2004年5月專業四級模擬題(閱讀部分)

　二、閱讀部分(每題2分，共40分)

　　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 (魚雷) 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 andbegan to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some who succeeded fought offthose 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 seeming nothingness, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.

　　Now Germanys 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, doesnt 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: "Because 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 unavoi dable - and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their countrys monstrous crimes in the Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize ( 使...不得勢 ) the neo- Nazis at home and make peace with

【5月專業四級模擬題(閱讀部分)】相關文章：

專業四級閱讀備考04-25

專業四級英語閱讀的應試技巧04-25

專業四級考試快速閱讀練習及答案05-04

專業四級考試閱讀練習：關于地震05-04

本月閱讀模擬題04-28

四級閱讀解析04-25

英語專業四級閱讀理解題型分析及對策05-02

NETEM閱讀部分的真實性分析05-02

2008年閱讀模擬題(十二)05-01

四級英語閱讀技巧04-25