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DỊCH HOÀN THIỆN ĐỀ THI IELTS READING VÀ GIẢI THÍCH ĐÁP ÁN:
Lessons from the Titanic
A From the comfort of our modern lives we tend to look back at the turn of the twentieth century as a dangerous time for sea travellers. With limited communication facilities, and shipping technology still in its infancy in the early nineteen hundreds, we consider ocean travel to have been a risky business. But to the people of the time, it was one of the safest forms of transport. At the time of the Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912, there had only been four lives lost in the previous forty years on passenger ships on the North Atlantic crossing. And the Titanic was confidently proclaimed to be unsinkable. She represented the pinnacle of technological advance at the time. Her builders, crew and passengers had no doubt that she was the finest ship ever built. But still, she did sink on April 14, 1912, taking 1,517 of her passengers and crew with her.
Từ sự tiện nghi của cuộc sống hiện đại chúng ta có xu hướng nhìn về thời điểm chuyển giao của thế kỷ 20 như một thời điểm nguy hiểm đối với những người đi biển. Với các phương tiện liên lạc hạn chế, và công nghệ tàu thuyền vẫn còn sơ khai vào những năm đầu 1900, chúng ta xem du lịch biển là một việc mạo hiểm. Nhưng đối với những người thời đó, nó là một trong những hình thức giao thông an toàn nhất. Tại thời điểm hành trình đầu tiên của Titanic vào năm 1912, chỉ có 4 người thiệt mạng trên chuyến tàu chở khách băng qua Bắc Đại Tây Dương bốn mươi năm trước đó. Và Titanic được tự tin tuyên bố là không thể chìm. Nó đại diện cho đỉnh cao của tiến bộ công nghệ ở thời điểm này. Những người tạo ra nó, phi hành đoàn và các hành khách không hề nghi ngờ rằng nó là con tàu tốt nhất từng được đóng. Nhưng ấy thế mà nó đã chìm vào 14 tháng 4 năm 1912 mang theo 1517 hành khách và phi hành đoàn cùng với nó.
B The RMS Titanic left Southampton for New York on April 10, 1912. Onboard were some of the richest and most famous people of the time who had paid large sums of money to sail on the first voyage of the most luxurious ship in the world. Imagine her placed on her end: she was larger at 269 metres than many of the tallest buildings of the day. And with nine decks, she was as high as an eleven storey building. The Titanic carried 329 first-class, 285-second class and 710 third-class passengers with 899 crew members, under the care of the very experienced Captain Edward J. Smith. She also carried enough food to feed a small town, including 40,000 fresh eggs, 36,000 apples, 111,000 lbs of fresh meat and 2,200 lbs of coffee for the five-day journey.
Con tàu RMS Titanic rời Southampton để đến New York vào ngày 10 tháng 4 năm 1912. Trên tàu là trong số những người giàu có nhất và nổi tiếng nhất của thời đại những người đã trả một số tiền lớn để ra khơi trên chuyến hành trình đầu tiên của con tàu sang trọng nhất trên thế giới. Tưởng tượng con tàu được dựng đứng từ đuôi tàu lên: nó dài 269m, dài hơn độ cao của nhiều tòa nhà cao nhất ngày đó. Và với 9 tầng, nó cao bằng một tòa nhà 11 tầng. Con tàu Titanic chở 329 hành khách hạng nhất, 285 hạng nhì và 710 hạng ba với 899 thành viên thủ đoàn, dưới sự quan tâm chăm sóc của Thuyền trưởng rất kinh nghiệm Edward J. Smith. Nó cũng mang đủ thức ăn để nuôi một thị trấn nhỏ bao gồm 40.000 cái trứng tươi sống, 36.000 quả táo, 11.000 pound thịt tươi sống và 2.200 pound cà phê cho hành trình 5 ngày.
C RMS Titanic was believed to be unsinkable because the hull was divided into sixteen watertight compartments. Even if two of these compartments flooded, the ship could still float. The ship’s owners could not imagine that, in the case of an accident, the Titanic would not be able to float until she was rescued. It was largely as a result of this confidence in the ship and in the safety of ocean travel that the disaster could claim such a great loss of life.
