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   In the old days divers used to go down into the sea looking for ships that had sunk, because they hoped to find gold and jewels. Now divers still search for valuable things in sunken ships, but they also try to bring to the surface the ships themselves, or parts of them. The value of different kinds of metals has increased greatly over the last twenty or thirty years and even though a ship has been under the sea for many years, it may be worth a great deal.

   One famous sunken ship is the “Lusitania”, which sank off the southern coast of Ireland in 1915 with a loss of nearly 1,500 lives. It had four huge propellers(螺旋桨) made of expensive metal. Today each of those propellers is worth $ 1,200,000 for the whole ship. He hopes to bring up those propellers and sell them. He also hopes to sell other parts of the ship, when he has brought them to the surface, for about $600,000.

(1)Divers today try to bring to the surface ______.

[  ]

Agold and jewels Bparts of ships

Cwhole ships Dall of the above

(2)Divers try to bring up metals because ______.

[  ]

Athey have been in the sea for a long time

Bgold and jewels are not valuable things

Csome kinds of metals are worth a lot of money today

Dmetals become better after they have been in the sea

(3)The word “surface” in the passage means the ______.

[  ]

Amarket Bsea

Ctop Dlight

(4)John Light thinks that he may be able to sell all the parts of the “Lusitania” for about ______.

[  ]

A$ 12,000 B$ 300,000

C$ 1,200,000 D$ 1,800,000

(5)John Light bought the “Lusitania” ______.

[  ]

Abefore it sank

Bafter it sank

Cafter it had been brought to the surface

Dafter he had brought up the propellers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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