World War Ⅱ occurred before the beginning of trans­Atlantic air travel.Liners were used to transport the children and this proved to be dangerous because the U­boats quickly emerged as the greatest threat.And this put the evacuee children trying to cross the Atlantic to safety in danger.Two ships carrying child evacuees were torpedoed(破坏) in 1940.One was the Dutch liner Volendam with 320 children on August 30.The crew managed to get the life boats off and saved the children.They were returned to Glasgow.The other was the City of Benares，an ocean liner with 200 British and foreign civilian passengers and 93 British children with a guard of nurses，teachers，and a clergyman.It was torpedoed on September 13.The crew attempted to launch the life boats as Benares began to sink.The rough weather made it difficult，so many of the passengers in the life boats died in the extreme conditions.Only 15 children survived.Churchill，when he learned of the disaster，decided to end the overseas evacuation scheme.

　　1．The whole passage is mainly about

　　.

　　A．bombing Britain

　　B．children evacuation

　　C．German U­boats

　　D．loss of children

　　答案　B

　　解析　主旨大意题。通读全文可知文章主要介绍了孩子的疏散、撤离问题，故选B。

　　2．What can we learn about the British people according to the passage?

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