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A boy named Jeremiah Burke, 19, threw a water bottle with a note in it while the Titanic sank(下沉). N...
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A boy named Jeremiah Burke, 19, threw a water bottle with a note in it while the Titanic sank(下沉). Now the note is in the Heritage Centre(遗产中心) in Cork.
Jeremiah Burke’s mother gave the bottle to him before he left for the US. As the Titanic sank in the early hours of 15 April, 1912, he threw the bottle with the note into the sea.
The bottle was found a year later on the beach. The note read “From Titanic, goodbye all, Burke of Glanmire, Cork.” Burke’s family kept it for about a hundred years. Now one of Jeremiah’s nieces(侄女), Mary Woods, has given it to the Heritage Centre in Cork. She said Jeremiah Burke was travelling to America with his cousin Nora Hegarty, 18, to meet his two sisters. But both Jeremiah Burke and Nora Hegarty lost their lives. The ship carried 2,208 people on its first trip, but only 705 people survived(幸存) at last.
1. threw the bottle with the note into the sea when the Titanic sank.
A. Jeremiah Burke B. Mary Woods
C. Nora Hegarty D. Jeremiah’s mother
2.Jeremiah Burke was travelling to America to .
A. find a job B. meet his mother
C. take a vacation D. meet his sisters
3. people lost their lives in this accident(事故).
A. 705 B. 1,503 C. 1,178 D. 2,208
4.From this passage we know .
A. the note in the water bottle told the reason why the Titanic sank
B. Jeremiah Burke travelled to America with his niece
C. the Titanic was on its first trip when it sank
D. the note in the water bottle was in the Heritage Centre in Cork in 1912
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