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William: Hello and welcome to People and Places. My name’s William Kremer. Coming
up in the programme today, we’re going to practise listening and [strange
noise]… and we’ll be finding out what that strange noise is.
Now, imagine that you were trapped on a desert island and you had to survive
– that is, you had to carry on living through this dangerous situation. How
would you manage? Now imagine that you could choose one item to take to the
island to help you survive. What would you choose? A fishing rod? Or maybe
a gun? Well, we’re going to hear now from Pen Hadow. Pen is a polar explorer
– he travels to the Arctic Circle to raise money and to do scientific research.
Pen once said that if he could take one thing to help him survive on a desert
island, he would take… a six-inch nail. That’s right, a nail- something that you
would normally bang into wood. Six-inches is about 15 cm. A six-inch nail.
Now listen to this clip from an interview with Pen and try to work out why he
would take a six-inch nail to a desert island!
Pen Hadow: And the reason I chose the nail was that I’m aware of a group of walrus1 hunters
who were trapped on an island in Spitzberg[en] and off, on the edge of the
Arctic Ocean. And they left their ship for the day with a little rucksack on their
backs and the ship got crushed with all the occupants, so there were four of
them left, on this island and they had to survive and they survived for six years
and the key to their survival was a six-inch nail, that they found in a log that
had drifted across the Arctic Ocean from Siberia. And they used that to create
sparks and to create a hammer, from which they then made arrowheads… they 
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then killed a polar bear… and… and in those days people knew how to survive
in the real sense of the word.
William: Well don’t worry if you missed the answer, because I’m going to play that clip
again. But you might have heard that Pen chose a nail in this hypothetical
emergency because of the experience of a group of hunters. Their ship was
crushed, so it was destroyed by being pressed very hard by ice. All the hunters
had to help them survive was a six-inch nail. But how did they use the nail?
Listen again:
Pen Hadow: And the reason I chose the nail was that I’m aware of a group of walrus hunters
who were trapped on an island in Spitzberg[en] and off, on the edge of the
Arctic Ocean. And they left their ship for the day with a little rucksack on their
backs and the ship got crushed with all the occupants, so there were four of
them left, on this island and they had to survive and they survived for six years
and the key to their survival was a six-inch nail, that they found in a log that
had drifted across the Arctic Ocean from Siberia. And they used that to create
sparks and to create a hammer, from which they then made arrowheads… they
then killed a polar bear… and… and in those days people knew how to survive
in the real sense of the word.
William: Pen said that the nail was ‘the key to their survival’ – which means that it was
the only way the hunters managed to survive. They used it to create sparks and
a hammer, and then they made arrowheads – sharp metal objects that they used
to kill a polar bear.
What does the arctic sound like? Is it quiet or noisy? Before we listen to the
next clip from Pen, let me give you a bit of vocabulary. Earlier on, we heard
the word ‘crush’. A crash, or a crashing, is something different – it’s a sudden
loud noise, for example if something breaks or falls to the ground – CRASH! 
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You’re also about to hear this word – grinding. Two objects grind together by
rubbing against each other – to grind. Lastly, you’ll hear the word ‘rending3’. If
you rend2 something, you tear it in two. So, that’s crashing, grinding and
rending.
Pen Hadow: Sometimes you do hear crashings of ice and grindings of ice. Mostly you hear
it at night, because you’re lying down, your ears against the ice… they are the
most extraordinary noises. There are terrific sort of rendings… metallic4
rendings as if someone had got two giant pliers and was just pulling a car roof
apart. You’re lying in bed, at the end of a long day and then suddenly you hear:
[imitates ice rending]
William: Don’t forget that you can download the script for this programme, and find out
more about today’s vocabulary by going to the People and Places website on
BBC Learning English dot com. Goodbye! 

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1 walrus hMSzp     
n.海象
参考例句:
  • He is the queer old duck with the knee-length gaiters and walrus mustache.他穿着高及膝盖的皮护腿,留着海象般的八字胡,真是个古怪的老家伙。
  • He seemed hardly to notice the big walrus.他几乎没有注意到那只大海象。
2 rend 3Blzj     
vt.把…撕开,割裂;把…揪下来,强行夺取
参考例句:
  • Her scrams would rend the heart of any man.她的喊叫声会撕碎任何人的心。
  • Will they rend the child from his mother?他们会不会把这个孩子从他的母亲身边夺走呢?
3 rending 549a55cea46358e7440dbc8d78bde7b6     
v.撕碎( rend的现在分词 );分裂;(因愤怒、痛苦等而)揪扯(衣服或头发等);(声音等)刺破
参考例句:
  • The cries of those imprisoned in the fallen buildings were heart-rending. 被困于倒塌大楼里的人们的哭喊声令人心碎。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • She was rending her hair out in anger. 她气愤得直扯自己的头发。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 metallic LCuxO     
adj.金属的;金属制的;含金属的;产金属的;像金属的
参考例句:
  • A sharp metallic note coming from the outside frightened me.外面传来尖锐铿锵的声音吓了我一跳。
  • He picked up a metallic ring last night.昨夜他捡了一个金属戒指。
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