12.A new collection of photos brings an unsuccessful Antarctic voyage back to life.
Frank Hurley's pictures would be outstanding-undoubtedly first-rate photo-journalism-if they had been made last week.In fact,they were shot from 1914through 1916,most of them after a disastrous shipwreck (海灘),by a cameraman who had no reasonable expectation of survival.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 Ernest Shackleton and a small crew of seamen and scientists,27men 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 1912but had died with his four companions
on the march back.
As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in 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 100miles of the South Pole in 1908,started a business before his 1914voyage 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?D
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?C
A.Frank Hurley
B.Ernest Shackleton
C.Robert Falcon Scott
D.Caroline Alexander
35.What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914voyage?C
A.Artistic creation
B.Scientific research
C.Money making
D.Treasure hunting.
分析 文章講述了Frank的圖片記錄了一次不成功的航;顒樱⒔榻B了與之相關的一些具體內容.
解答 DCC
33.D 細節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章第二段第二句"most of them after a disastrous shipwreck"可知,大部分照片是關于一場災難后的海難.故正確答案為D.
34 C 細節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章第三段第四句"Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912"可知 Captain Scott 是第一個到達南極點的.故正確答案為C.
35.C 細節(jié)題.根據(jù)文章第四段第三句"make money from movie and still photography"可知,Alexander 認為1914年的出航可以通過電影和攝影來賺錢.故正確答案為C.
點評 做閱讀時經(jīng)常犯錯的主要原因是,僅憑讀過文章后殘留在腦海中的一絲印象來勾選答案,這樣便很容易掉入出題人故意設布下的題目陷阱.所謂閱讀理解,對于題目的理解一定要忠實于原文,因此,每一道題都應該與原文作全面的對比與核查,再得出答案.也就是說,閱讀理解的每一道題目,在原文都應該有明確的出處,我們把這一出處叫做原文相關句,(1)排除與原文相關句主題不一致的選項(2)排除與原文相關句態(tài)度相反的選項 (3)排除用于過于極端或負面的選項(4)注意結合文章主旨和主題去排除.