Passage One
Questions 21 to 25 are bad on the following passage.
It was the worst tragedy in maritime (航海的) history, six times more deadly than the Titanic.五一劳动节英语手抄报
When the German crui 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 nt hundreds of families sliding into the a as the ship tilted and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought off tho in the water who had the strength to try to claw their way aboard. Most people froze immediately. Tll 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 eming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.
Now Germany's Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has revived the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children - with his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. 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." The reason was obvious. As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Becau the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn't have the energy left to tell of our own sufferings.''
The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable - and necessary. By unrervedly owning up to their country's monstrous crimes in the Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize (使...不得势) the neo- Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today's unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically corr
ect Germans believe that they' ye now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy.
21. Why does the author say the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst tragedy in maritime history?
A) It was attacked by Russian torpedoes.
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B) Most of its pasngers were frozen to death.
C) Its victims were mostly women and children.
D) It caud the largest number of casualties.lea
22. Hundreds of families dropped into the a when
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A) a strong ice storm tilted the ship
B) the crui ship sank all of a sudden
C) the badly damaged ship leaned toward one side
D) the frightened pasngers fought desperately for lifeboats
23. The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy was little talked about for more than half a century becau Germans
A) were eager to win international acceptance
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C) ad been pressured to keep silent about it
法拉古特国际学校学费 D) were afraid of offending their neighbors
24. How does Gunter Grass revive the memory of the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy?
A) By prenting the horrible scene of the torpedo attack.
valve是什么意思 B) By describing the ship's sinking in great detail.
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C) By giving an interview to the weekly Die Woche.
D) By depicting the survival of a young pregnant woman.
25. It can be learned from the passage that Germans no longer think that
A) they will be misunderstood if they talk about the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy
B) the Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy is a reasonable price to pay for the nation's past misdeeds
C) Germany is responsible for the horrible crimes it committed in World War II
D) it is wrong to equate their sufferings with tho of other countries
Passage Two
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Questions 26 to 30 are bad on the following passage.
Given the lack of fit between gifted students and their schools, it is not surprising that s
uch students often have little good to say 'about their school experience. In one study of 400 adul who had achieved distinction in all areas of life, rearchers found that three-fifths of the individuals either did badly in school or were unhappy in school. Few MacArthur Prize fellows, winners of the MacArthur Award for creative accomplishment, had good things to say about their precollegiate schooling if they had not been placed in advanced programs. Anecdotal (名人轶事) reports support this. Pablo Picasso, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, Oliver Goldsmith, and William Butler Yeats all disliked school. So did Winston Churchill, who almost failed out of Harrow, an elite British school. About Oliver Goldsmith, one of his teachers remarked, "Never was so dull a boy." Often the children realize that they know more than their teachers, and their teachers often feel that the children are arrogant, inattentive, or unmotivated.
purposSome of the gifted people may have done poorly in school becau their, gifts were not scholastic. Maybe we can account for Picasso in this way. But most fared poorly in school not becau they lacked ability but becau they found school unchallenging and conquently lost interest. Yeats described the lack of fit between his mind and school: "B
ecau I had found it difficult to attend to anything less interesting than my own thoughts, I was difficult to teach." As noted earlier, gifted children of all kinds tend to be strong-willed nonconformists. Nonconformity and stubbornness (and Yeats's level of arrogance and lf-absorption) are likely to lead to Conflicts with teachers.
When highly gifted students in any domain talk about what was important to the development of their abilities, they are far more likely to mention their families than their schools or teachers. A writing prodigy (神童) studied by David Feldman and Lynn Goldsmith was taught far more about writing by his journalist father than his English teacher. High-IQ children, in Australia studied by Miraca Gross had much more positive feelings about their families than their schools. About half of the mathematicians studied by Benjamin Bloom had little good to say about school. They all did well in school and took honors class when available, and some skipped grades.
