Question

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. 1.
   Millvina Dean was _______ when the Titanic sank．
   1. A.
      nine weeks old
   2. B.
      twelve weeks old
   3. C.
      two years old
   4. D.
      twenty years old
2. 2.
   Why did the Deans take the Titanic ?
   1. A.
      They were going on a holiday
   2. B.
      They were going to a party in the US
   3. C.
      We can’t find out the reason from this passage
   4. D.
      They were going to visit their grandparents in
3. 3.
   The underlined words “set off” mean ______ in the passage．
   1. A.
      leave
   2. B.
      start
   3. C.
      improve   
      
   4. D.
      record
4. 4.
   Millvina Dean didn’t say anything about the Titanic until ______.
   1. A.
      she was ill
   2. B.
      she was dying
   3. C.
      the wreck of the Titanic was discovered
   4. D.
      20 years later
5. 5.
   From the passage above, we can’t infer (猜測) that ______.
   1. A.
      seven hundred and five people survived in the Titanic sinking
   2. B.
      Millvina Dean’s father died in the sinking
   3. C.
      The wreck of the Titanic was found in 1985
   4. D.
      Ms Dean wanted to see the film Titanic very much

Answer 1

ACBCD
試題分析：這篇短文主要描述了泰坦尼克號的幸存者——米爾維娜迪恩的故事。當泰坦尼克失事時，她才九個星期大，直到人們發(fā)現泰坦尼克的遺骸后，她才開始講述她的故事。但是她并不想看泰坦尼克號這部電影，因為這樣會讓她想起自己的父親。
1.根據短文第二段She was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic sank on the night of April 14, 1912. 描述，可知選A。
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的原因，故選C。
3.聯系下文a wave of interest in the ship,，可知這個短語的意思是引起了對于這艘船的興趣。故選B，開始，啟動。
4.根據“They found the wreck and after that, they found me,” she said.及下文描述，可知選C。
5.根據短文最后一段描述，可知迪安夫人根本不想看這部電影。故選D，我們猜測不出她非常想看這部電影。
考點：關于一個泰坦尼克號幸存者的記述文閱讀
點評：本文中長句較多，一時很難讀懂句子含義，注意多讀幾遍，不要強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。對于不能直接找到根據的問題注意聯系上下文，根據短文中心總結出正確答案。