When a big ship is in very rough(不平坦的) sea, it has to be able to bend(弯) a little, otherwise it may break in two. If one end of the ship is on the top of one huge wave, and the other end is on the top of another, with the middle of the ship hanging in between; or if one huge wave comes up under the middle of the ship, leaving the two ends hanging, the ship's own weight will break its back if it is quite stiff(硬的).

  To make a big ship elastic(有弹性的) enough to avoid (避开) this danger, it has joints where the sections of the ship come together above the water-line, and these joints (连接处) open and shut slightly as the waves lift one section(部分) of the ship or another. This is enough to save the ship from breaking into pieces.

  One day a sailor was walking along a passage-way in a big ship during a storm when he was surprised to see a boy sitting comfortably in a chair at the end of the passage-way, which was opposite one of the ship's joints. The boy had a bag of nuts beside him, and every time the ship was lifted by a wave and the joint opened, he put a nut in it. As the ship came down again, the joint closed and cracked(压碎) the nut, gently but firmly. The boy then took it out and put the next one in as the joint opened again.

1.What does a big ship have to do when it is in very rough sea?

2.If one end of the ship is on the top of one huge wave, and the other end is on the top of another, with the middle of the ship hanging in between, what will happen to the ship if it is quite stiff?

3.Why does a big ship have joints?

4.What do these joints do?

5.Where was a sailor walking during the storm in this story?

6.What was he surprised to see?

7.What did the boy have beside him?

8.What did he do?

9.How was the nut cracked?

10.What did the boy do then?

Millvina Dean, Titanic’s last Survivor(幸存者), died on May 31,2009 at a nursing home(疗养院) 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(残骸)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(纪念品).
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.
【小题1】Millvina Dean was _______ when the Titanic sank.

A.nine weeks old
B.twelve weeks old
C.two years old
D.twenty years old
【小题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
【小题3】The underlined words “set off” mean ______ in the passage.
A. leave   B. start     C. improve    D record
【小题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
【小题5】From the passage above, we can’t infer (猜测) 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

Millvina Dean, Titanic’s last Survivor(幸存者), died on May 31,2009 at a nursing home(疗养院) 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(残骸)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(纪念品).

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.Millvina Dean was _______ when the Titanic sank.

A.nine weeks old

B.twelve weeks old

C.two years old

D.twenty years old

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

3.The underlined words “set off” mean ______ in the passage.

A. leave   B. start     C. improve    D record

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

5.From the passage above, we can’t infer (猜测) 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

 

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