Question

阅读短文，为每段话选择中心意思

词汇预约：sledges(雪橇)；expedition(远征)；navy(海军)；explorer(探索者，考察者，探险者)；navigate(航行于)；glaciers(冰山)；cracks(裂缝)；survived(幸免于)

选择阅览

A．In October(Antarctica’s spring), they set out, with 52 well-trained dogs to pull their sledges．

B．He intended to go to the north pole, but he heard that Robert Peary had already reached it．

C．Amundsen made a three-year expedition in the Arctic beginning in 1903．

D．Amundsen was once a navy man．

E．Amundsen died in the Arctic, 17 years later．

F．The first person to reach the south pole was Ronald Amundsen, A Norwegian explorer．

正文阅读·挪威探险家阿默森

1．________

Amundsen was born in Barge, near Oslo, Norway．He attended the University of Christiania and then joined the Norwegian navy．

2．________

He was the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a northern water route from the Atlantic to the Pacific．But Amundsen’s greatest voyage began in 1910, at the other end of the Earth．

3．________

So instead Amundsen headed to the South Pole in his ship．He learned the a British expedition, led by Robert F．Scott, was also on its way there．Amundsen reached Antarctica in January, 1911．He and his men had to wait out the bitter cold, windy winter on the edge of the ice before they could head for the South Pole．

4．________

On the way to the Pole, they climbed glaciers, went around huge cracks in the ice, and survived freezing blizzards．Finally, on December 13th, 1911, Amundsen placed the Norwegian flag at the South Pole．Scott and his men found the flag there when they reached the Pole a month after Amundsen’s party．

5．________

He disappeared while making an air search for another explorer, Umber, to Nobile．

Answer 1

答案：
解析：

1．F　本段主要介绍探险家阿默森的探险经历。 　　2．C　根据下文的年代可知，应选C项“…in 1903”。 　　3．B　他改变主意去南极，是因为Robert Peary已经到达过北极。 　　4．A　本段紧接上文。 　　5．E　17年后阿默森在北极地区去世。