Millvina Dean, Titanic’s last Survivor(幸存者), died on May 31,2009 at a nursing home(疗养院) in Southampton.. She was 97 and had been in poor health for several weeks. Ms Dean was the youngest among the ship’s 705 survivors. She was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic sank on the night of April 14, 1912. She survived with her mother and her 2-year-old brother. Her father, Bertram Dean, died in the sinking. Millvina Dean never married. For many years after the sinking,she never spoke of it to people around her. But that changed after September 1, 1985 when the wreck(残骸)of the Titanic was discovered. That set off a wave of interest in the ship, especially after the movie Titanic.“They found the wreck and after that, they found me,” she said. In the last 20 years of her life, she went to the US, Canada and Europe to take part in events related to the sinking. She said all that she knew of what happened during the sinking was learned from her mother. She moved to the nursing home because of her falling health. In order to pay the living costs there,she began to sell her Titanic souvenirs(纪念品). Ms Dean had never seen the movie Titanic. She explains the movie would make her think of what had happened to her father, so she didn’t want to see it. 小题1:Millvina Dean was _______ when the Titanic sank.
A. leave B. start C. improve D record 小题4:Millvina Dean didn’t say anything about the Titanic until _______.
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