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  3. In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【21】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian

In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【21】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian

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问题     In 1942, the HMS Edinburgh was sunk in the Barents Sea. It was on its【21】______back to Britain with ninety-one boxes of Russian gold.【22】______thirty-nine years it lay there, too deep for divers to【23】. No one was allowed to explode it, either, since the bodies of sixty of the crew also lay in the【24】______. Then, in 1981, an ex-diver called Jessop decided to try using new diving techniques.
    【25】______he could not afford to finance the【26】______which was going to cost four million pounds, he had to look for people who were【27】______to take the risk.【28】______, they were not even sure the gold was going to be there! First a Scottish diving company, then a German shipping company agreed to join in the retrieval【29】______. Not long after that, Jessop【30】______a fourth company to take a【31】______.Since the gold was the【32】______of the British and the Soviet governments, they both hoped to make a【33】______, too! The biggest problem was how to get【34】______the gold. Fortunately, they were able to examine the Edinburgh’s sister ship, the HMS Belfast, to【35】______out the exact location of the bomb room, 【36】______the gold was stored.
    They knew it was to be an extremely difficult and dangerous undertaking. To reach the gold, they would have to cut a large square【37】______the body of the ship, go through the empty fuel tank and down to the bomb room. After twenty-eight dives, they【38】______to find the first bar. Everyone worked【39】______the clock, helping to clean and stack the gold, 【40】______as to finish the job as quickly as possible.
【29】
选项 A、assignment
B、temptation
C、attempt
D、commission
答案D
解析 assignment工作，任务；temptation引诱；attempt尝试，试图；commission委任，委托。assignment与commission都可以表示一项任务，但assignment侧重于表示分配、指派的任务，而commission可以表示委托完成的任务。根据上下文，杰索普需要说服一些公司加入这次搜索任务，因此用“委托”这些公司完成任务更为贴切，故选D。
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