As writer Caroline Alexander makes clear in her forceful and well－researched story The Endurance, adventuring was even then a thoroughly commercial effort.Scotts 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.

　　★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.

　　2.Who reached the South Pole first according to the text?

　　A．Frank Hurley.

　　B．Ernest Shackleton.

　　C．Robert Falcon Scott.

　　D．Caroline Alexander.

　　3.What does Alexander think was the purpose of the 1914 voyage?

　　A．Artistic creation.

　　B．Scientific research.

　　C．Money making.

　　D．Treasure hunting.

　　Passage 4　(2016·全国)

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