2016年全国卷2

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A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.

Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding - undoubtedly first-rate photo-joumalism if they had been made last week.In fact,they were shot from 1914 through 1916,most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海难), by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survial. Many of the images were stored in an ice chest, under freezing water, in the damaged wooden ship.

The ship was the Endurance,a small,tight,Norwegian-built three-master that was intended to take Sir Emest Shackleton and a smakk crew of seamen and scientists,27 men in all,to the southernmost shore of antarctica's Weddell Sea.From that point Shackleton wanted to force a passage by dog sled (雪橇) across the continent. The journey was intended to achieve more than what Captain Robert Falcon Scott had done. Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912 but had died with his four companions on the march back.

As writer Caroline Alexander makes clearin her forceful and well-researched story

The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort. Scott's last journey, completed as he lay in a tent dying of cold and hunger, caught the world's imagination, and a film made in his honor drew crowds. Shackleton, a onetime British merchant-navy officer who had got to within 100 miles of the Soum Foie in 1908, started a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography. frank Hurley,a confident and gifted Australian photographer who knew the Antarctic, was hired to make the images, most of which have never before been published.

33. What do we know about the photos taken by Hurley?

A.They were made last week.

B. They showed undersea sceneries.

C. They were found by a cameraman.

D. They recorded a disastrous adventure.

34. Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?

A. Frank Hurley. B.Erenst Shackleton

C. Robert Falcon Scott. D. Caroline Alexander.

35.What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?

A Artistic creation

B scientific research

C Money making

D Treasure hunting

答案解析：

33. D 根据第二段中的描述，Hurley的照片是在1914年至1916年间拍摄的，大多数是在一次灾难性的船难之后，这些照片记录了那次探险的经历。因此，选项D正确，这些照片记录了一次灾难性的冒险。

34. C 根据第四段中的描述，Captain Robert Falcon Scott在1912年初到达了南极点，但他在返回途中与他的四名同伴一起去世。因此，选项C正确，Robert Falcon Scott是第一个到达南极点的人。

35. C 根据最后一段中的描述，Shackleton在1914年的航行之前开始了一项业务，目的是通过电影和静态摄影赚钱。这表明Alexander认为这次航行的目的是为了赚钱。因此，选项C正确。