Unit 5 Humans and Nature Period Three（教师用书Word）-【状元桥·优质课堂】2023-2024学年新教材高中英语必修第二册（北师大版2019）

Period Three　Lesson 2 & Lesson 3—Comprehending [教材原文] RACE TO THE POLE On 1 June,1910, Captain<1> Robert Falcon Scott left London to begin his journey to Antarctica.While he was on the way to<2> Antarctica, he received a message from the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen which said he was going south, too.Then the race to the South Pole began! [词汇注解] <1>captain/ˈkæptIn/n.上校；上尉；队长；组长；船长；机长 <2>on the way to 在去……的途中 奔向南极的比赛 1910年6月1日，罗伯特·福尔肯·斯科特上校离开伦敦，开始了他的南极之旅。在去往南极洲的途中，他收到了挪威探险家罗尔德·阿蒙森的消息，说他也要去南极洲。于是，奔向南极的比赛就开始了！ During the polar<3> summer of 1910～1911, both teams organised food bases<4> in preparation for their journeys the next year.①Then came the total darkness of the polar winter.Scott and Amundsen waited anxiously<5> for spring. ②Amundsen was the first to leave on 8 September,1911.He had teams of dogs pulling the sledges<6> and all his men were on skis<7>.Because of this, he made rapid progress.Scott left on 1 November and soon had problems.First, his two sledges broke down<8> and then the horses began to have serious difficulties with the snow and the cold.After a while, Scott and his men had to push the sledges themselves. Amundsen reached the Pole on 14 December, 1911 and put a Norwegian flag there.Then he prepared for the return journey.Amundsen and his team arrived safely back to their starting base on 25 January, 1912, ten days ahead of their planned schedule. Scott finally arrived at the Pole with four team members on 17 January, 1912. They were shocked when they saw the Norwegian flag.Scott wrote in his diary： “Well, we have now lost the goal of our ambition<9> and must face 800 miles of hard pushing—and goodbye to most of our dreams.” The return journey was one of the worst in the history of exploration<10>.The men were soon very tired and were running out of food.The weather conditions were terrible.Scott started to realise their hopeless situation： “We are very cheerful<11>, but what each man feels in his heart I can only guess.③Putting on our shoes