题目内容：

I grew up on stories about Ernest Shackleton and all the great polar explorers. I had a really ________ mental picture of what the environment they ________ might be like. Those tales of exploration were the reason why I got into travel ________ in the first place.

I had wanted to go to Spitsbergen for years. I was actually ______on a trip with my wife, but we had to cancel — for the ________ possible reason that she fell pregnant with our first child. A couple of years later, I got the ________ to shoot(拍摄)a story on the Noorderlich, a ship that gets ________ into the ice every year — just as the boats of the old explorers did when they ________ in the Arctic. I thought the experience would be _______ 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 _______ . We rode through snowstorms and it was one of the ____things I’ve ever done. It was really quite _______ and we were ______ about on ice during the last part of the journey. I began to think: “This had better be _______ it.”

And then I saw the ship, lit by the moonlight. It looked so strange and frightening, ____ on its own in the middle of nowhere. I almost didn’t want to get close to it because it was so perfect in its _______. It was exactly how I had _____ it to be. _______experiences are rarely like that---there’s usually some disappointment ____ somewhere. When you have held a mental picture of a place since your childhood and you see that it exists in ______, it really is a dream that comes true.

1.A. certain    B. new    C. strong    D. strange

2.A. discovered    B. changed    C. created    D. experienced

3.A. photography    B. research    C. habit    D. industry

4.A. caught    B. booked    C. invited    D. sent

5.A. least    B. nicest    C. helpless    D. troublesome

6.A. demand    B. right    C. information    D. opportunity

7.A. frozen    B. decorated    C. broken    D. prepared

8.A. summered    B. visited    C. wintered    D. arrived

9.A. easy    B. great    C. unique    D. regrettable

10.A. ship    B. village    C. island    D. house

11.A. happiest    B. simplest    C. hardest    D. most important

12.A. dark    B. interesting    C. exciting    D. bright

13.A. looking    B. talking    C. standing    D. sliding

14.A. for    B. worth    C. about    D. with

15.A. working    B. going    C. waiting    D. sitting

16.A. position    B. environment    C. shape    D. way

17.A. promised    B. arranged    C. imagined    D. refused

18.A. Travel    B. Shopping    C. Reading    D. Working

19.A. expected    B. surrounded    C. unrelated    D. involved

20.A. tales    B. memory    C. reality    D. movies