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阅读理解精炼（1） It s the worst eve nt in huma n being s n autical （航海的） history , six times more deadly than the Titanic . When the German cruise ship Wilhelm Gustloff was hit by torpedoes （鱼雷） fired from a Russia n submari ne in the final win ter of World War II , more than 10,000 people — mostly women , children and old people fleeing the final Red Army push into Nazi Germany - were packed aboard . An ice storm had turned the decks into frozen sheets that sent hundreds of families sliding into the sea as the ship tilted and began to go down . Others desperately tried to put lifeboats down . Some