C. will have developed D. developed

13. -I'm moving in a few days and I wonder if you could help.

- . Just let me know when and I'll be there.

A. You bet B. It depends C. Forget it D. No kidding

14. that's important is that you are doing your best and moving in the right direction.

A. One B. All C. Everything D. Anything

15. It's a pity that we can't arrange for our agenda; otherwise we far more freedom during the whole journey.

A. enjoyed B. had enjoyed C. would have enjoyed D. would enjoy

第二节 完形填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 30 分）

阅读下面短文，从 16-35 各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

I grew up on stories about Ernest Shackleton and all the great polar explorers. I had a really

_16_ mental picture of what the environment they _17_ might be like. Those tales of exploration were the reason why I got into travel _18_ in the first place.

I had wanted to go to Spitsbergen for years. I was actually 19 on a trip with my wife,

but we had to cancel - for the _20_ possible reason that she fell pregnant with our first child. A couple of years later, I got the _21_ to shoot（拍摄）a story on the Noorderlich, a ship

that gets _22_ into the ice every year - just as the boats of the old explorers did when they

_23_ in the Arctic. I thought the experience would be _24_ because I love riding snowmobiles and dog sleds but it didn't quite turn out well. It was an eight-hour snowmobile journey from the capital Longyearbyen to the _25_ . We rode through snowstorms and it was one of the 26 things I've ever done. It was really quite _27_ and we were _28_ about on ice during the last part of the journey. I began to think: "This had better be _29_ it."

And then I saw the ship, lit by the moonlight. It looked so strange and frightening, 30 on its own in the middle of nowhere. I almost didn't want to get close to it because it was so