible; the body wouldn't allow it. Repeatedly we would be halfway through, then would be forced to stop and recover our breath, still deep within the jaws of the overhang. But there was nothing we could do;the body had to stop and get more oxygen. Once safely out the other side we would sit and recover and encourage the other to follow quickly. We were new to the icefall and were trying to leam its tricks.
4 Soon we were out of the nasty section and back among more familiar territory. Ahead we could see the plateau where we had left the Sherpas. We passed through the part that they had been repairing. We could be no more than 100 meters from the icefall doctors now. I was looking forward to seeing them, and then getting down. We had been in the ice for almost nine hours now and were tired. Little did I know that the day was far from over. As I came round the corner of a cornice, I could hear the whispered voices of Nima and Pasang nearby. Energy flooded back and I leapt from ice block to ice block down towards them. Ten yards later I needed to stop and rest. They were close now. I smiled at the sound of their hushed and tentative tones. I unclipped, and clipped into the next rope down, and leant against the ice, recovering. Suddenly the ground just opened up beneath me. The ice cracked for that transient second, then just collapsed. My legs buckled beneath me,and I was falling. I tumbled down, bouncing against the grey walls of the crevasse that before had been hidden beneath a thin veneer of ice. The tips of my crampons caught the edge of the crevasse walls and the force threw me across to the other side, smashing my shoulder and arm against the ice.I carried on falling then suddenly was jerked to a violent halt, as the rope held me firm. The falling ice crashed into my skull, jerking my neck backwards. I lost consciousness for a precious few seconds. I came to, to see the ice falling away below me into the darkness, as my body gently swung round on the end of the rope. It was eerily silent.
5 Adrenalin soared round my body, and I shook in waves of convulsions. I screamed, but can't remember what. My voice echoed round the walls. I looked up to the ray oflight above, then down to the abyss below. Panic overwhelmed me and I clutched frantically for the walls. They were glassy smooth. I swung my ice axe at it madly, but it wouldn't hold, and my crampons just scraped along the ice. I had nothing to lean against, no momentum to be able to kick them in. Instead the flimsy stabs with my feet hardly even brushed the surface of the ice. I clutched in desperation to the rope above me, and looked up. "Hold, damn you!" I grabbed a spare jumar device from my harness. (This is a climbing tool that allows you to ascend a rope but will not allow you to slip down. ) I slapped it on to the rope as added security. Suddenly, I felt strong pulls tugging on the rope above. They would not be able to pull me out without my help. I knew I had to get out of here fast. The rope was not designed for an impact fall like this. It was a miracle that I had held at all,and I knew it could break at any point. The pulls on the rope above gave me the momentum I needed to kick into the walls with my crampons. This time they fit into the ice firmly. Up I pulled,kicking into the walls, a few feet higher every time. I scrambled up, helped by the momentum from the rope. Near the lip, I managed to smack my axe into the ice and pull myself over. Strong arms grabbed my windsuit and hauled me with great power from the clutches of the crevasse. They dragged me to the side out of danger, and we all collapsed in a heaving mess. I lay with my face pressed into the snow, eyes closed, and shook with fear.