A NEW CRUISE SHIP One of the biggest passenger ships in history, the Island Princess, carr

A、Seek lender approval to pay dividends.

B、Ensure the ships are insured.

C、Maintain a minimum level of working capital.

A NEW CRUISE SHIP

One of the biggest passenger ships in history, the Island Princess, carries people on cruises around the Caribbean. More than double 【C1】______ weight of the Titanic (the large passenger ship which sank in 1912), it was 【C2】______ large to be built in 【C3】______ piece. Instead, forty-eight sections 【C4】______ total were made in different places. The ship was then put together 【C5】______ these sections at a shipbuilding yard in Italy.

The huge weight of the Island Princess is partly due to her enormous height, 【C6】______ is an incredible forty-one metres. When compared with the Titanic, she is also a much broader ship. As 【C7】______ as length is concerned, there's 【C8】______ a great difference, each ship 【C9】______ over two hundred and fifty metres long.

The Island Princess can carry 【C10】______ to 2,600 passengers and has 1,321 cabins, including twenty-five specially designed 【C11】______ use by disabled passengers. There is entertainment on board to suit 【C12】______ age and interest, from dancing to good drama. The Island Princess seems very likely to be a popular holiday choice for many years to 【C13】______ even though most people will 【C14】______ to save up in order to be 【C15】______ to afford the trip.

【C1】______

Cruise Seattle

The Port of Seattle is ready to set sail for a very busy 2007 cruise season.

Seattle will welcome (150) 200 cruise ship visits and around 735,000 passengers during the upcoming cruise season. Check out the 2007 sailing schedule. Seattle provides convenience and value to passengers sailing to Alaska. New ships and two downtown cruise terminals make sailing out of Seattle an extremely attractive travel option for passengers looking for the convenience of cruising from a U. S. based port. Norwegian Cruise Line and Celebrity Cruises will depart from the Bell Street Pier Cruise Terminal at Pier 66. Holland America Line, Princess Cruises and Royal Caribbean will homeport at the Terminal 30 Cruise Facility. Both terminals are (151) located on Seattle' s downtown waterfront with easy (152) to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

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B．most

C．up

D．nearly

lifornia spent Monday night in a federal imprisonment center here, charged with threatening to kill everyone aboard the ship to cut the cruise short. The cruise ship was on a 10-day trip out of Ensenada, Mexico, when crew members found two handwritten notes on April 22 and 2Both notes stated that if the ship docked in a US port, the nearly 2,400 passengers and crew would all die. When the ship was searched, nothing was found. The cruise resumed on April 24. The woman herself confessed the following day.

Why was the young woman held up in the federal imprisonment center？

A．Because she killed the passengers on board.

B．Because she has murdered her boyfriend.

C．She was accused of threatening to slaughter others on the ship.

D．She has stolen two notebooks of the crew members.

A、singing and dancing

B、crosstalk

C、variety shows

D、acrobatics

A、Shinkansen

B、JR Lines (Japan Railways)

C、Tokyo Cruise Ship

D、Sky Bus Tokyo

____________due to leave for a Caribbean cruise tomorrow？

A. Is she the ship which

B. Is it the ship who

C. Is she the ship who

D. Is she the ship