Millvina Dean, Titanic’s last Survivor(幸存者), died on May 31，2009 at a nursing home(療養(yǎng)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(殘骸)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(紀(jì)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.
小題1:Millvina Dean was _______ when the Titanic sank．
A．nine weeks old
B．twelve weeks old
C．two years old
D．twenty years old
小題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
小題3:The underlined words “set off” mean ______ in the passage．
A. leave   B. start     C. improve    D record
小題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
小題5:From the passage above, we can’t infer (猜測(cè)) 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

小題1:A
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:C
小題5:D

試題分析：這篇短文主要描述了泰坦尼克號(hào)的幸存者——米爾維娜迪恩的故事。當(dāng)泰坦尼克失事時(shí)，她才九個(gè)星期大，直到人們發(fā)現(xiàn)泰坦尼克的遺骸后，她才開始講述她的故事。但是她并不想看泰坦尼克號(hào)這部電影，因?yàn)檫@樣會(huì)讓她想起自己的父親。
小題1:根據(jù)短文第二段She was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic sank on the night of April 14, 1912. 描述，可知選A。
小題2:通過閱讀短文，可知本文沒有提及他們一家乘坐泰坦尼克號(hào)的原因，故選C。
小題3:聯(lián)系下文a wave of interest in the ship,，可知這個(gè)短語的意思是引起了對(duì)于這艘船的興趣。故選B，開始，啟動(dòng)。
小題4:根據(jù)“They found the wreck and after that, they found me,” she said.及下文描述，可知選C。
小題5:根據(jù)短文最后一段描述，可知迪安夫人根本不想看這部電影。故選D，我們猜測(cè)不出她非常想看這部電影。
點(diǎn)評(píng)：本文中長(zhǎng)句較多，一時(shí)很難讀懂句子含義，注意多讀幾遍，不要強(qiáng)求非得理解一詞一句的含義，能把握文章大意就行。然后帶著問題閱讀短文，一般就能順利找出答題依據(jù)。對(duì)于不能直接找到根據(jù)的問題注意聯(lián)系上下文，根據(jù)短文中心總結(jié)出正確答案。
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