首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
What first inspired Martin Middleton’s interest in travelling?
What first inspired Martin Middleton’s interest in travelling?
admin
2018-10-19
20
问题
What first inspired Martin Middleton’s interest in travelling?
W: Today’s guest needs no introduction. He is a man who has given us hours of interest and entertainment over the years, with his weekly series of wildlife programmes. He is, of course, Martin Middleton. Martin, you’ve been to the four corners of the Earth in search of material. Where did this love of adventure come from?
M: I don’t really know. I didn’t travel much as a child, but I remember reading about the East and being fascinated by it. Then, when I was about 12, I met someone who’d been to Singapore and to me that seemed incredible. Of course, when I started in television, back in the early 1960s, you didn’t travel to make a wildlife program—you went along and filmed at the local zoo. So, when I said I’d like to go and film in Africa, the Head of Programmes just laughed at me.
W: And, did you go to Africa?
M: On that occasion, no! But I eventually got them to allow me to go to Borneo in 1962. There was just me and a cameraman. We went off for four months, filming wherever we saw something interesting. We bought a canoe, paddled up river for ten days and ended up in a traditional long-house. Nowadays, of course, it’s all quite different.
W: Different? In what way?
M: We do months of preparation before we set off, so when we start filming, we know exactly what scenes we want to get. I mean, you don’t get up in the morning and say to your team, ’ What shall we do this morning? ’ You have to know exactly what each scene is going to show—to work to a strict plan.
W: What I wonder is where somebody like you, who travels to all these exotic places as part of their work, goes on holiday?
M:(laughs)I’m not very good at lying on a beach—that’s for sure. I wouldn’t go to a place just to sit around. It’s nice to have an objective when you’re traveling—to have something you want to film. I’ve just come back from the Dominican Republic, and we were put up for the first night in a big hotel. The place was absolutely full of people, just lying there sunbathing. They seemed quite happy to spend the whole day stretched out around the pool. They never seemed to want to go and explore the amazing things there were to see outside the hotel. For me, that would be a very boring way to spend a holiday.
W: Your programmes, though, must have inspired a lot of people to take their holidays in remote and little known places.
M: You are probably right, but, well, I have mixed feelings about all this. I go back to the places where, years ago, I was the only European, and now there are cruise ships coming three times a day. So, you worry that in ten years or so, every remote place on the planet will be swallowed up, because everyone will be visiting it. But, on the other hand, I am in favour of tourism that is done in a way that protects the environment. You can see a good example of this in the Galapagos Islands, where the tourism is carefully managed. That’s very successful, and could be a model for the future.
选项
A、Living abroad in the 1960s.
B、Something he read as a child
C、A television film about Africa.
D、The story he heard from a friend.
答案
B
解析
Martin说“…as a child,but I remember reading about the East and being fascinated by it.”可知他儿时读的东西激励了他想去旅行,故选B。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/eUlMFFFM
本试题收录于:
A类竞赛(研究生)题库大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)分类
0
A类竞赛(研究生)
大学生英语竞赛(NECCS)
相关试题推荐
Thereisonepassageinthissectionwith10questions.ReadthepassagequicklyandanswerthequestionsontheAnswerSheet.
Readthefollowingpoemandwriteanessayinwhichyoudiscussitsmoralandexpressyourpersonalviews.Ienvynotinan
Whatisthefollowingwordwhenitisunscrambled?HCPRAATEU
Unravelthelogicbehindthisstarandfindthemissingletter.
Inthissection,youwillhearashortpassage.Thereare10missingwordsorphrases.Fillintheblankswiththeexactwordso
Collisionbetweenanaircraftandoneormorebirdsistermedabird-strike.Pilotssometimesrecordabirdstrikewhileatcruis
Recently,ImadeatriparoundEuropewithmyfamilyandittookbreathawaytoseehowmucheverythinghaschanged.Iwas【M1】_
TheHistoryofGlobalizationGlobalizationiscommonlybelievednottohavebeenaconcernin【D1】______.In1841,awriterfrom【
A、At7a.m.B、At7p.m.C、At3a.m.D、At3p.m.D题目问,女士何时到达威灵顿?男士回答下午3:00。故选D。
WhichofthefollowingisNOTmentionedasoneofthepenalties?
随机试题
下列成语对应的历史人物有误的是()。
多囊肾有关说法正确的是
目前临床上最常用的印模材料是
根据我国现行规定,下列关于建设项目分类原则的表述中正确的是()。
电站锅炉钢架的立柱通常采用宽翼缘()。
下列项目目标控制工作中,属于主动控制的是()。[2010年真题]
依据规范规定,一般民用建筑楼梯的梯段净高不宜小于()米。
已抵扣进项税额的无形资产,发生规定不得从销项税额中抵扣情形的,按照下列公式计算不得抵扣的进项税额:不得抵扣的进项税额=无形资产净值÷(1+适用税率)×适用税率。()
学前儿童血液量与体重的比例()成人。
Youuseitforeatingandspeaking.Youseepeopleandthingswiththem.
最新回复
(
0
)