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Years ago, I did across the North Pole. I remember getting out of the water and my hands
feeling so painful and my fingers were literally the size of sausages because you know, we're made partially of water—when water freezes it expands, and so the cells in my fingers had frozen, expanded and burst. You can imagine the most immediate thought I might had when I came out of that water.
Anyway, last years, I heard about the Himalayas and the melting of the glaciers because of climate change. I firmly believe what we're seeing in the Himalaya is the nest great, big battleground on this earth. Nearly two billion people—one in three people on this earth—rely on the water from the Himalayas. With a population increasing as quickly as it is, and with the water supply from these glaciers decreasing dramatically, I think we have a real risk of instability.
So I decided to walk up to Mt. Everest, the highest mountain on this earth, and do a
symbolic swim underneath the summit of Mt. Everest.
We walked all the way up the pathway. Then we got up to the small lake underneath the summit of Mt. Everest, and I prepared myself the same way as I've always prepared myself, for this swim which would be so difficult. I put on my ipod, listened to some music, got myself
as aggressive as possible—but controlled aggression—and then I threw myself into that water.
I swam as quickly as I could for the first hundred meters. Then I realized very, very quickly, I had a huge problem on my hands. I could barely breathe. I was gasping for air. I then began to choke, and it quickly led to me vomiting in the water. It all happened so quickly: I don't know how. But I went underwater. Luckily, the water was quite shallow, and I was able to push myself off the bottom of the lake and get up and then take another gasp of air. I've heard it said that drowning is the most peaceful death you can have. I have never, ever heard such nonsense. It is the most frightening and panicky feeling you can have.
In the camp, we sat down, and did a debrief about what had gone wrong there on Mt. Everest. My team just gave it to me straight."Lewis, you need to have a radical tactical shift if want to make it. Every single thing you've learned in the past 23 years of swimming, you forget. Every single thing you learned when you were serving in the British army, about need and aggression, you put that to one side. Take some time to rest and think about things. We want you to walk up the mountain in two days'time. Instead of swimming fast, swim as
slowly as possible. Instead of swimming crawl, swim breaststroke. Remember, never ever
swim with aggression. This is the time to swim with real humility."
So we walked back up to the mountain two days later I stood there on the edge of the lake, looked up at Mt. Everest—she's one of the most beautiful mountains on the earth—and
said to myself, just do this slowly.
I can't begin to tell you how good I felt when I came to the other side. But I learned two very, very important lessons there on Mt. Everest, and I thank my team who taught me this. The first, he is that just because something has worked in the past so well, it doesn't mean it's going to rock in the future. Taking that into the world of climate change—which is, frankly, the Mt. Everest of all problems—just because we've lived the way we have lived for so long, just because have consumed the way we have for so long and populated the earth the way we for so it doesn't mean that we can carry on the way we are carrying on. And lesson, the radical, tactical shift. I've come here to ask you today: what you take in your relationship to the environment, which will ensure that children live in a safe world and a secure world, and a secure world, and most importantly, in a most immediate thought after he swam across the North Pole?
60.What might be the author's most immediate thought after he swam?
A. Unexpected relief form the pressure.
B.Quitting cold-water swim from then on.
C.A sense of honor and pride from the bottom of hid heart.
D. Swimming in the North pole again with careful preparations.
61.What's the cause of the instability mentioned in the second paragraph?
A. The climate change. B.The natural disaster.
C. The gradual melting of the glacier. D.The human population.
62. What's the author's intention to swim underneath the summit of Mt. Everest?
A.To challenge against nature.
B.To challenge the limit of human power.
C. To increase his own popularity and influence.
D. To draw the world's attention to climate change.
63. What does the author think causes his first-time failure underneath Mt.Everest?
A. Inadequate training and preparations. B. Too fast a speed and pace.
C. Blind confidence in past experience. D.Lack of for nature.
64.What was the suggestion of the team on his second attempt?
A.Swimming breaststroke with aggression as fast as possible.
B.Swimming crawl with aggression as fast as possible.
C. Swimming crawl with humility as slowly as possible.
D.Swimming breaststroke with humility as slowly as possible.
65. According to the passage, the speaker may most probably agree that
A. man proposes, God dispose
B.where there's a will, there's a way
C. think twice before carrying on old tactic with the nature
D. joint efforts of all human make light work protecting the environment
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