D) To expand their operations at a lower cost.

Part II                  Reading Comprehension            (35 minutes)
Directions: There are 4 passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre.
Passage One

Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following following passage.

It was the words tragedy in maritime (航海) history, six times more deadly than the Titanic .When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes (鱼雷) fired from a Russian submarine in the final winter of Word War II, more than 10,000 people –mostly women, children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany –were packed aboard. An ice storm had turned into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. “I’ll never forget the screams,” says Christa Nutzmann,87,one of the 1,200 survivors She recalls watching the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave –and into seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.

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

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