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A．One of the students asked him about it in the previous class.
B．He read about it the previous day.
C．He had just read Dr. Frederick Cock's travel log
D．The students were required to read about it for that day's class

参考答案A

解析:Good morning, class. Before we begin today, I would like to address an issue that one of you reminded me of after the last lecture. As you may recall, last time I mentioned that Robert E. Pierre was the first person to reach the North Pole. What I neglected to mention was the controversy around Pierre's pioneering accomplishment. In 1910, a committee of the national geographical society examined Commodore Pierre's claim to have reached the North Pole on April 6th 1909 and found no reason to doubt him. This judgment was actually confirmed by a committee of the US congress in 1991. Nevertheless, Pierre's claim was surrounded by controversy. This was largely due to the competing claim of Dr. Frederic Cook who told the world he had reached the Pole a four-year earlier. Over the decades Pierre was given the benefit of the doubt, but critics persisted in raising questions about his navigation and the distances he claimed to have covered. So the Navigation Foundation spent an additional 12 months of exhaustive examination of documents relating to Pierre's polar expedition. The documents supported Pierre' s claims about the distances he covered. After also conducting an extensive computer analysis of photos taken by Pierre at the pole, they concluded that Pierre and his companions did in fact reach the near vicinity of the North Pole on April 6th,1909. OK, today we're going to talk about exploration of the opposite end of the world. I assume you all read chapter 3 in our text and are now familiar with the names: Emerson and Scott.
解析
Why did the professor mention the controversy surrounding Pierre?
细节题。根据I would like to address an issue that one of you reminded me of after the last lecture．和What I neglected to mention was the controversy around Pierre’s pioneering accomplishment．可知．一位学生在上次课之后问过他。因此，正确答案为A。

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A．Pierre had announced his success prematurely.
B．The investigation of Pierre's expedition wasn't thorough.
C．Pierre wasn't an experienced explorer.
D．He had reached the pole before Pierre did.

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单选题

A．They talked to one of Pierre's companions.
B．They interviewed Pierre.
C．They conducted a computer analysis of photographs.
D．They examined Pierre's navigation tools,

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单选题

A．Dr. Cook's expedition.
B．The conclusions of the Navigation Foundation.
C．Exploration of the Equator.
D．Exploration of the South Pole.

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