D In the ten hours prior to the Titanic’s fatal collision with an iceberg at 11.40 pm, six warnings of icebergs in her path were received by the Titanic's wireless operators. Only one of these messages was formally posted on the bridge; the others were in various locations across the ship. If the combined information in these messages of iceberg positions had been plotted, the ice field which lay across the Titanic’s path would have been apparent. Instead, the lack of formal procedures for dealing with information from a relatively new piece of technology, the wireless, meant that the danger was not known until too late. This was not the fault of the Titanic crew. Procedures for dealing with warnings received through the wireless had not been formalised across the shipping industry at the time. The fact that the wireless operators were not even Titanic crew, but rather contracted workers from a wireless company, made their role in the ship’s operation quite unclear.
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E Captain Smith’s seemingly casual attitude in increasing the speed on this day to a dangerous 22 knots or 41 kilometres per hour, can then be partly explained by his ignorance of what lay ahead. But this only partly accounts for his actions, since the spring weather in Greenland was known to cause huge chunks of ice to break off from the glaciers. Captain Smith knew that these icebergs would float southward and had already acknowledged this danger by taking a more southerly route than at other times of the year. So why was the Titanic travelling at high speed when he knew, if not of the specific risk, at least of the general risk of icebergs in her path? As with the lack of coordination of the wireless messages, it was simply standard operating procedure at the time. Captain Smith was following the practices accepted on the North Atlantic, practices which had coincided with forty years of safe travel. He believed, wrongly as we now know, that the ship could turn or stop in time if an iceberg was sighted by the lookouts.
F There were around two and a half hours between the time the Titanic rammed into the iceberg and its final submersion. In this time 705 people were loaded into the twenty lifeboats. There were 473 empty seats available on lifeboats while over 1,500 people drowned. These figures raise two important issues. Firstly, why there were not enough lifeboats to seat every passenger and crew member on board. And secondly, why the lifeboats were not full.
G 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, Alexander Carlisle, had proposed that forty-eight lifeboats be installed on the Titanic, but the idea had been quickly rejected as too expensive. The discussion then turned to the ship’s décor, and as Carlisle later described the incident … ’we spent two hours discussing carpet for the first-class cabins and fifteen minutes discussing lifeboats’.
H The belief that the Titanic was unsinkable was so strong that passengers and crew alike clung to the belief even as she was actually sinking. This attitude was not helped by Captain Smith, who had not acquainted his senior officers with the full situation. For the first hour after the collision, the majority of people aboard the Titanic, including senior crew, were not aware that she would sink, that there were insufficient lifeboats or that the nearest ship responding to the Titanic’s distress calls would arrive two hours after she was on the bottom of the ocean. As a result, the officers in charge of loading the boats received a very halfhearted response to their early calls for women and children to board the lifeboats. People felt that they would be safer, and certainly warmer, aboard the Titanic than perched in a little boat in the North Atlantic Ocean. Not realising the magnitude of the impending disaster themselves, the officers allowed several boats to be lowered only half full.
I Procedures again were at fault, as an additional reason for the officers’ reluctance to lower the lifeboats at full capacity was that they feared the lifeboats would buckle under the weight of 65 people. They had not been informed that the lifeboats had been fully tested prior to departure. Such procedures as assigning passengers and crew to lifeboats and lifeboat loading drills were simply not part of the standard operation of ships nor were they included in crew training at this time.
J As the Titanic sank, another ship, believed to have been the Californian, was seen motionless less than twenty miles away. The ship failed to respond to the Titanic’s eight distress rockets. Although the officers of the Californian tried to signal the Titanic with their flashing Morse lamp, they did not wake up their radio operator to listen for a distress call. At this time, communication at sea through wireless was new and the benefits not well appreciated, so the wireless on ships was often not operated around the clock. In the case of the Californian, the wireless operator slept unaware while 1,500 Titanic passengers and crew drowned only a few miles away.
K After the Titanic sank, investigations were held in both Washington and London. In the end, both inquiries decided that no one could be blamed for the sinking. However, they did address the fundamental safety issues which had contributed to the enormous loss of life. As a result, international agreements were drawn up to improve safety procedures at sea. The new regulations covered 24-hour wireless operation, crew training, proper lifeboat drills, lifeboat capacity for all on board and the creation of an international ice patrol.
