How many of you have ever watched it? Please raise your hand. Wow, quite a few! /so much!

I guess all of you already know “you jump,I jump” and a widespread picture that two major roles embraced each other on the ship’s bow.

Well, today, I don’t want to tell you thetrue love story but something else.


For the temporary recruit stuff, lackingthe evacuation [ɪˌvækjʊ'eɪʃn]( send them to a place of safety, away from adangerous building, town, or area.) drill, so many life boats are not up to themaximum load capacity [kəˈpæsəti]. More than 1500 people lost in the coldwater.  750survivors


Estimate numbers

乘号multiply  [ˈmʌltiplai]

16个:It was regard asunsinkable, for she had sixteenwater-tight compartments. Even if two of these were flooded, she would still beable to float. She can afford 4 flooded. However, it turned to be 5 after the collidingwith an iceberg.

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Here arehis expressions showing his inward changes.

1 when titanic began speeding, his eye overlook the vast ocean with joy.The oral test preparation_ide_02

2 when he went downstairs to see what was going on.

3,4 when he known the ship was mean to sink.

5 ordered to send signals to other pass-by ship for help with his hat off.The oral test preparation_sed_03

6 thisone, the second deck is about to flooded, he just ignored the life jacket and walked into the compartment.

7 The captain went down with the ship in deep sorrow.The oral test preparation_ide_04


The four violinists

1 the captain order them to play some brisk episode, they were playing wedding dance.

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2 one of them wondered “What’s the use,nobody listened to this anyway.”

Another violinist respond: “Come on, let’s play, keep this warm.” Then they continued.

3 the song was over. Three of them said goodbye to him and leave, however,

4 they were all back

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5 they continued playing till the last minute. They used music to comfort people, even though it seemed useless, they still done it for the dignity as artists. Also they were making room for women and children. It showed their respect for music.

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Margaret "Maggie" Brown (néeTobin) (July 18, 1867 – October 26, 1932) (posthumously known as "TheUnsinkable Molly Brown"), was an American socialite [ˈsəʊʃəlaɪt],philanthropist, and activist.

She became famous as Titanic’s survival.

New money: Her husband searched a huge gold source, so she was leisure and rich.

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New money refers to people whose wealth has been acquired within their own generation,rather than by familial inheritance. a lower socialclass and economic stratum (rank) within that class; andthat the new money—which constitutes his or her wealth—allowed upward socialmobility and provided the means for conspicuous[kənˈspɪkjuəs](显然的,惹人注意的)consumption, the buying of goods and services that signal member ship in an upper class.


Old money (sometimesreferred to as Family Cash, Family Money, or "vieux riche") is"the inherited wealth of established upper-class families (i.e. gentry,patriciate)"or "a person, family, or lineage [ˈlɪniɪdʒ](血统) possessinginherited wealth".


She exhorted the crew to return to the capsize [kæpˈsaɪz](沉船) site to look for survivors. It was an heroic[hiˈrəuik] action while other people just sitting in the lifeboat and careless for anything else.The oral test preparation_sed_09

It is unclear whether the boat actually returned to look for survivors, and if so, if any survivors were found.

After her death, a 1960 Broadway musical based on her life and its 1964 film adaptation were each entitled The Unsinkable Molly Brown.


As a rich and leisure woman, she had contributed her time and money in various social and political issues. She worked with George Benjamin Lindsay, the establishment of the first juvenile[ˈdʒu:vənaɪl] court, the court eventually became the foundation of Americanjuvenile|ˈdʒu:vənaɪ| justice system. She is an active advocate of feminism[ˈfemənɪzəm], is to promote democracy(民众; 民主), a memberof the education and save women's "Denver women's Club". From April14, 1912 to 15 day and night, let her rise to fame.


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The author MorganRobertson  a novel called Futility in 1898 about a fictional British passenger liner with the plot bearing a number of similarities to the Titanic disaster. In the novel the ship is the SS Titan,a four-stacked liner, the largest in the world and considered unsinkable. Butlike the Titanic, she sinks on her maiden[verification needed] voyage after hitting an iceberg and does not have enough lifeboats.[255]


Wreck (damage or destroy)

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