Nhằm giúp các bạn đang chuẩn bị bước vào kì thi quốc tế có thêm tài liệu ôn tập, giới thiệu đến các bạn IELTS Academic Reading Sample 129 - Lessons from the Titanic để ôn tập nắm vững kiến thức cũng như giúp các bạn được làm quen trước với các dạng câu hỏi đề thi giúp các bạn tự tin hơn khi bước vào kì thi chính thức. | Lessons from the Titanic A From the comfort of our modern lives we tend to look back at the turn of the twentieth century as a dangerous time for sea travellers. With limited communication facilities and shipping technology still in its infancy in the early nineteen hundreds we consider ocean travel to have been a risky business. But to the people of the time it was one of the safest forms of transport. At the time of the Titanic s maiden voyage in 1912 there had only been four lives lost in the previous forty years on passenger ships on the North Atlantic crossing. And the Titanic was confidently proclaimed to be unsinkable. She represented the pinnacle of technological advance at the time. Her builders crew and passengers had no doubt that she was the finest ship ever built. But still she did sink on April 14 1912 taking 1 517 of her passengers and crew with her. B The RMS Titanic left Southampton for New York on April 10 1912. On board were some of the richest and most famous people of the time who had paid large sums of money to sail on the first voyage of the most luxurious ship in the world. Imagine her placed on her end she was larger at 269 metres than many of the tallest buildings of the day. And with nine decks she was as high as an eleven storey building. The Titanic carried 329 first class 285 second class and 710 third class passengers with 899 crew members under the care of the very experienced Captain Edward J. Smith. She also carried enough food to feed a small town including 40 000 fresh eggs 36 000 apples 111 000 lbs of fresh meat and 2 200 lbs of coffee for the five day journey. C RMS Titanic was believed to be unsinkable because the hull was divided into sixteen watertight compartments. Even if two of these compartments flooded the ship could still float. The ship s owners could not imagine that in the case of an accident the Titanic would not be able to float until she was rescued. It was largely as a result of this confidence in the ship and