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Questions 27-40
Complete the summary below. Choose your answers from the box at the bottom of the page and write them in boxes 1-8 on your answer sheet.
NB There are more words than spaces so you will not use them all. You may use any of the words more than once.
List of Words
passengers happy float advanced
lifeboats confident dangers ocean
worried inadequate enormous excitement
fast handbook water afloat
record fast procedures orders
drown size sink safety
The Finest Ship Ever Built
The North Atlantic Ocean crossing on the Titanic was expected to set a new standard for ...…(27)...… travel in terms of comfort and .......(28)....… The shipping industry had an excellent safety ...…(29)….... on the North Atlantic Crossing over the previous forty years and the Titanic was the finest and safest liner ever built. The Titanic combined the greatest technology of the day with sheer …....(30)....…, luxury and new safety features. The Titanic’s owners were …(31)… that even if the Titanic were letting in …....(32)....… she would .........(33) … indefinitely until help arrived. In hindsight, we know that the Titanic was not unsinkable and that technology alone could not save lives when facilities were …....(34)...… and humans did not follow safe ....…(35)....… whether because of arrogance or ignorance.
Questions 36-40
Choose the heading which best sums up the primary cause of the problem described in paragraphs D, E, G, H and I of the text.
Write the appropriate numbers (i – x) in the boxes ( 36-40) on your answer sheet.
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List of Headings |
36. Paragraph D
37. Paragraph E
38. Paragraph G
39. Paragraph H
40. Paragraph I
ĐÁP ÁN, GIẢI CHI TIẾT và DỊCH HOÀN THIỆN ĐỀ THI IELTS READING:
Lessons from the Titanic
Questions 27-35
Complete the summary below. Choose your answers from the box at the bottom of the page and write them in boxes 27-35 on your answer sheet.
NB There are more words than spaces so you will not use them all. You may use any of the words more than once.
List of Words
passengers happy float advanced
lifeboats confident dangers ocean
worried inadequate enormous excitement
fast handbook water afloat
record fast procedures orders
drown size sink safety
The Finest Ship Ever Built/ Con tàu đẹp nhất từng được xây dựng
The North Atlantic Ocean crossing on the Titanic was expected to set a new standard for ...…ocean (27)...… travel in terms of comfort and ....safety...(28)....…
Vượt qua biển Bắc Đại Tây Dương trên tàu Titanic được dự đoán đặt ra một tiêu chuẩn mới cho du lịch đại dương về mặt tiện nghi và an toàn
Giải thích: đoạn A
we consider ocean travel to have been a risky business
But to the people of the time, it was one of the safest forms of transport.
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The shipping industry had an excellent safety ...…(29) record ….... on the North Atlantic Crossing over the previous forty years and the Titanic was the finest and safest liner ever built.
Ngành công nghiệp tàu có lý lịch an toàn tuyệt với khi băng qua Bắc Đại Tây Dương trong 40 năm qua và Titanic là con tàu thủy an toàn và tinh xảo nhất tửng được xây
Giải thích: đoạn A
At the time of the Titanic’s maiden voyage in 1912, there had only been four lives lost in the previous forty years on passenger ships on the North Atlantic crossing ( =record). And the Titanic was confidently proclaimed to be unsinkable.
Questions 36-40
Choose the heading which best sums up the primary cause of the problem described in paragraphs D, E, G, H and I of the text.
Write the appropriate numbers (i – x) in the boxes ( 36-40) on your answer sheet.
36. Paragraph D/ vi Iceberg locations not plotted
Giải thích:
If the combined information in these messages of iceberg positions had been plotted, the ice field which lay across the Titanic’s path would have been apparent
37. Paragraph E/ iii Captain’s over-confidence.
Giải thích:
Captain Smith was following the practices accepted on the North Atlantic, practices which had coincided with forty years of safe travel. He believed, wrongly as we now know, that the ship could turn or stop in time if an iceberg was sighted by the lookouts.
38. Paragraph G/ vii Low priority placed on safety
Giải thích:
’we spent two hours discussing carpet for the first-class cabins and fifteen minutes discussing lifeboats’.
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Answer:
27. ocean
28. safety
29. record
30. size
31 confident
32. water
33. float
34. inadequate
35. procedures
36. vi
37. iii
38. vii
39. i
40. ix
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