Perce Blackborow _______ _______ _______(加入远征队) with Sir Ernest Shackleton to Antarctica on the ship Endurance in 1914. Shackleton was one of the most famous explorers _______ _______ _______(在他那个时代) and it _______ _______ ___ ______ _______ _______ _______(被认为是一种莫大的荣誉) part of his expeditions. Below are some of Blackborow's diary entries.
31 Oct,1914
Well, _______ _______ _______ _______(事情就这么碰巧发生了) one morning I bought a newspaper and read the advertisement about the Antarctic expedition.
An expedition to the South Pole with the great Sir Ernest Shackleton-this is the adventure that I have been dreaming of. And I _______ _______ _______(做好准备) it. _______the age of 19, I am _______(健康的) and _______ _______ _______(充满活力). However, when I applied ____________(join) the expedition, Shackleton _______ _______ _______(拒绝了我) because he thought I was too young and wasn't _______(有资格的). But I _______ _______ _______ _______(如此热衷于) the idea of going along with them that I secretly_______ _______(上船) his ship, the Endurance, and _______(hide) in a small _______(壁橱). _________ (unfortunate), three days after we _______ _______(出发) I was discovered. Shackleton did not want to turn back so he _______ _______ _______ _______(提供给我一份工作), but only after he promised me, \"If anyone has to be eaten, then you will be the first!\" He _______(分配、安排) me to be a steward, and I now _______ _______(提供餐食) for twenty-eight men, three times a day.
How everyone will _______(羡慕、嫉妒) me when I come back and tell them about the amazing places I have been to!
21.Nov,1915
The journey has not been easy. Endurance became _______ _______(困于、陷于) the ice as we __________(靠近) Antarctica. The ice _______(freeze) around us and we were _______ _______ _______(完全地、彻彻底底地) stuck! We saw the ship get _______(crush) by the ice. And when the ship _______(sink), our hearts _______(sink) with it.
Before we _______(抛弃) the ship, Shackleton calmly called us together and told us to rescue
our most _______ _______(基本用品)---the small boats, our food, the cook stove, candles, clothes, and blankets. This was no time to panic. We were not allowed __________(take) most of our _______ _______(个人物品), and Shackleton himself threw away all his gold. But to our surprise, he allowed Hussey to _______(保留) his banjo, Hussey often plays it to _______ _______ _______ _______(使我们精神振奋).
We are now camped on the ice (翻译：________________________) and we have been managing __________(survive), but spring is coming, and the ice will soon begin to melt.
20 May,1916
We have been struggling for days, but things on Elephant Island are _______ _______ _______ _______ _______(每况愈下). We are now crowded together under one of our boats on the rocky shore of this _______(令人痛苦的) place. Soon after we arrived, Shackleton left us to find help on South Georgia lsland, 1320 kilometres away---the voyage was too dangerous and difficult for all of us to _______ _______(成功) in our small boats. If Shackleton fails, will we have any hope of rescue? No. No _______(海军) in the world ever stops at Elephant Island, and no one else knows that we are here.
_______ _______ _______(我感到情绪低落). It's cold and windy. The island has no plants. Sometimes we are able to catch a seal or a penguin to eat. Otherwise (翻译：___________________), there is no food. I try to _______ _______(想起) happier things: _______(不错的) food , warm and dry clothes , a cosy bedroom (翻译:______________________), sunny days ,and my mother's face ... However, these happy memories are soon interrupted by______ ______ _______ _____ ____ _______(一阵冷空气).
I shouted,\"Shut the door!\"
\"_______ _______(坚持住) now, Perce. Don't you go turning into another Tom,\" came the reply. \"We've caught another penguin, so it's penguin soup tonight!\"
Bless Frank Wild, the kindest man there is after our leader, Ernest Shackleton. How could I become as _______(自私的) and__________(坏脾气的) as Thomas Orde-Lees!
Without Frank and Ernest, we'd all be dead by now. Their _______ _______(真诚的关心) for others, their _______________(毅力), and their resolve fill me with hope.
Perhaps there is a chance we will return home, after all.
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