APRIL 5 marks the 100^th anniversary(周年纪念日)of the sinking(下沉)of the Titanic. In 1997, the movie Titanic was a huge hit all around the world. Now, the 3-D version of the movie will come to Chinese theaters on April 10.
As anyone who has seen the movie knows, the Titanic struck an iceberg(冰山) and sank on its first voyage in 1912, killing 1,517 people. A century after the accident, scientists have found something new to blame(负责任) for the sinking: the moon. Donald Olson, a Texas State University physicist, led a team of astronomers(天文学家) to examine the moon’s role, according to Reuters.
Normally, icebergs stay in place and cannot move until they melt enough or a high tide(潮汐) frees them. A single iceberg can become stuck many times on its journey southward. The process can take several years.
According to Olson, a hundred years ago the moon made its closest approach to the Earth in more than 1,400 years. This caused the moon to have a much stronger pull on the Earth’s oceans than usual, which created a super-high tide. The tide pushed icebergs from shallow waters off the coasts of Canada’s provinces, Newfoundland and Labrador, into the Titanic’s way.
“Of course, the final cause of the accident was that the ship struck an iceberg,” Olson told Reuters. “It went full speed into a region with icebergs, but the lunar connection(月亮的联系) may explain how an unusually large number of icebergs got into the path of the Titanic.”
The research team will publish their research in the April issue of Sky & Telescope magazine.
根据短文内容，选最佳择答案,并在答题卡上按要求作答。
【小题1】 How many people lost their lives in this accident?

1根据材料完成下列各题。

Beethoven

Born in 1770 in Germany

A  musician (音乐家)

Died in 1827

Florence Nightingale

Born in Italy on May 12th, 1820

An English nurse

Died in 1910

Bill Gates

Born in I955 in the USA

Wrote Business @ the Speed of Thought

Owns Microsoft

Thomas Edison

Born in 1847 in the USA

Made over 1,000 inventions (发明)

Died in 1931

Yao Ming

Born on September 12th, 1980 in Shanghai, China

A basketball player

Played for the Houston Rockets, the USA

1.Thomas Edison is from _       _.

A. Canada        B. Italy          C. America       D. China

2.The             was born in 1770.

A. musician       B. nurse         C. businessman    D. scientist

3.Business@ the Speed of Thought is the name of a_______.

A. song      B. book          C. school       D. film

4.Nightingale died in _        _

A. 1931         B. 1827      C.1847           D. 1910

5.Which of the following is TRUE?

A. Yao Ming is a football player.

B. Edison made over l, 000 inventions.

C. Nightingale was a scientist.

D. Bill Gates worked in Microsoft in 1955.

Frank W．Woolworth was born in Rodman, New York in 1852．His family was very   1   and even there was never enough food to eat．So, Frank decided he would do something else instead of being a farmer．Later, he took a short business training to find a job．As a result, he got a job as a  2   in a large city．

It was not long before Woolworth realized that he had a natural skill(天赋) for displaying goods(商品) to attract the customers’(顾客)   3  , but he also learned something more important later．One day his boss(老板) told him to sell some odds and ends(小商品) for as much as he could get．A fresh idea came into his mind．He put all these goods on one table with a sign, it   4  : FIVE CENTS EACH．Seeing this, people pushed to buy the goods and the   5   was soon cleared．

Soon after that, Woolworth opened his own store, selling five and ten cents．This is the   6   of the famous "five and ten store"．But he had another lesson to learn before he became successful．That is, if you want to make    7   by selling goods at a low price, you have to buy them in large number directly from the factory．For example, Woolworth once went to Germany and placed an order for knives．The order was so large that the factory had to    8   running 24 hours a day for a whole year．In this way, the price of the knives was cut down by half．

By 1919, Woolworth had over l,000    9   in the USA and Canada, and opened his first store in London．He made many millions, and his name became famous throughout (遍及)    10  ．He always ran his business according to strict rules, of which the most important was: "THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT．"

1．A．rich                           B．poor                       C．big                         D．small

2．A．salesman                    B．farmer                    C．teacher                   D．doctor

3．A．feeling                     B．ideas                       C．help                        D．interest

4．A．wrote                         B．said                        C．spoke                     D．talked

5．A．ground                    B．table                       C．room                      D．store

6．A．beginning                   B．end                         C．secret                            D．rules

7．A．friends                    B．mistakes                 C．progress                 D．money

8．A．begin                         B．finish                      C．keep                       D．stop

9．A．dollars                     B．stores                     C．factories                 D．salesmen

10．A．the USA                   B．Canada                   C．Germany                D．the world