全国通用高考英语二轮复习总复习：紧抓高考考点 透视命题动向 第四局部 阅读理解 命题角度 3 推理判断 (一)(经典例题精选) Short and shy, Ben Saunders was the last kid in his class picked for any sports team. "Football, tennis Cricket- anything with a round ball, I was useless, "he says now with a laugh. But back then he was the object of jokes in school gym classes in England's rural Devonshire. It was a mountain bike he received for his 15th birthday that changed him. At first the teen went biking alone in a nearby forest. Then he began to cycle along with a runner friend. Gradually, Saunders set his mind building up his body, increasing his speed, strength and endurance. At age 18, he ran his first marathon. The following year, he met John Ridgway, who became famous in the 1960s for rowing an open boat across the Atlan- tic Ocean. Saunders was hired as an instructor at Ridgway' s school of Adventure in Scotland, where he learned about the older man's cold-water exploits(成就). Intrigued, Saunders read all he could about Arctic explorers and North People ex- peditions, then decided that this would be his future. Journeys to the People aren't the usual holidays for British country boys, and many people dismissed his dream as fantasy. "John Ridgway was one of the few who didn' t say, ' You are completely crazy, ' "Saunders says. In , after becoming a skilled skier, Saunders star- ted his first long distance expedition toward the North Pole. He suffered frostbite, had a closer encounter(遭遇) with a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit. Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he' s skied more of the Arctic by himself than any other Briton. ...
