自考英语综合一上册 lesson 7

　　[00:00.00]Text  Love of Life

[00:05.69]Two men walked slowly,one after the other,through the shallow 1 water of a stream

[00:13.24]All they could see were stones and earth.

[00:18.31]The stream ran cold over their feet.

[00:23.28]They had blanket packs on their backs.

[00:27.53]They had guns,but no bullets 2;matches,but no food.

[00:33.88]Suddenly the man who followed fell over a stone.

[00:40.05]He hurt his foot badly and called:"Hey,Bill,I've hurt my foot."

[00:47.49]Bill continued straight on without looking back.

[00:52.77]The man was alone in the empty land,but he was not lost.

[00:59.82]He knew the way to their camp,where he would find food and bullets.

[01:06.27]He struggled to his feet and limped 3 on.

[01:10.84]Bill would be waiting for him there,

[01:15.10]and together they would go south to the Hudson Bay 4 Company.

[01:20.95]He had not eaten for two days.

[01:25.81]Often he stopped to pick some small beries and put them into his mouth.

[01:32.66]The berries 5 were tasteless,and did not satisfy 6,

[01:38.30]but he knew he must eat them.

[01:42.14]In the evening he built a fire and slept like a dead man.

[01:48.30]When he woke up,the man took out a small sack 7.

[01:53.45]It weighed fifteen pounds.

[01:57.71]He's wasn't sure if he could carry it any longer.But he couldn't leave it behind.

[02:04.19]He had to take it with him.

[02:07.95]He put it back into his pack,rose to his feet and staggered 8 on.

[02:14.79]His foot hurt,but it was nothing compared with his hunger,

[02:20.85]which made him go on until darkness fell.

[02:25.89]His blanket was wet,but he knew only that he was hungry.

[02:32.06]Through his restless 9 sleep he dreamed of banquets 10 and of food.

[02:38.90]The man woke up cold and sick,and found himself lost.

[02:45.56]But the small sack was still with him.

[02:50.71]As he dragged himself along,the sack became heavier and heavier.

[02:57.27]The man opened the sack,which was full of small pieces of gold.

[03:04.11]He left half the gold on a rock.

[03:09.07]Eleven days passed,days of rain and cold.

[03:15.74]One day he found the bones of a deer.

[03:20.59]There was no meat on them.

[03:24.12]The man broke the bones and he sucked 11 and chewed 12 on them like an animal.

[03:31.17]Would be,too,be bones tomorrow? And why not?This was life.Only life hurt.

[03:41.44]There was no hurt in death.

[03:45.59]To die was to sleep.Then why was he not ready to die?

[03:52.86]He,as a man,no longer stove.

[03:57.90]It was the life in him,unwilling to die,that drove 13 him on.

[04:05.26]One morning he woke up beside a river.

[04:09.70]Slowly he followed it with his with his eyes and

[04:13.96]saw it emptying into a shining sea.

[04:18.93]When he saw a ship on the sea,he closed his eyes.

[04:24.88]He knew there could be no ship,no sea,in this land.

[04:31.65]A vision,he told himself.

[04:35.91]He heard a noise behind him,and turned around.

[04:40.58]A wolf,old and sick,was coming slowly toward 14 him.

[04:47.56]The man turned back,but the sea and the ship were still there.

[04:54.61]He didn't understand.

[04:58.68]Had he been walking north,away from the camp,toward the sea?

[05:04.93]He stood up and started slowly toward the ship,

[05:10.39]knowing full well the sick wolf was following him.

[05:16.03]In the afternoon,he found some bones of a man.

[05:21.88]Beside the bones was a small sack of gold,like his own.

[05:28.83]So Bill had carried his gold to the end.

[05:34.11]He would carry Bill's gold to the ship.

[05:39.25]Ha--Ha!He would have the last laugh on Bill.

[05:46.02]His laughing sounded like the low cry of an animal.

[05:52.65]The wolf cried back.The man stopped suddenly and turned away.

[05:59.60]How could he laugh about Bill's bones and take his gold?

[06:06.45]The man was very sick,now.He crawled 15 about,on hands and knees.

[06:14.18]He had lost everything--his blanket,his gun,and his gold.

[06:21.75]Only the wolf stayed with him hour after hour.

[06:27.32]At last he could go on no further.He fell.

[06:32.28]The wolf came close to him,but the man was ready.

[06:37.84]He got on top of the wolf and held its mouth closed.

　　[06:43.17]The he bit it with his last strength.

[06:48.63]The wolf's blood streamed into his mouth.

[06:53.91]Only love of life gave him enough strength.

[06:59.37]He held the wolf with his teeth and killed it,

[07:04.54]then he fell on his back and slept.

[07:09.27]The men on the ship saw a strange object lying on the beach.

[07:15.51]It was moving toward them--perhaps twenty feet an hour.

[07:22.17]The men went over to look and could hardly believe it was a man.

[07:30.04]Three weeks later,when the man felt better,he told them his story.

[07:37.48]But there was one strange thing

[07:42.05]--he seemed to be afraid that there wasn't enough food on the ship.

[07:48.90]The men also noticed that he was getting fat.

[07:53.65]They gave him less food,but still he grew fatter with each day.

[08:00.91]Then one day they saw him put a lot of bread under his shirt.

[08:07.68]They examined his bed and found food under his blanket.

[08:14.05]Then men understood.He would recover from it,they said.