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Foreign Languages Department LIFE.INT.U3b Reading

LIFE INT UNIT 3B READING– Return to Titanic

PART A: Read the text on page 36 and 5. Which of the following did Dr. Ballard NOT
choose the best answer. see in the wreck?
(A) Champaign bottles
1. What is the passage mainly about? (B) The box holding the bottles
(A) How Titanic disappeared (C) Corks in the bottles
(B) Where the shipwreck of Titanic was (D) A woman’s shoe
found
(C) Going back to Titanic during a secret 6. Why does the writer mention James
mission Cameron?
(D) Visiting Titanic for the first time (A) To exemplify some of the people who
were in the ship when it sank
2. How long was Titanic sailing when she (B) To show that Titanic was a ship for
sank? celebrities.
(A) 15 days (C) To tell the story of a marriage in the
(B) 5 days shipwreck
(C) 10 days (D) To exemplify some of the people who
(D) 19 days visited the shipwreck

3. When did Dr. Ballard go back to Titanic?
(A) In 1985
(B) In 1912
(C) In 2004
(D) In 1960
4. Why did Dr. Ballard go back to Titanic?
(A) To help the passengers in the steamship
(B) To explore why the ship had hit the
iceberg
(C) To see what had changed in the wreck
using new video technology
(D) To celebrate something in the
shipwreck of Titanic
7. What is meant by the last sentence:
“The story of Titanic is not about the
ship, it’s about the people”?
(A) What we know about the story of
Titanic is incorrect.
(B) We shouldn’t care about the ship.
(C) There is another story about Titanic.
(D) We should respect the story of people
who died in the shipwreck.
8. According to paragraph 3, why did Dr.
Ballard feel disappointed?
(A) He saw children’s shoes in the wreck
(B) Women and children had died there in
1912.
(C) People went to the wreck for
filmmaking or for marriage.
(D) People forgot the story of the ship.

PART B: Put the words in the box into the related columns according to their word forms.

Passenger / Sink / Voyage / Nearby / Steamship / Shipwreck / Notice /

Submarine / Realize / Disappointed / Remain / Suddenly

noun verb adjective adverb

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Foreign Languages Department LIFE.INT.U3b Reading

ANSWERS:
PART A:
1.c
2.b
3.c
4.c
5.b
6.d
7.d
8.c

PART B:

noun verb adjective adverb

Passenger Sink Disappointed Suddenly
Voyage Notice Nearby
Steamship Realize
Shipwreck Remain
Submarine