【正文】 tory. Memories In September, 1940, my mother, sister and I went to Swansea, where my father’s ship was getting ready to sail. We brought him a family photograph to be kept with him at all times and keep him safe. Then I remember my mother lying face down, sobbing. She had heard from a friend that the ship had been sunk by a torpedo (魚雷 ). I can remember the arrival of the telegram (電報 ), which in those days always brought bad news. My grandmother opened it. It read, “Safe. Love Ted.” My most vivid memory is being woken and brought down to sit on my father’s knee, his arm in a bandage. He was judged unfit to return to sea and took a shore job in Glasgow for the rest of the war. For as long as I can remember, he had a weak heart. Mother said it was caused by the torpedoes. He said it was because of the cigarettes. Whichever, he died suddenly in his early 50s. Ten years later I read Night of the Uboats and was able to plete the story. Torpedo One torpedo struck the ship. Father was in the engine room, where the third engineer was killed. He shut down the engines to show the ship making it easier for it to be abandoned. By the time he got on deck(甲板 ) he was alone. Every lifeboat was gone except one which had stuck fast. When he tried, cut it free, it swung against the ship, injuring his hand. He had no choice but to jump—still with the photograph in his pocket. Three days later, he and other survivors were safe in Glasgow. All 23 with him signed the back of the photograph. A Toast Wesley 4 In my room is the book and the photograph. Often, glass in hand, I have wondered how I would have dealt with an explosion, a sinking ship, a jump into a vast ocean and a wait for rescue? Lest(以免 )we fet, I have some more whisky and toast the heroes of the war. 61. We can infer that the mother and children went to Swansea________. A. to meet a friend B. to see the father off C. to take a family photo D. to enjoy the sailing of the ship 62. What did the author learn about the father from the telegram? A. He was still alive B. His knee was broken C. His ship had been sunk D. He had arrived in Glasgow. 63. The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 6 refers to the father’s________. A. weak heart B. taking a shore job C. failure to return to sea D. injury caused by a torpedo 64. What can we know about the author’s father after his ship was attached? A. He lost his arm. B. He repaired the engines. C. He managed to take a lifeboat. D. He was the last to leave the ship. 65. What is the passage mainly about? A. A group of fotten heroes B. A book describing a terrifying C. A ship engineer’s wartime experience D. A merchant’s memories of a sea rescue C A recent study of ancient and modern elephants has e up with the unexpected conclusion that the African elephant is divided into two distinct (不同的 ) spokes. The discovery was made by researchers at York and Harvard. Universities when they were examining the geic relationship between the ancient woolly mammoth and mastodon to modern elephant—the Asian elephant, African forest elephant, and African savanna elephant. Once they obtained DNA sequences (序列 ) from two fossils（化石） , mammoths and mastodons, the team pared them with DNA form modern elephants. They found to their amazement that modern forest and savanna elephants are as distinct from each other as Asian elephants and mammoths. The scientists used detailed analysis to prove that the Africa savanna elephant and Africa forest elephant have been distinct species for several million years. The divergence of the two species took place around the time of the divergence of Asian elephants and woolly mammoths. This result amazed all the scientists. There has long been debate in the scientific munity that the two might be separate species, but this is the most convincing scientific evidence so far that they are indeed different species. Previously, many naturalists believed that African savanna elephants and African forest elephants were two populations of the same species, despite the elephants’ significant size differences. The savanna elephant has an average shoulder height of metres while the forest elephant has an average shoulder height of metres. T