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The reason was obvious.
As Grass put it in a recent interview with the weekly Die Woche: "Because the crimes we Germans are responsible for were and are so dominant, we didn’t have the energy left to tell of our own sufferings."
The long silence about the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was probably unavoidable — and necessary. By unreservedly owning up to their country’s monstrous crimes in the Second World War, Germans have managed to win acceptance abroad, marginalize (使……不得势) the neo-Nazis at home and make peace with their neighbors. Today’s unified Germany is more prosperous and stable than at any time in its long, troubled history. For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay. But even the most politically correct Germans believe that they’ve now earned the right to discuss the full historical record. Not to equate German suffering with that of its victims, but simply to acknowledge a terrible tragedy.
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Why does the author say the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff was the worst tragedy in maritime history?
A) It happened in the final winter of World War II.
B) It caused the largest number of casualties.
C) Most of its passengers were frozen to death.
D) Its victims were mostly women, children and old people.
正确答案： B
37.
Hundreds of families dropped into the sea when ________.
A) the badly damaged ship leaned toward one side
B) the deck was frozen by an ice storm
C) the cruise ship was attacked by Russian torpedoes
D) the frightened passengers fought desperately for lifeboats
正确答案： A
38.
The Wilhelm Gustloff tragedy was little talked about for more than half a century because Germans ________.
A) were eager to win international acceptance
B) had been forced to keep silent about it
C) were afraid of facing the terrible past
D) felt guilty for their crimes in World War II
正确答案： D
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