1 Under the sea 1
2 The biggest ship in the world 3
3 A city on the sea 6
4 Iceberg! 10
5 CQD emergency! 13
6 Nobody is listening 16
7 Into the lifeboats 19
8 In the cold, dark sea 24
9 The Carpathia and the Californian 29
10 Life after the Titanic 34
11 Finding the Titanic 37
GLOSSARY 41
ACTIVITIES: Before Reading 43
ACTIVITIES: While Reading 44
ACTIVITIES: After Reading 48
TRANSLATION 参考译文 51
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In April 1912 the Titanic arrived in Southampton in the south of England. Everyone was excited about the new ship. It was the biggest ship in the world, the most beautiful, perhaps the fastest. And it was much safer than older ships, because it had sixteen compartments with emergency doors. The new ship had radio too. Passengers could send messages from the ship to their friends at home!
Captain Smith and his officers and sailors were ready. Then the passengers came millionaires, young people, families of six, people from more than forty different countries. Many of them wanted to begin a new life in America.
So the Titanic went to Cherbourg in France, then Queenstown in Ireland, and then left for New York. There were 2,208 people on the ship, but there were lifeboats for only half of them. But that did not matter. The Titanic was unsinkable...
1912年4月,"泰坦尼克"号抵达英格兰南部的南安普敦。这艘新建成的船只令所有人都兴奋不已。它是当时世界上最大、最美的船只,其航行速度可能也是最快的。而且,它比以往的船只要更加安全,因为它有16间带安全门的水密舱。这艘新建的船只还配有无线电,乘客可以在船上向家里的朋友发送消息!
史密斯船长和他的船员、水手们都已整装待发。随后,乘客们也陆续登船,其中有百万富翁、年轻人、六口之家,这些人来自40多个不同的国家。他们当中很多人都想在美国开启新的生活。
于是,"泰坦尼克"号启航了,途经法国瑟堡、爱尔兰昆士敦,然后驶向纽约。船上有2,208人,然而配备的救生船只能搭载全船人数的一半。不过这并不要紧,"泰坦尼克"号是不可能沉没的