TELEVISION ALSO INTERFERES WITH FAMILY LIFE AND COMMUNICATION.A. CON...

Câu 20: Television also interferes with family life and communication.A. conflicts B. comes C. chats D. goesRead the following passage and blacken the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet toindicate the correct answer to the following questions.South Pole explorer Ernest Shackleton never reached his goal of crossing Antarctica, but thecircumstances that prevented him from reaching that goal pushed him to achieve an evenmore amazing feat. In January 1915 Shackelton‟s ship Endurance became trapped in the iceof Antarctica. He and his crew of twenty-seven lived on the ship trapped in the ice floes fornine months, until they had to abandon the ship when the ice crushed it. The day the shipsank, Shackleton wrote his new goal: “The task is to reach land with all members of theexpedition.” The group camped on the ice floes for six months, until the ice broke up and theytook small lifeboats to nearby uninhabited Elephant Island. During their time on the ship, ice,and island, Shackleton‟s group endured temperatures as low as twenty degrees below zero andhad no daylight from May to July. They had to hunt scarce seals and penguins for food, andwere hunted themselves by killer whales and sea leopards, which would rise through the ice insearch of prey. Throughout this time, Shackleton demonstrated his leadership by rationingfood, rotating use of warmer sleeping bags, and keeping a calm, positive attitude that helpedmorale. He also showed great courage as he and five of his men crossed eight hundred miles ofdangerous ocean to the nearest inhabited island to seek help. Despite no maps and terribleweather, Shackeleton‟s small boat reached the island where Shackleton and an even smallergroup crossed unexplored, jagged mountains to reach a whaling station. He organized a rescueparty to retrieve the rest of his crew, and despite the perils of living in south polar waters foralmost two years, all twenty-seven men came back from the expedition. Shackleton nevercrossed the South Pole, but he completed the task of bringing back all of his crew alive.