新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第一册 unit3c_new

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[00:-1.00]Two men walked slowly, one after the other, through the low water of a river
[00:-2.00]It ran cold over their feet.
[00:-3.00]They had blanket packs on their backs; guns, but no bullets;
[00:-4.00]matches, but no food.
[00:-5.00]Suddenly the man behind fell over a stone,
[00:-6.00]hurt his foot badly and called: "Hey, Bill, I've hurt my foot."
[00:-7.00]Bill continued without looking back.
[00:-8.00]The man was alone but not lost in the empty land.
[00:-9.00]He knew the way to camp, and its food and bullets.
[00:10.00]He struggled to his feet and limped on.
[00:11.00]He had not eaten for two days.
[00:12.00]He picked some small round, tasteless fruits.
[00:13.00]They did not satisfy, but he knew he must eat them
[00:14.00]In the evening he built a fire and slept like a dead man.
[00:15.00]When he woke up, he took out a small bag weighing fifteen pounds.
[00:16.00]He wasn't sure he could carry it any longer.
[00:17.00]But he couldn't leave it behind. He had to take it with him.
[00:18.00]He put it back into his pack, rose to his feet and continued.
[00:19.00]His foot hurt, but it was nothing compared with his hunger,
[00:20.00]which made him go on until darkness fell.
[00:21.00]His blanket was wet,  but he knew only he was hungry.
[00:22.00]In his troubled sleep, he dreamed of rich meals.
[00:23.00]He woke up cold, sick and lost;
[00:24.00]the small bag was still with him.
[00:25.00]As he pulled himself along, the bag became heavier and heavier.
[00:26.00]He opened the bag, full of small pieces of gold.
[00:27.00]He left half the gold on a rock.
[00:28.00]Eleven cold, rainy days passed.
[00:29.00]Once he found some animal bones with no meat on them.
[00:30.00]He broke them and ate them like an animal.
[00:31.00]Would he, too, be bones tomorrow? Why not? This was life.
[00:32.00]Only life hurt. There was no hurt in death. To die was to sleep.
[00:33.00]Then why was he not ready to die?
[00:34.00]He, as a man, no longer desired.
[00:35.00]Life in him, unwilling to die, drove him on.
[00:36.00]One morning he woke up beside a river.
[00:37.00]Slowly he followed it with his eyes
[00:38.00]and saw it emptying into a shining sea.
[00:39.00]When he saw a ship, he closed his eyes.
[00:40.00]He knew there could be no ship, no sea, here.
[00:41.00]An imagined picture, he thought. Hearing a noise, he turned around.
[00:42.00]A wolf, old and sick, was coming slowly toward him.
[00:43.00]This was real, he thought. He turned back;
[00:44.00]the sea and the ship were still there. He didn’t understand.
[00:45.00]Had he been walking north, away from the camp, toward the sea?
[00:46.00]He started slowly toward the ship,
[00:47.00]knowing full well the sick wolf was following him.
[00:48.00]In the afternoon, he found the bones of a man.
[00:49.00]Beside the bones was a small bag of gold, like his own.
[00:50.00]Bill had carried his gold to the end;
[00:51.00]he would carry Bill's gold to the ship.
[00:52.00]Ha-ha! He would have the last laugh on Bill.
[00:53.00]His laughing sounded like the low cry of an animal.
[00:54.00]The wolf cried back. The man stopped suddenly and turned away.
[00:55.00]How could he laugh about Bill's bones and take his gold?
[00:56.00]He was very sick, now. He inched about on hands and knees,
[00:57.00]having lost everything — his blanket, his gun, and his gold.
[00:58.00]Only the wolf stayed with him hour after hour.
[00:59.00]At last he could go no further. He fell.
[-1:00.00]The wolf came close to him, but the man was ready.
[-1:-1.00]He got on top of the wolf and held its mouth closed
[-1:-2.00]and bit it with his last strength.
[-1:-3.00]The wolf's blood flowed into his mouth.
[-1:-4.00]He held the wolf with his teeth and killed it;
[-1:-5.00]then he fell on his back and slept.
[-1:-6.00]The men on the ship saw a strange object lying on the beach.
[-1:-7.00]It was moving toward them — perhaps twenty feet an hour.
[-1:-8.00]They went to look and could hardly believe it was a man.
[-1:-9.00]Three weeks later, when he felt better, he told them his story.