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 1914 through 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,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 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 100 miles of the South Pole 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.
【語篇導(dǎo)讀】一組拍攝于1914年至1916年間的照片生動再現(xiàn)了當(dāng)年探險家沙克爾頓失敗的南極之旅。沙克爾頓立志超越此前已經(jīng)成功抵達(dá)南極的斯科特,但卻以失敗告終。
1.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.
答案 D
解析 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第二段第二句“In fact,they were shot from 1914 through 1916,most of them after a disastrous shipwreck(海難)...”可知多數(shù)照片是他們遇上海難后所拍攝的。故D項正確。
2.Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?
A.Frank Hurley.
B.Ernest Shackleton.
C.Robert Falcon Scott.
D.Caroline Alexander.
答案 C
解析 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)文章第三段最后一句“Captain Scott had reached the South Pole early in 1912...”可知,C項正確。
3.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 C
解析 推理判斷題。根據(jù)文章最后一段中的“...a thoroughly commercial effort...”和“...to make money from movie and still photography.”可知,1914年的南極之行是純粹的商業(yè)行為,其目的是為了掙錢,故選擇C項。
【長難句分析】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.
Frank Hurley是一位自信而有天賦的澳大利亞攝影師,他熟悉南極,被雇來拍攝這些照片,其中大部分以前從未出版過。
本句是一個復(fù)合句。who引導(dǎo)的是限制性定語從句,修飾photographer,most of which是非限制性定語從句,修飾the images。
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