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6. When the rescue team the note, they discovered that all 33 of the miners
were alive.

7. When the rescue team the escape route, they began to lift the miners out
of the mine.

8. Millions of people all over the world on TV when the rescue workers
lifted the last man out of the mine.

9 LISTEN.

A Listen to the conversation about Ernest Shackleton. Then answer the questions.
CD1-12
1. How many men were with Shackleton on the ship?

2. In what year did Shackleton’s ship become trapped in the ice?

3. Did the men all survive?

B Complete each sentence with the simple past or the past progressive form of the verb(s) in
CD1-12
parentheses. Then listen again and check your answers.

1. The Endurance was approaching (approach) Antarctica in January 1915 when it
(become) locked in the ice.

2. When the ocean water (freeze), ice
(surround) the ship.

3. Shackleton and his men (stay) on the Endurance at first, and
then they (make) a camp on the ice.

4. They (wait) for nine months, but the ice

(not release) the ship.

The crew of the Endurance plays soccer to
pass the time. Their ship is in the background.

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