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Questions are based on the following passage.Antarctica's vast, frozen, barren landscape has beckoned scholars and(1)alikefor more than a century. Indeed, the history of(2) on the continent is as much abouthunger as heroism, as Jason Anthony explores in his book. "Hunger," Anthony writes, "wasthe one spice every expedition carried."
Think those aboard that Russian research vessel and Chinese icebreaker that justspent several days stuck in the Antarctic ice had it rough? The(3 )pales compared tothe legend of what British explorer Ernest Shackleton went through.
In 1914, on his way to try to cross the continent (he never made it), Shackleton'sship, the Endurance, got trapped by ice--then crushed--in the Weddell Sea. So there hewas,1,000 miles from the(4) humans, with no way to call for help,(5) on the icewith his 28-man crew for about a year. It was nearly another year before all were rescued.Frank Hurley, the expedition's photo grapher, wrote of men "crazed by their privations ( 困苦 ) ." Their(6)and sleeping hours filled with dreams of food(7)dumplingsand other carbohydrates. In the meantime, they( 8) on tinned goods they'd broughtwith them and plenty of hoosh—— "the bleak Antarctic soup," as Anthony calls it, "of meatand snow".
The meat in question was often seal or penguin--thousands of the animals gavetheir lives to feed the ambitions of those early continental explorers. And not all weregorged and (9) without qualms ( 良心谴责) . Carl Skottsberg, a botanist on an early1900s Swedish expedition that(10) ransacked ( 洗劫) the newly laid eggs of Adeliepenguins, seemed to be warding off critics when he wrote: "How many of my readersknow what it means to lie in cold, and darkness, and hunger, week after week?"
A.adventurers
B.civilized
C.dying
D.especially
E.Exploration
F.hungrily
G.Murdered
H.Nearest
I.Ordeal
J.poverty
K.Slaughtered
L.Stranded
M.Survived
N.virttually
O.waking
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