外刊阅读泰坦尼克号幸存者学案-2023届高三英语二轮复习

主题语境：历史与政治 体裁：记叙文 阅读建议时长：7min 原文出处：5 Minute History 词数：307 难度：★★★★ 文章导读： 泰坦尼克号被誉为“永不沉没”的轮船，却在其“处女航”时沉没。这次海难夺去了1500多人的生命，仅仅700多人幸存。跟随幸存者的叙述，一起回顾这段传奇的历史！ Charles Lightoller, the Officer Who Went Down With the Ship 泰坦尼克号幸存者 As the lifeboats were launched, second officer Charles Lightoller observed the  “women and children first” rule so aggressively that he sometimes let lifeboats go into the water with empty seats rather than let any men occupy them. Reports said that Lightoller ordered male passengers trying to step onto lifeboats out at gunpoint while screaming,  “Get out of there!” Whatever people said about Lightoller in the disaster later, they couldn’t call him     a hypocrite    . He himself truly lived by his moral standards. The second officer intended to go down with the ship— and very nearly did. He was on the Titanic① as it slipped underwater, at the bitter end, when there were no lifeboats left.           Feet below the surface, he was trapped when the ship’s boiler exploded, sending up a sudden strong air flow that carried him to the surface.           Afterward, he swam to an overturned boat where 30 or so people clung to life. He joined them and showed them how to shift their weight to keep the big swells from the sinking ship from drowning their small boat. Together, they survived the night, and Lightoller was the last survivor to set foot on the rescue ship that reached them at dawn. In the inquiries that followed, it turned out that Lightoller’s lifeboat policy wasn’t as hard-nosed as it seemed. Doubting the strength of the lifeboats’ davits②, he intended to fill the remaining empty seats on the lifeboats once the boats had safely reached the waterline. But the men assigned to the task of lowering the lifeboats into the water drowned before they could accomplish their mission. This resulted in some lifeboats leaving with empty seats. Later, Lightoller made a number of recommendations for better safety measures and tighter regulations that