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  3. It was the worst tragedy in【C1】______history, six times more deadly than the

It was the worst tragedy in【C1】______history, six times more deadly than the

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问题     It was the worst tragedy in【C1】______history, six times more deadly than the Titanic.
    When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes【C2】______from a Russian submarine in the final winter of World War II, more than 10,000 people—mostly women, children and old people【C3】______the final Red Army【C4】______into Nazi Germany—were【C5】______aboard. An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families【C6】______into the sea as the ship【C7】______and began to go down. Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down. Some, who succeeded, fought【C8】______those in the water【C9】______had the strength to try to【C10】______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【C11】______the ship, brightly lit, slipping into its dark grave— and into seeming【C12】______, rarely mentioned for more than half a century.
    Now Germany’s Nobel Prize-winning author Gtinter Grass has【C13】______the memory of the 9,000 dead, including more than 4,000 children【C14】______his latest novel Crab Walk, published last month. The book, which will【C15】______in English next year, doesn’t【C16】______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【C17】______it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so【C18】______, we didn’t have the energy left to【C19】______our own【C20】______." [br] 【C20】
选项 A、agony
B、sufferings
C、anguish
D、pains
答案 B
解析 词义辨析题 agony[U，C]“(精神或肉体的)极大痛苦”；suffering[U]“(肉体或内心的)痛苦”，[pl．]“苦恼，折磨；引起这种感觉的事或物”；anguish[U]“(肉体的或精神的)极度痛苦”；pain[C]“令人厌烦的人或事物，[U](肉体上的)疼，痛，疼痛”。文章意思为“无暇谈及我们自己的痛苦”，此处是指令他们痛苦的事，如本文提及的海难，故选B。
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