20．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 （海難），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 作者通過這篇文章主要向我們描述了Frank的圖片記錄了一次不成功的航�；顒�，文章講述的是與之相關(guān)的具體內(nèi)容．
解答 33．D．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第二段：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；可知這張圖片記錄了一次海難；故選D．
34．C．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章第三段：Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912but had died with his four companions on the march back隊長史葛已到達(dá)南極點1912但是早已經(jīng)死了他的四個伙伴在前進(jìn)路上；可知是Robert Falcon Scott先到達(dá)南極；故選C．
35．C．細(xì)節(jié)理解題．根據(jù)文章倒數(shù)第二句"…start a business before his 1914 voyage to make money from movie and still photography"可知Alexander認(rèn)為他的這次航行就是為了掙錢．故C項正確．
點評 在閱讀時要抓住文章的主題和細(xì)節(jié)，分析文章結(jié)構(gòu)，根據(jù)上下文內(nèi)在聯(lián)系，挖掘文章的深層含義，對于暗含在文章中的人物的行為動機(jī)，事件中的因果關(guān)系及作者未言明的傾向、意圖、態(tài)度、觀點等要進(jìn)行合乎邏輯的判斷、推理、分析，進(jìn)一步增強(qiáng)理解能力，抓住材料實質(zhì)性的東西．
