雅思聽力十大黃金原則實例解析
Questions 47-50. Listen to the beginning of a lecture given by a history professor.
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 Pierres pioneering accomplishment. In 1910, a committee of the national geographical society examined Comeydore Pierres 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 1911. Nevertheless, Pierres claim was surrounded by controversy. This was largely due to the competing claim of Doctor 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 Pierres polar expedition. The documents supported Pierres 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 were 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.
中文參考譯文：
早上好。在我們開始之前，我想提一下上節課后一位同學給我提出的一個問題。你們可能還記得，上節課我說過Robert E. Pierre是第一個到達北極的人。而我沒提到過對Pierre這次歷險成就的爭論。1910年，一個國家地理學會小組考察了公布Comeydore Pierre在1909年4月6日登上北極點的報告，發現沒有理由懷疑他的成功。這個決定被美國國會在1911年就核實了。然而，Pierre的成就卻被疑問包圍著。這是因為Frederic Cook醫生公布他比Pierre早4年到達北極點。在以后的年代里Pierre賺了懷疑的便宜，但是批評家堅持對他所走方向和所走距離提出疑問。所以，領航基金會又用了12個月的難熬時間來考察Pierre的歷險。文件支持了Pierre對路程的主張。在用了大量電腦分析Pierre在北極點拍的照片以后，他們作出結論：Pierre和他的伙伴們實際上的確在1909年4月6日到達了北極點。好，今天我們將要討論對地球另一個極點的探索。我猜你們在讀過書中的第三章以后，一定對Emerson和Scott這兩個名字不生疏了吧?
Questions 47-50. Listen to the beginning of a lecture given by a history professor.
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 Pierres pioneering accomplishment. In 1910, a committee of the national geographical society examined Comeydore Pierres 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 1911. Nevertheless, Pierres claim was surrounded by controversy. This was largely due to the competing claim of Doctor 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 Pierres polar expedition. The documents supported Pierres 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 were 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.
中文參考譯文：
早上好。在我們開始之前，我想提一下上節課后一位同學給我提出的一個問題。你們可能還記得，上節課我說過Robert E. Pierre是第一個到達北極的人。而我沒提到過對Pierre這次歷險成就的爭論。1910年，一個國家地理學會小組考察了公布Comeydore Pierre在1909年4月6日登上北極點的報告，發現沒有理由懷疑他的成功。這個決定被美國國會在1911年就核實了。然而，Pierre的成就卻被疑問包圍著。這是因為Frederic Cook醫生公布他比Pierre早4年到達北極點。在以后的年代里Pierre賺了懷疑的便宜，但是批評家堅持對他所走方向和所走距離提出疑問。所以，領航基金會又用了12個月的難熬時間來考察Pierre的歷險。文件支持了Pierre對路程的主張。在用了大量電腦分析Pierre在北極點拍的照片以后，他們作出結論：Pierre和他的伙伴們實際上的確在1909年4月6日到達了北極點。好，今天我們將要討論對地球另一個極點的探索。我猜你們在讀過書中的第三章以后，一定對Emerson和Scott這兩個名字不生疏了吧?
