Question

Millvina Dean, Titanic’s last Survivor(幸存者), died on May 31，2009 at a nursing home(疗养院) in Southampton.. She was 97 and had been in poor health for several weeks.

Ms Dean was the youngest among the ship’s 705 survivors. She was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic sank on the night of April 14, 1912. She survived with her mother and her 2-year-old brother. Her father, Bertram Dean, died in the sinking．

Millvina Dean never married. For many years after the sinking，she never spoke of it to people around her. But that changed after September 1, 1985 when the wreck(残骸)of the Titanic was discovered. That set off a wave of interest in the ship, especially after the movie Titanic.“They found the wreck and after that, they found me,” she said.

In the last 20 years of her life, she went to the US, Canada and Europe to take part in events related to the sinking. She said all that she knew of what happened during the sinking was learned from her mother.

She moved to the nursing home because of her falling health. In order to pay the living costs there，she began to sell her Titanic souvenirs(纪念品).

Ms Dean had never seen the movie Titanic. She explains the movie would make her think of what had happened to her father, so she didn’t want to see it.

1.Millvina Dean was _______ when the Titanic sank．

A．nine weeks old

B．twelve weeks old

C．two years old

D．twenty years old

2.Why did the Deans take the Titanic ?

A．They were going on a holiday

B．They were going to a party in the US

C．We can’t find out the reason from this passage.

D．They were going to visit their grandparents in

3.The underlined words “set off” mean ______ in the passage．

A. leave   B. start     C. improve    D record

4.Millvina Dean didn’t say anything about the Titanic until _______.

A．she was ill.

B．she was dying

C．the wreck of the Titanic was discovered

D．20 years later

5.From the passage above, we can’t infer (猜测) that _________.

A．seven hundred and five people survived in the Titanic sinking

B．Millvina Dean’s father died in the sinking

C．The wreck of the Titanic was found in 1985

D．Ms Dean wanted to see the film Titanic very much

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.C

5.D

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文主要描述了泰坦尼克号的幸存者——米尔维娜迪恩的故事。当泰坦尼克失事时，她才九个星期大，直到人们发现泰坦尼克的遗骸后，她才开始讲述她的故事。但是她并不想看泰坦尼克号这部电影，因为这样会让她想起自己的父亲。

1.根据短文第二段She was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic sank on the night of April 14, 1912. 描述，可知选A。

2.通过阅读短文，可知本文没有提及他们一家乘坐泰坦尼克号的原因，故选C。

3.联系下文a wave of interest in the ship,，可知这个短语的意思是引起了对于这艘船的兴趣。故选B，开始，启动。

4.根据“They found the wreck and after that, they found me,” she said.及下文描述，可知选C。

5.根据短文最后一段描述，可知迪安夫人根本不想看这部电影。故选D，我们猜测不出她非常想看这部电影。

考点：关于一个泰坦尼克号幸存者的记述文阅读