新概念英语第二册43课..docVIP

学乐教育2014年春七年级英语一对二讲义 Lesson?43 Over the South Pole How was the plane able to clear the mountains? 【Text】? In?1929,?three?years?after?his?flight?over?the?North?Pole,?the?American?explorer,?R.E.?Byrd,?successfully?flew?over?the?South?Pole?for?the?first?time.?Though,?at?first,?Byrd?and?his?men?were?able?to?take?a?great?many?photographs?of?the?mountains?that?lay?below,?they?soon?ran?into?serious?trouble.?At?one?point,?it?seemed? certain?that?their?plane?would?crash.?It?could?only?get?over?the?mountains?if?it?rose?to?10,000?feet.?Byrd?at? once?ordered?his?men?to?throw?out?two?heavy?food?sacks.?The?