阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
In January 1820, some eight months after it had sailed from Kronstadt, the first Russian Antarctic expedition approached its goal. Its commander, Von Bellingshausen was, a(n) ____21____ sailor, having served in the first Russian voyage around the earth from 1803-06. But this was a voyage unlike any other, ____22____ in desperately cold and dangerous conditions to ____23____ Antarctica. People had long known that a ____24____ pole must exist. But could they get there?
Von Bellingshausen ____25____ the first ship, the Vostok, while his second-in-command, Mikhail, took charge of the Mirny. For ____26____, the two commanders had promised never to ____27____ one another’s ships throughout the voyage.
By November, the two ships were in Australia, where they ____28____ for repairs before heading south-east. On and on they sailed, the weather ever colder, the mist ever thicker, a “long voyage, with ____29____ from ice, snow, rain and fog” On 21 January, he spotted land, the first ever ____30____ south of the Antarctic Circle: an island, as it ____31____, which he named after Peter the Great. To celebrate, he handed out glasses of wine to his men, who gave three ____32____. But still they had not seen the great southern ____33____ itself.
For the next few ____34____, they picked their way ____35____ along the edge of a great ice sheet, aware that any ____36____ could be fatal (致命的).
Then, on 27 January, the fog ____37____. It was, von Bellingshausen ____38____, the “most beautiful day”, icily cold but with ____39____ skies and bright sunshine. And then he saw it: Antarctica. He called it Alexander I Land, ____40____ the Czar he served.
21. A. amateur B. arbitrary C. reserved D. experienced
22. A. skating B. sailing C. diving D. flying
23. A. find B. leave C. protect D. measure
24. A. eastern B. western C. southern D. northern
25. A. commanded B. constructed C. mended D. deserted
26. A. honour B. friendship C. safety D. convenience
27. A. make use of B. lose sight of C. pay attention to D. hold on to
28. A. stopped B. accelerated C. charged D. fled
29 A. joys B. dangers C. scenery D. absence
30. A. seen B. touched C. mentioned D. imagined
31. A. carried on B. faded away C. pulled in D. turned out
32. A. names B. orders C. cheers D. goals
33. A. port B. ocean C. continent D. mountain
34. A. years B. months C. weeks D. days
35. A. eagerly B. carefully C. swiftly D. randomly
36. A. promise B. assumption C. help D. mistake
37. A. lifted B. thickened C. appeared D. returned
38. A. predicted B. repeated C. added D. remembered
39. A. terrible B. clear C. dark D. stormy
40. A. with B. from C. after D. by
【答案】
In January 1820, some eight months after it had sailed from Kronstadt, the first Russian Antarctic expedition approached its goal. Its commander, Von Bellingshausen was, a(n) ____21____ sailor, having served in the first Russian voyage around the earth from 1803-06. But this was a voyage unlike any other, ____22____ in desperately cold and dangerous conditions to ____23____ Antarctica. People had long known that a ____24____ pole must exist. But could they get there?
Von Bellingshausen ____25____ the first ship, the Vostok, while his second-in-command, Mikhail, took charge of the Mirny. For ____26____, the two commanders had promised never to ____27____ one another’s ships throughout the voyage.
By November, the two ships were in Australia, where they ____28____ for repairs before heading south-east. On and on they sailed, the weather ever colder, the mist ever thicker, a “long voyage, with ____29____ from ice, snow, rain and fog” On 21 January, he spotted land, the first ever ____30____ south of the Antarctic Circle: an island, as it ____31____, which he named after Peter the Great. To celebrate, he handed out glasses of wine to his men, who gave three ____32____. But still they had not seen the great southern ____33____ itself.
For the next few ____34____, they picked their way ____35____ along the edge of a great ice sheet, aware that any ____36____ could be fatal (致命的).
Then, on 27 January, the fog ____37____. It was, von Bellingshausen ____38____, the “most beautiful day”, icily cold but with ____39____ skies and bright sunshine. And then he saw it: Antarctica. He called it Alexander I Land, ____40____ the Czar he served.
21. A. amateur B. arbitrary C. reserved D. experienced
22. A. skating B. sailing C. diving D. flying
23. A. find B. leave C. protect D. measure
24. A. eastern B. western C. southern D. northern
25. A. commanded B. constructed C. mended D. deserted
26. A. honour B. friendship C. safety D. convenience
27. A. make use of B. lose sight of C. pay attention to D. hold on to
28. A. stopped B. accelerated C. charged D. fled
29 A. joys B. dangers C. scenery D. absence
30. A. seen B. touched C. mentioned D. imagined
31. A. carried on B. faded away C. pulled in D. turned out
32. A. names B. orders C. cheers D. goals
33. A. port B. ocean C. continent D. mountain
34. A. years B. months C. weeks D. days
35. A. eagerly B. carefully C. swiftly D. randomly
36. A. promise B. assumption C. help D. mistake
37. A. lifted B. thickened C. appeared D. returned
38. A. predicted B. repeated C. added D. remembered
39. A. terrible B. clear C. dark D. stormy
40. A. with B. from C. after D. by
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