The following year he met John Ridgway and was hired as an instructor at Ridgway's school of adventure in Scotland, where he learnt about Ridgway's cold-water exploits. Greatly interested, Saunders read all he could about North Pole explorers and adventures, the decided that this would be his future.

　　In 2001, after becoming a skillful skier, Saunders started his first long-distance expedition towards the North Pole. It took unbelievable energy. He suffered frostbite, ran into a polar bear and pushed his body to the limit, pulling his supply-loaded sled up and over rocky rice.

　　Saunders has since become the youngest person to ski alone to the North Pole, and he's skied more of the North Pole by himself than any other British man. His old playmates would not believe the change.

　　Next October, Saunders, 27, heads south from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back, a 2900-kilometer journey that has never been completed on skis. 56. What change happened to Saunders after he was 15 years old?  

　　A. He became good at most sports.  

　　B. He began to build up his body.  

　　C. He joined a sports team.     

　　D. He made friends with a runner. 57. The underlined word “exploits” (paragraph 3) is closest in meaning to ______.  

　　A. journeys   B. researches   C. adventures   D. operations. W 58. What does the story mainly tell us abut Saunders?  

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