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c Skim : ?What did Officer Pitman intend to do at the beginning? ?What did Officer Pitman decide to do later? ?How did Officer Pitman feel at the end of the excerpt? Scan for the outline of the text: ?Thousands of people were ________. ?There was a lifeboat. Officer Pitman was________________ on the boat. ?But later the fellow passengers on the boat _______________________________, because they were afraid that the boat would be _______________by the crowd. ?The boat drifted _______________the wreck, until the cries of distress died away. ?Thousands of people were __________. ?There was a lifeboat. Officer Pitman was________________ on the boat. ?But later the fellow passengers on the boat ______________________________, because they were afraid that the boat would be ______________by the crowd. ?The boat drifted _________________the wreck, until the cries of distress died away. in mand discouraged