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高考英语外刊阅读模拟强化训练 七选五专题二十九 ① Five crew members on-board the submersible Titan were probably killed instantly by a “catastrophic implosion” as it descended to the wreck of the Titanic two miles below the surface of the Atlantic. A large debris field containing sections of the vessel had been spotted on the sea bed earlier in the day by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) scouring the area near the Titanic wreck site 400 miles south of St John’s, Newfoundland. “______1____,” official Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters. “I offer my deepest condolences to the families. I can only imagine what this has been like for them.” ______2___. The 6.7-metre vessel went missing on Sunday, one hour and 45 minutes into its scheduled 11-hour dive. OceanGate acknowledged their deaths in a statement on Twitter: “These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans. _____3______. A vehicle from the Canadian vessel Horizon Arctic was the first to reach the seabed yesterday morning, joined later by another from the French ship L’Atalante. Also arriving at the site was a Canadian navy vessel carrying a hyperbaric recompression chamber with capacity for six people. Five “major pieces” of debris from the submersible had been recovered. “The initial thing we found was the nose cone, which was outside of the pressure hull. “We then found a large debris field, within that debris field we found the front-end bell of the pressure hull. _____4_____.” Carl Hartsville of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution told.. Nicolai Roterman, a deep-sea ecologist and lecturer in marine biology at the University of Portsmouth, told the Associated Press the Titan’s disappearance highlighted the uncertainties of deep-sea tourism. “Even the most reliable technology can fail, and therefore accidents will happen. _____5_____,” he said. 【The Guardian (June 23, 2023)】 A.Tragic news that those on the Titan submersible have