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  3. It was the worst tragedy in【C1】______history, six times more deadly than the

It was the worst tragedy in【C1】______history, six times more deadly than the

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问题     It was the worst tragedy in【C1】______history, six times more deadly than the Titanic.
    When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes【C2】______from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II, more than 10,000 people—mostly women, children and old people【C3】______the final Red Army【C4】______into Nazi Germany—were【C5】______aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families【C6】______into the sea as the ship【C7】______and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some, who succeeded, fought【C8】______those in the water【C9】______had the strength to try to【C10】______their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. "I’ll never forget the screams," says Christa Ntitzmann, 87, one of the 1,200 survivors. She recalls【C11】______the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave— and into seeming【C12】______, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.
    Now Germany’s Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has【C13】______the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children【C14】______his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. The book, which will【C15】______in English next year, doesn’t【C16】______the sinking; its heroine is a pregnant young woman who survives the catastrophe only to say later: "Nobody wanted to hear about it, not here in the West (of Germany) and not at all in the East." The reason was obvious. As Grass【C17】______it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so【C18】______, we didn’t have the energy left to【C19】______our own【C20】______." [br] 【C5】
选项 A、thrust
B、crowded
C、tucked
D、packed
答案 D
解析 词义辨析题thrust“猛然或用力推(某物[某人])，(自己)向前挤”，crowdvt．“充塞(某空间)”：Tourists crowded the pavement．游客把人行道挤得水泄不通；tuck sth．into sth．；tuck sth．in／up将(布、纸等)的端部或边缘掖好、叠拢或卷起(使之看不见或固定住)；pack A(in／into B)／pack B(with A)“将人／物装入(箱、盒、密闭空间等)”。此处是指人们被密集地塞在船上，故选D。
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