Question

Breaking the Ice
Michael Sharp visits an outdoor pool
It's just before 7 am, and I'm at an outdoor swimming pool in London, where the
temperature of the water is only 11 degrees above freezing! Amazingly, there are already
eight people swimming.
I had intended to discover, by taking a swim myself, why anyone would want to swim in
such cold water. However, in the end, I decided to ask people instead. Peter Smith has
been a swimmer here for three years, coming every morning before work. It's wonderful on
a cold winter moming,' he says. 'I thought it would make me healthier and I haven't been ill
once since I started."
All the swimmers here say the same thing. They all feel fitter. However, not everyone
agrees with them. Some doctors say it helps fight illness, while others say it could be
dangerous, especially for your heart.
I asked Peter what they did on the days when the pool was frozen. That's easy,' he said.
"There's a place in the middle where the ice is thin and easy to break You have to avoid
the sides where the ice is thicker. I did try to swim there once just to see what it was like,
but I found that it was impossible to break through the ice.
I would like to be able to say that I too dived happily into the water and swam a couple of hundred
metres. But the truth is, fearing the worst, I walked very carefully into the pool, stood there almost
in shock and then got out again after 30 seconds before I became a block ofice!
31 What is the writer trying to do in this text?
A explain why some people like swimming in the cold​

Answer 1

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it's trying to explain why there are some people that like to swim even though it's freezing outside