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随着我国旅游业的发展，旅游管理硕士的需求和热度也不断增加。旅游管理硕士旨在培养具有责任感和职业精神并且理论和技能并存、有国际化思维的人才，因此希望每一位考生认识到这一点并努力备考。新东方在线编辑为大家提供各种复习资料以及备考指导。下文是和大家分享的2015年旅游管理硕士英语阅读专训，并且附有新的词汇点拨，希望对大家有所帮助。
2015年旅游管理硕士英语阅读专训（四）
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At sixty-five Francis Chichester set out to sail single-handed round the
world. This is the story of that adventure.
Sailing Round the World
Before he sailed round the world single-handed, Francis Chichester had
already surprised his friends several times. He had tried to fly round the world
but failed. That was in 1931.
The years passed. He gave up flying and began sailing. He enjoyed it
greatly. Chichester was already 58 years old when he won the first solo
transatlantic sailing race. His old dream of going round the world came back,
but this time he would sail. His friends and doctors did not think he could do
it, as he had lung cancer. But Chichester was determined to carry out his plan.
In August, 1963, at the age of nearly sixty-five, an age when many men retire,
he began the greatest voyage of his life. Soon, he was away in this new 16-metre
boat, Gipsy Moth.
Chichester followed the route of the great nineteenth century clipper
ships. But the clippers had had plenty of crew. Chicheater did it all by
himself, even after the main steering device had been damaged by gales.
Chichester covered 14, 100 miles before stopping in Sydney, Australia. This was
more than twice the distance anyone had previously sailed alone.
He arrived in Australia on 12 December, just 107 days out from England. He
received a warm welcome from the Australians and from his family who had flown
there to meet him. On shore, Chichester could not walk without help. Everybody
said the same thing: he had done enough; he must not go any further. But he did
not listen.
After resting in Sydney for a few weeks, Chichester set off once more in
spite of his friends' attempts to dissuade him. The second half of his voyage
was by far the more dangerous part, during which he sailed round the treacherous
Cape Horn.
On 29 January he left Australia. The mext night, the blackest he had ever
known, the sea became so rough that the boat almost turned over. Food, clothes,
and broken glass were all mixed together. Fortunately, bed and went to sleep.
When he woke up, the sea had become calm the nearest person he could contact by
radio, unless there was a ship nearby, Wild be on an island 885 miles away.
After succeeding in sailing round Cape Horn, Chichester sent the followiing
radio message to London:" I feel as if I had wakened from a nightmare. Wild
horses could not drag me down to Cape Horn and that sinister Southern Ocean
again."
Juat before 9 o'clock on Sunday evening 28 May, 1967, he aeeived back in
England, where a quarter of a million people were waiting to welcome him. Queeh
Elizabeth II knigthed him with the very sword that Queen Elizabeth I had sailed
round the world for the first time. The whole voyage from England and back had
covered 28, 500 miles. It had taken him nine months , of which the sailing time
was 226 days. He had done what he wanted to accomplish.
Like many other adventurers, Chichester had experienced fear and conquered
it. In doing so, he had undoubtedly learnt something about himself. Moreover, in
the modern age when human beings depend so much on machines, he had given men
throughout the world new pride
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