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【单选题】Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage: For 20 months the wreckedCostaConcordia has been lying on its side near the coast of Giglio, a small Italian islan
D、But on Tuesday, as part of the largest salvage (打捞) operation ever conducted，the large ship was finally moved to the upright position. The next step is for the vessel to be removed from the area entirely. TheCostaConcordia is twice the weight of the TitaniC、The ship itself didn’t budge (稍微移动)for the first three hours of the operation, Sergio Girotto told reporters. He and other engineers worked for 19 hours beforeConcordia was declared completely upright. TheCostaConcordia capsized on January 13, 2012,after its captain, Francesco Schettino,brought the ship too close to the shore. The ship hit coastal rocks, which caused serious damage and allowed water to pour in. (76) Most of the 4,200 people on board made it to land safely, but more than 30 people were killed in the disaster. Two people remain missing. TheConcordia’s captain is currently on trial for causing a shipwreck and abandoning his ship. The operation to right the ship is called parbuckling. While parbuckling is a standard operation to right capsized ships,it has never before been used on such a large ship. (77) Workers had been waiting for favorable weather conditions to undertake the operation. On Monday,authorities gave the final go-ahea
D、The process was expected to take no more than 12 hours.But problems with the large system of steel chains caused delays.Engineers worked through the night using cables and metal water tanks to roll the ship onto special platforms. TheConcordia is expected to be pulled away from Giglio in the spring of 2014 and turned into scrap metal (废金属). The ships owner,CostaCruises, will pay for the recovery, which has already cost more than $800 million. According to the passage，which of the following statements is TRUE、
A、TheCostaConcordia is three times the weight of the TitaniC、
B．Engineers in Italy have successfully righted the wreckedConcordia after an operation that lasted around 12 hours.
C．The salvage operation went ahead despite bad weather conditions.

D、As a common means of righting wrecked ships, parbuckling had never been carried out on a vessel of theConcordia’s size.

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