2. 职称英语
  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] 【C6】
选项 A、skidding
B、sliding
C、skipping
D、slipping
答案 B
解析 词义辨析题 skid“(指汽车等)滑向一侧，打滑”；slide“(使某物)滑动”：Iwas sliding(about)helplessly(on the ice)．我(在冰上)身不由己地滑起来了；skip轻快地跳(尤指每只脚轮流跳两次)；slip“滑动，滑倒，失足”：One slip and you couldfall off the cliff．脚下一滑就可能从悬崖上跌下去。此处指从结冰的甲板上滑到了海里。
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