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Part B
Which two sentences in Passage 1 support the claim in Part A?
The members of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 2013-2014 (AAE)... seemed strangely blasé-even
Ogiddily upbeat-during their ten days stranded in the ice.
(paragraph 3)
Aa
The U.S. sent another icebreaker, the U.S. Polar Star, to rescue Xue Long and Shokalskiy, but that mission was
Orecently called off when the ships were able to break free from the ice.
(paragraph 8)
In the wake of the rescue, a strong undercurrent of criticism began to spread among some Antarctic scientists
and journalists. (paragraph 10)
Other commentators told Revkin that the conditions of the pack ice near Commonwealth Bay (a research subject
of the 2013-14 expedition) amounted to an obvious setup for getting frozen in. (paragraph 11)
The whole expedition, these experts implied, amounted to a "frivolous" lark that added almost nothing to our
knowledge of the southern continent. (paragraph 11)
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