CLOZE TEST
Read the text and complete the chart below with a word from the list that
comes after the text. Every word can only be used ONCE. There are SEVEN words
that you do not need to use. Question 0 has been answered as an example.
TITANIC
RMS [1]Titanic was a British passenger liner [2]that sank in the North
Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after 0) COLLIDING with an iceberg
during her 1) __________ voyage from Southampton, England to New York City. The
sinking of Titanic caused the deaths of 1,514 people in one of the 2)
__________ peacetime maritime disasters in history. She was the largest ship
afloat of the time. One of three Olympic class ocean liners operated by
the White Star Line, she was built between 1909–11 by the Harland and
Wolff 3) __________ in Belfast. She carried 2,224 people.
Her passengers included some of the 4) __________ people in the world, as
well as over a thousand emigrants from Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and
elsewhere seeking a new life in North America. The ship was designed to be the
last word in comfort and luxury, with an on-board gymnasium, swimming pool,
libraries, high-class restaurants and opulent cabins. She also had a powerful
wireless telegraph provided for the convenience of passengers as well as for
operational use. 5) __________ she had advanced safety features such as
watertight compartments and remotely activated watertight doors, she lacked
enough lifeboats to accommodate all of those aboard. Due to 6) __________
maritime safety regulations, she carried only enough lifeboats for
1,178 people – a third of her total passenger and crew capacity.
After leaving Southampton on 10 April 1912, Titanic called at
Cherbourg in France and Queenstown (now Cobh) in Ireland before 7) __________
westwards towards New York. On 14 April 1912, four days into the crossing and
about 375 miles south of Newfoundland, she hit an iceberg at 11:40 pm. The
glancing [3]collision caused Titanic‘s
hull plates to buckle [4]inwards in a number of
locations on her starboard side and opened five of her sixteen watertight
compartments to the sea. Over the next two and a half hours, the ship gradually
filled with water and sank. Passengers and some crew members were evacuated in
lifeboats, many of which were 8) __________ only partly filled. A
disproportionate number of men – over 90% of those in Second Class – were left
aboard due to a “women and children first” protocol followed by the officers
loading the lifeboats. Just before 2:20 am Titanic broke up and
sank bow-first with over a thousand people still on board. Those in the water
died 9) __________ minutes from hypothermia caused by immersion in the freezing
ocean. The 710 survivors were taken aboard from the lifeboats by the RMS Carpathia
a few hours later.
The disaster was 10) __________ with worldwide shock and outrage at the
huge loss of life and the regulatory and operational failures that had led to
it. Public inquiries in Britain and the United States led to major improvements
in maritime safety. One of their most important legacies was the establishment
in 1914 of the International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS),
which still governs maritime safety today. Many of the survivors lost all of
their money and possessions and were left 11) __________; many families,
particularly those of crew members from Southampton, lost their primary 12)
__________. They were helped by an outpouring of public sympathy and charitable
donations. Some of the male survivors, notably the White Star Line’s chairman,
J. Bruce Ismay, were accused of cowardice for leaving the ship while people
were still on board, and they faced social ostracism.
The 13) __________ of the Titanic remains on the seabed, gradually
disintegrating at a depth of 12,415 feet (3,784 m). Since its rediscovery
in 1985, thousands of artifacts have been recovered from the sea bed and put on
14) __________ at museums around the world. Titanic has become one of
the most famous ships in history, her memory kept alive by numerous books,
films, exhibits and memorials.
ANTIQUE
DESTITUTE INAUGURAL
OUTDATED THOUGH
BREADWINNERS
DISPLAY
LAUNCHED
PRIME
WEALTHIEST
DEADLIEST
HEADING
MAIDEN
TERRIFIC WRECK
[1] Royal Mail Ship
[2] A large commercial ship or
airplane, especially one carrying passengers on a regular route.
[3] Oblique in direction;
slanting or deflected.
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