Question

The passage as a whole indicates that the mission of the author and his companions was ________________________.

• A. to investigate the nature of the countryside
• B. to detect the movements of suspicious beings
• C. to study supernatural phenomena
• D. to trace the light to its place of origin

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

to trace the light to its place of origin

Option D: The entire passage is based on the "yellow speck of light burning in front".

As mentioned in this line "at last we could see whence it came, and then we knew that we were very close", the passage is about reaching the source of light, "tracing the light to its place of origin".

Hence option D is correct.

options A, B and C: These lines have neither been mentioned nor implied in the passage.

Hence options A, B and C are incorrect.