Question

Captain R．F．Scott, the famous Antarctic explorer, made two expeditions to the Antarctic.

His first expedition, in the ship Discovery, took place between 1901 and 1904 and was half funded by the government．On this trip, Scott and his party anchored Discovery in McMurdo Sound．Ross Island where they built a simple room．During the winter they conducted astronomical observations．In June the sun cannot be seen from within the Antarctic Circle and it is dark 24 hours day．In the spring, the weather improved and Scott, Dr Wilson and Ernest Shackleton set off．towards, the South Pole．They had some sledge （雪橇） dogs but didn't really know how to "use them, so they largely pulled the sledges themselves, Scott traveled slightly further, much further than anyone before but it was a terrible journey．

In 1910, he sailed on another scientific voyage to the Antarctic, this time in the Terra Nova, originally a whaler （捕鯨艦）．This second expedition had less government support and many schools made collections for the expedition．While Scott was sailing south on his second expedition, he heard the news that the Norwegian, Roald Amundsen （1872-1928）, was going to Antarctica and was likely to try to reach the South Pole first．Although Amundsen was an experienced Arctic explorer, Scott was determined to get there first．He headed to the south early in 191l, and set out towards the Pole on November I from Ross Island during the second summer there．However, on January 18, 1912 when they arrived, they found Amundsen and his four Norwegian companions had got there just over a month before them．Scott's men had been beaten．On the way back, they encountered disaster and all of them died．Near the end of the Antarctic winter of 1912, their, bodies were found, Their journals and papers were recovered．

Following the news of his death, Scott became a British hero, a status maintained for more than 50 years．In the closing decades of the twentieth century, however, in a more skeptical age, the legend was reassessed．From a previously unassailable position, Scott became a figure of controversy, with questions raised about his competence and character．

60．What's the passage mainly about?

       A．Scott's competitors on the scientific voyage to the Antarctic．

       B．Humans' expeditions to the Antarctic in the 1900s．

       C．Scott's two expeditions to the Antarctic,

       D．．Scott's achievements in discovering the world．

61．On the first expedition to the Antarctic, Scott and his party       __．

       A．did scientific research                    B．got support from many schools

       C．reached the South Pole                   D．learned how to use sledge dogs

62．What can we infer from the passage?

       A．Scott and his party encountered danger on the two expeditions to the Antarctic．

       B．The government didn't support Scott's second expedition to the Antarctic．

       C．Amundsen tried several times to reach the South Pole but he failed．

       D．Scott didn't make special preparations for his second expedition to the Antarctic．

63．The underlined word "unassailable" in the last paragraph, means"_      _"．

       A．unclear                                       B．unconfirmed    

       C．unfortunate                                     D．undoubted   

Answer 1

C AAD