[填空题]The owners of Titanic provided lifeboats for only 950 passengers which were far from enough because______.

[填空题]The owners of Titanic provided lifeboats for only 950 passengers which were far from enough because______.

[单项选择]The Titanic had sixteen lifeboats, and four collapsible boats which could carry just over half the number of people on board her maiden voyage and only a third of the Titanic’s total capacity. Regulations for the number of lifeboats required were based on outdated British Board of Trade regulations written in 1894 for ships a quarter of the Titanic’s size. and had never been revised. Under these requirements, the Titanic was only obliged to carry enough lifeboats to seat 962 people. At design meetings in 1910 ,the shipyard’s managing director had proposed that forty eight lifeboats be installed on the Titanic, but the idea had been quickly rejected as too expensive. Discussion then turned to the ship’s decor, and as the director later described the incident, "We spent two hours discussing carpet for the first Class cabin and fifteen minutes discussing lifeboats".
What did the director mean by saying" We spent two hours discussing carpet for the first class cabin and fifteen minute
A. Carpet for the first class cabin was a very important issue in the design of Titanic.
B. Not enough attention had been paid to safety in the designing of Titanic.
C. The designers had no idea of the dangers Titanic would be exposed to.
D. The designers were careful with the design of’ Titani

[填空题]Titanic was not only the largest but also the most technically advanced at her day.

[单项选择]
What service is provided only in the afternoon
A. (A) Renewal of driver’s licenses.
B. (B) Applications for new driver’s licenses.
C. (C) Driving tests.
D. (D) Blood tests.

[填空题]The Titanic

[单项选择]When did Titanic sink
A. In 1908.
B. In 1912.
C. In 2002.
D. In 2008.

[单项选择]Where did the Titanic sink
A. The South Atlantic.
B. The North Atlantic.
C. The North Pacific.
D. The South Pacifi

[填空题]Where is the Titanic now

[单项选择]As there were ______ lifeboats for everybody, 40 lives were lost.
A. as little
B. so little
C. too few
D. very few

[单项选择]Where was the destination of Titanic
A. London.
B. Washington.
C. Southampton.
D. New York.

[填空题]On which day did the Titanic sink

[单项选择]Since the Titanic vanished beneath the frigid waters of the North Atlantic 85 years ago, nothing in the hundreds of books and films about the ship has ever hinted at a connection to Japan -- until now. Director James Cameron’s ’200 million epic Titanic premiered at the Tokyo International Fihn Festival last Saturday. Among the audience for a glimpse of Hollywood’s costliest film ever descendants of the liner’s only Japanese survivor.
The newly rediscovered diary of Masabumix Hosono has Titanic enthusiasts in a frenzy, the document is scrawled in 4,300 Japanese character on a rare piece of RMS Titanic stationery. Written as the Japanese bureaucrat steamed to safety in New York aboard the ocean liner Carpathia, which rescued 706 survivors, the account and other documents released by his grandchildren last week offer a fresh -- and poignant -- reminder of the emotional wreckage left by the tragedy.
Hosono, then 42 and an official at Japan’s Transportation Ministry, was studying