week2 - Korean ferry sank

Students Among Hundreds Missing After South Korean Ferry Sinks

APRIL 16, 2014

By SU-HYUN LEE and CHOE SANG-HUN
    
    JINDO, South Korea — The parents waited in dread through the night, huddled under blankets in this South Korean port town, staring out to sea for a sign that rescuers had found any of the 281 people, many of them high school students, still missing after a ferry sank on Wednesday.
    
    They refused to sleep in a tent set up for them, preferring to scan the horizon for helicopters returning from the rescue effort 11 miles off the country’s southwest coast. As the hours passed with little news of what may be one of South Korea’s worst peacetime disasters, they demanded information from officials who said that fierce tides were keeping divers from entering the ship, which had mostly slipped beneath the waves long before.
    
    By Thursday morning, the Ministry of Security and Public Administration, which is coordinating the rescue efforts, reported that 175 passengers and crew members had been rescued. Nine people were confirmed dead, including four students, two teachers and a member of the ferry’s crew. But fears of a much higher death toll were stoked as survivors said they believed that many people had been trapped below deck. According to some who spoke to the local news media, passengers had been told to remain in their seats and may have stayed there until it was too late.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/17/world/asia/south-korean-ferry-accident.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A17%22%7D

Structure of the Lead：

   WHO-the parents

   WHEN-Wednesday

   WHAT-waiting for their children
   WHY- the ferry which their children took was sunk

   WHERE-South Korean port town

   HOW-not given

Keywords：

   1. port：港口

   2. horizon：地平線

   3. coordinate：協調

   4. diver：潛水員   
   5. confirm：證實

   6. crew：機組人員

   7.  toll：死亡人數

   8. deck：甲板

   9. stoke：困住