Seven Chinese sailors are missing after a Chineses cargo ship sank in Russian waters near Japan on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday, :”some of the 10 Chinese sailors on board were saved but seven are still missing after the ship sank off the waters of Vladivostok,” said a statement on its website,。 The ministry didn’t mention the cause of the incident, saying rescue efforts and an investigation into the incident are ongoing ,
But the Global Times, a Chinese language newspaper based in Beijing, said yesterday the ship was fired on by the Russian navy before it sank. The news is first reported in a Russian newspaper, New Star, the cargo ship, was sequestered(扣押)at the Russian port or Nakhodka earlier this month for alleged (被指控的，可疑的)smuggling. It left the port not far from the Sino-Russian border withour permission from Russian authorities last Thursday and was chased(追)by a cruiser, the newspaper said, Later, the warship shot at least 500 rounds onto the ship and forced it to sail back toward the port ,in a period of almost 24 hours, Russian navy officers and soldiers onboard the rcruiser watched the sinking boat and did not make any response to the cries for help from the crewmen, In the end , 16 silors onboard New Star got on two lifeboats, The Russian sailors managed to sve one boat carrying eight people , while the other was engulfed in the waves, Of all the sailors onboard 6 came from Indonesia
The Russian News Agency reported the incident yesterday and said the coast guard just found an empty boat in a three-day search , It also said that bad weather was the reason behind accident,
According to the Intemational Maritime Orginzation, the owner of New Strar is a shipping company of Zhejiaing, while the operator is a company based in Guangzhou
59. The passage may be found in________________
A magazines B newspapers C, scientific fictions D,biographies(传记)
60. How many Chinese sailors have been saved?
A 10 B 7 C 3 D 6
61.Why did the Russian warship shoot the carog ship_________
A To force it to sink B, To force it to go back to China
C To force it to sail back to Russia C To kill the sailors on the ship
62. It can be inferred that______________
A the other 8 sailors may have died
B the Russian navy officers and soldiers were willing to help the sailors
C the Russian port was far from China
D the Chinese ship was not very good
