The world's largest ship, which is the size of four football fields and can carry 900 million tins of beans, arrived into Britain today for the first time.

The Hong-Kong registered CSCL Globe left Shanghai on its maiden voyage on December 8 carrying 19,100 containers.Piled end to end, the containers would be five times the height of Mount Everest.Nearly 4,000 of them - with a total of 57,000 tons of cargo including food, drink, clothing, electrical goods and furniture - are being unloaded at Felixstowe in Suffolk.

The massive cargo ship, built by Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea,weighs 184,000 tons and is 1,312ft long.It is 400 metres long and 59 metres wide and can carry 19,100 standard 20ft containers, around 1,000 more than the previous record.

The ship set sail on its 11,067 mile maiden voyage from the Chinese port of Yantian last month. It stopped off at Port Kelang in Malaysia to load more cargo before passing through the Suez canal.

With a multi-national crew of just 31 on board, the ship arrived into the Suffolk port at about 1pm today.Dock workers using seven ship-to-shore cranes almost immediately began unloading the 3,978 containers carrying goods for Britain. Another 3,909 containers are due to be loaded on to the ship, operated by the China Shipping Container Line, to replace those being taken off.

The ship is the first of five giant vessels of the same size which are being built for China Shipping Container Line.

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1.The world’s largest ship was registered in .

A Hong Kong.

B Shanghai.

C Britain.

D South Korea.

解析：选A。A 细节理解题。根据第二段第一句The Hong-Kong registered CSCL Globe left…可知，故选A。

2.How many containers did the ship carry when it left Shanghai?

A 3909

B 19100

C 4000

D 3978

解析：选B。B 细节理解题。根据第二段第一句The Hong-Kong registered CSCL Globe left Shanghai …carrying 19,100 containers.可知，故选B。

3.Which statement is NOT right according to the passage?

A The ship is the size of four football fields.

B The crew in the ship are from different countries.

C The ship was built by a company from South Korea.

D The ship is as tall as the Mount Everest.

解析：选D。D 内容理解题。轮船上的集装箱全部堆起来是珠峰的五倍高而不是轮船本身是珠峰的五倍高，故选D。

4.What is the opposite word to “unload” in paragraph 5?

A Load

B Cargo.

C Pile.

D Replace.

解析：选A。A 语义理解题。Unload表示“卸货”，其反义词为load“装货”，故选A。

5.How many more ships of the same size are going to be built?

A Five.

B Four.

C Twenty.

D Thirty-one.

解析：选B。B 判断推理题。根据文章最后一段The ship is the first of five giant vessels of the same size…可知，故选B。