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[单项选择] It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) .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 the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go d own. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off those in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. "I’’ll never forget the screams," says Christa Niittzmann, 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 hall’’ a century.
Now Germany’’s Nobel Prize-winning author Günt
A. It was attacked by Russian torpedoes.
B. Most of its passengers were frozen to death.
C. Its victims were mostly women and children.
D. It caused the largest number of casualties.
[单项选择] It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) 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 World 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 the decks 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 try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. "I’’ll never forget the screams," says Christa Ntitzmann, 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 Gtinter Grass has
A. It was attacked by Russian torpedoes.
B. Most of its passengers were frozen to death.
C. Its victims were mostly women and children.
D. It caused the largest number of casualties.
