单项选择题
| The report came to the British on May
21, 1941. The German battleship Bismarck, the mot (36)
warship in the world, was moving out into the Atlantic Ocean. Her task was to
destroy the ships (37) supplies from the United States to
warn-torn England. The British (38) such a task. No warship
they had could (39) the Bismarck in (40)
or in firepower. The Bismarck had eight 15-inch guns and 81 smaller guns. She
could move at 30 nautical mile (海里) an hour. She was believed to be unsinkable.
However, the British had to (41) her. They sent out a task
force (42) by their best battleship Hood to hunt down the
Bismarck. On May 24, the Hood found the Bismarck. It was a (43) that the German commander (指挥官)did not want to see. His orders were (44) the British ships that were carrying (45) , but to stay away from a fight with British warships. The battle didn’t last long. The Bismarck’s first torpedo (鱼雷) (46) the Hood, which went down taking all but three of her 1,419 men with her. But in the (47) , the Bismarck was slightly damaged. Her commander decided to run for repairs (48) France, which had (49) been taken by the German. The British force (50) her. (51) , because of the Bismarck’s speed and the (52) fog, they lost (53) of her. For two days, every British ship in the Atlantic (54) find the Bismarck, but with no success. Finally, she was sighted by a plane from Ireland. Trying to slow the Bismarck (55) so that their ships could catch up with her, the British fired at her from the air. The Bismarck was hit. On the morning of May 27th, the last battle was fought. Four British ships fired on the Bismarck, and she was finally sunk. |