Antarctica's vast, frozen, barren landscape has beckoned scholars and__1__alikefor more than a century. Indeed, the history of__2__on the continent is as much abouthunger as heroism, as Jason Anthony explores in his book. "Hunger," Anthony writes, "wasthe one spice every expedition carried."
Think those aboard that Russian research vessel and Chinese icebreaker that justspent several days stuck in the Antarctic ice had it rough? The__3___pales compared tothe legend of what British explorer Ernest Shackleton went through.
    In 1914, on his way to try to cross the continent (he never made it), Shackleton'sship, the Endurance, got trapped by ice--then crushed--in the Weddell Sea. So there hewas,1,000 miles from the__4__humans, with no way to call for help,__5__on the icewith his 28-man crew for about a year. It was nearly another year before all were rescued.Frank Hurley, the expedition's photo grapher, wrote of men "crazed by their privations ( 困苦 ) ." Their__6__and sleeping hours filled with dreams of food__7__dumplingsand other carbohydrates. In the meantime, they__8__on tinned goods they'd broughtwith them and plenty of hoosh—— "the bleak Antarctic soup," as Anthony calls it, "of meatand snow".
    The meat in question was often seal or penguin--thousands of the animals gavetheir lives to feed the ambitions of those early continental explorers. And not all weregorged and__9__without qualms ( 良心谴责) . Carl Skottsberg, a botanist on an early1900s Swedish expedition that__10__ransacked ( 洗劫) the newly laid eggs of Adeliepenguins, seemed to be warding off critics when he wrote: "How many of my readersknow what it means to lie in cold, and darkness, and hunger, week after week?" 
A．adventurers   
B．civilized  
C．dying    
D．especially  
E. Exploration 
F．hungrily 
G．Murdered 
H．Nearest 
I．Ordeal 
J．poverty 
K．Slaughtered 
L．Stranded 
M．Survived 
N．virttually 
O．waking