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　　(2017·南京模拟)

　　In winter Hammerfest is a thirty-hour ride by bus from Oslo, though why anyone would want to go there in winter is a question worth considering. It is on the edge of the world, the northernmost town in Europe, as far from London as London is from Tunis, a place of dark and cruel winters, where the sun sinks into the Arctic Ocean in November and does not rise again for ten weeks.

　　I wanted to see the Northern Lights. Also, I had longed to experience what life was like in such a remote and forbidding place. Sitting at home in England with a glass of whisky and a book of maps, this had seemed an excellent idea. But now as I picked my way through the grey, late-December slush(融雪)of Oslo I was beginning to have my doubts.

　　Things had not started well. I had overslept at the hotel, missing breakfast, and had to leap into my clothes. I couldn’t find a cab and had to drag my over-weighted bag eight blocks through slush to the central bus station. I had had huge difficulty persuading the staff at the Kreditkassen Bank on Karl Johans Gate to cash sufficient traveller’s cheques to pay the overcharged 1, 200-kroner bus fare—they simply could not understand that the William McGuire Bryson on my passport and the Bill Bryson on my traveller’s cheques were both me-and now here I was arriving at the station two minutes before departure, breathless and steaming, and the girl at the ticket counter was telling me that she had no record of my reservation.

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