[00:00.00]Unit 28
[00:04.81]Task:who wins the award?
[00:09.35]A British couple have made history
[00:11.22]by becoming the first husband-and-wife team
[00:13.58]to walk to both the North and the South Poles.
[00:16.87]After a 56-day trip across the frozen
[00:19.37]Antarctic Ocean,Mike Thornwill,38,
[00:22.66]and his wife Fiona,33,
[00:25.08]have become the first couple
[00:26.20]to reach the South Pole.
[00:28.33]During the trip they endured tempertures
[00:30.37]as low as -50℃.
[00:33.40]The previous years,they spent 61 days
[00:36.12]walking to the North Pole.
[00:38.53]Mr thornwill spoke to the BBC
[00:40.78]by satellite phone:"It's absolutely awesome…"
[00:51.99]The expedition was organized to raise money
[00:54.23]for cancer research and children's charities.
[01:01.42]Child psychologist Camila Batmanghelidjh
[01:04.48]whose family came to Britain from
[01:06.19]around in 1970s had had a dream
[01:09.16]ever since her own difficult childhood,
[01:11.97]to open a drop-in centre where under-privileged
[01:15.02]children from troubled homes could take refuge
[01:17.63]when they were not at school.
[01:20.30]She finally found a place in South London
[01:22.55]that she has been looking for
[01:23.73]to make her dream reality but was soon warned
[01:26.97]that the centre would be overrun
[01:28.71]by local teenage gangs.
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