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The explorer's published account describes the crossing of the ice shelf as uneventful. His private diary for those weeks, however, records three days with no entries at all, and the entry that follows them begins 'We are, all of us, alive.' This suggests that ____
Which choice most logically completes the text?
- A. the crossing was far more dangerous than the published account admits.Correct
- B. the diary was written after the expedition.
- C. the explorer lost the diary for three days.
- D. the published account is more detailed than the diary.
Answer: A. the crossing was far more dangerous than the published account admits.
Silent days, then relief at being alive: something the public version left out.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. the diary was written after the expedition.
- The diary is dated during the crossing.
- C. the explorer lost the diary for three days.
- Missing entries are more plausibly explained by crisis than by a lost book, given the next entry.
- D. the published account is more detailed than the diary.
- The published account calls the crossing uneventful; that is less detail, not more.
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