e largest number, deadly = casualties。注意原文中的比较级在答案中要么还是比较级,要么转变成最高级。
[干扰项分析]A) It was attacked by Russian torpedoes.它被俄国鱼雷攻击,B) Most of its passengers were frozen to death.大部分乘客都被冻死,A和B也是文章中提到的细节,但与本题无关, 偏离考点。C) Its victims were mostly women and children.遇难者大部分是妇女和儿童,尽管文章提到遇难者大部分是妇女、儿童和老年人,但仅凭遇难者主要是妇女和儿童并不能得出这是最严重的海难和悲剧。因为其它海难的主要遇难者也可能大部分是妇女、儿童,其比例还可能更高;另外,原文中说的是“大部分是妇女、儿童和老年人”,选项C中未提到老年人,也不全面。有同学说,从网上查到资料历史上最惨的海难事件是GOYA而不是Wilhelm Gustloff。在此提请注意:命题者不是在考查考生的背景知识,而是考查考生对文章本身的理解。答题时一定要从原文出发,一定要基于文中作者的观点及列举的事实。
22. Hundreds of families dropped into the sea when .
[定位与替换]本题是问数百个家庭是什么时候掉入海里的?题干与sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea对应。句中的as对应题干中的when。由此我们得知,数百个家庭滑入大海的直接原因是船倾斜了,所以本题应选C) the badly damaged ship leaned toward one side 这艘损害巨大的船向一侧倾斜。至于the badly damaged ship的出处,文中第二行说的很清楚:hit by torpedoes(被鱼雷击中)。leaned toward one side = tilted。
[干扰项分析] A) a strong ice storm tilted the ship 一场强烈冰暴使那艘船倾斜,强烈干扰项,文章并未提到是冰暴使船倾斜(只提到使甲板上结了一层冰);B) the cruise ship sank all of a sudden 这艘巡洋舰突然间沉没,错在all of a sudden,也是曲解原文,若去掉all of a sudden就可以;D) the frightened passengers fought desperately for lifeboats受惊的乘客绝望地争夺救生艇,注意抢夺救生艇是在数百个家庭掉入海里之后发生的,对于本题而言,选项D显然是答非所问。解题的关键是把握并正确理解文章纷繁的细节。
(24) Now Germany’s Nobel Prize-winning author Gunter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children — with his latest novel Ctab Walk, published last month.(注意本句revived the memory of the 9,000 dead很好地承接了上文,Gunter Grass利用自己的小说又唤醒了人们的记忆。)The book, which will be out in English next year, doesn’t dwell on 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.” (介绍了本书并不详细阐述沉船本身,书里的女主人公是一名在海难里生还的孕妇,她只能在生还后感叹:在西德没有人要听这个,更不用说在东德。) (23) The reason was obvious. As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: “Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn’t have the energy left to tell to our own sufferings.” (The reason指的是德国人为什么不愿意提及Gustloff悲剧的原因。As Grass put it in a recent interview… 这里it是指the reason …因为我们德国人需要为之负责的罪行在过去和现在都是如此的显著,没有多余的精力来谈论我们自己的痛苦。这里是因果关系考点,并和文章主题相关,考生应做标记。)
23.The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy was little talked about for more than half a century because Germans &nb
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