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The Three Gorges Dam

“Walls of stone to hold back clouds and rain”
Mao Zedong wrote a poem in which he           (梦想) “walls of stone to         (阻止) clouds and rain till a       (光滑的，平坦的) lake       (上升) in the narrow gorges”. Now his dream has           (实现). The        (水力) of the Yangtze River, which is the world’s third longest river, has been           (利用) by the Three Gorges Dam.
The Three Gorges Dam, which is the biggest                 (建筑工程)in China since the building of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, has been built                  (控制泛滥)and
     hydro-electric power        (为……提供)the central region of China. The dam is nearly 200 metres      (高)and 1.5 kilometres      (宽). It is the largest              (水力发电站)
and dam in the world and has cost more than any other construction project in history.
Sun Yat-sen, who was the leader of the 1911 Revolution, first       (建议，提出)the idea of a dam across the Yangtze River in 1919. Three quarters of China’s energy is         (产生)by burning coal. In 1993, China used 1.2 billion tons of coal for heating and                  (发电). Unfortunately, burning coal      (导致，引起) serious air pollution and increases             (全球变暖). The dam will generate electricity           (相当于)about 40 million tons of coal without causing so much air pollution.
The reservoir has        (淹没)2 cities, 11 counties, 140 towns and more than 4,000 villages. More than a million people who lived in the region have moved from their homes. Now they’re                         (过着幸福的新生活)in different areas.
The Three Gorges area is one of the most beautiful areas of China and the project has flooded some of China’s most famous                 (历史遗迹),      (包括)the Qu Yuan Temple, the Han Watchtower and the Moya Cliff carvings. About 800 historical relics have been      (淹没). Some of them are being          (迁移)and some are being put into museums.

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二、单项选择
1. The        of the Itaipu Dam took 30 000 people seven years.

A．construction

B．structure

C．destruction

D．instruction

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2.Operations which left patients       and in need of long periods of recovery time now leave
them feeling relaxed and comfortable.

A．exhausted

B．injured

C．ridiculous

D．delighted

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3. The power station we visited        half the province’s energy.

A．generals

B．gentles

C．generates

D．generations

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4. Have you heard of the town        when they built the dam?

A．submerge

B．submerging

C．being submerged

D．submerged

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5. China has made great progress in     the sun’s rays as a source of energy.

A．harness

B．harnessing

C．harvest

D．harvesting

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6. He is quite sure that it’s        impossible for him to finish the task within two days.

A．extremely

B．absolutely

C．very

D．particularly

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7. In a word, I don’t think what you said        at all.

A．makes sense

B．makes no sense

C．is of little importance

D．has a sense

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8. The old building possibly        the Ming Period.

A．are dated bake to

B．dated from

C．dates back to

D．are dated from

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9. Haven’t you learned of the advantage you should        other’s weak points in order to win
the match?

A．make on

B．make of

C．have to

D．take of

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10.       is often the case, we have worked out the production plan.

A．Which

B．When

C．What

D．As

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11. ——What does the hydro-electric project of the Three Gorges Dam mean?
——It means        the danger of flooding.

A．to bring an end of	B．to bring an end to
C．bringing an end of	D．bringing an end to

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12. The police         the crowd in case anything happened.

A．held back

B．held up

C．kept down

D．kept from

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13. After working hard for many years,       .

A．his dream was realized	B．his dream came true
C．he came true his dream	D．he realized his dream

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14．After a short rest, he came back to       he had stopped and continued reading.

A．where

B．which

C．in which

D．that

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15. A world-famous ballet company’s 42-year absence from Beijing will end  　   it brings a new production to the stage this week.

A．since

B．when

C．unless

D．until

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三、单词拼写
1. The boy d    of becoming a pilot.                      
2. She is studying e   (工程学) at university.              　　
3. In the past, people only used coal for g     electricity. 　　　
4. Some foreign travellers will visit the three famous  r    of the
tomorrow.                                               
5. Can you imagine the hotel can a    up to 1,000 guests?   
6. He is busy writing a new h    novel.                     
7. Don’t you think it is a     (荒谬的)idea to make petrol from water?                                                                   
8. The Great Wall, which is now still under c   , will be completed
nextJune      　　　　　                                                         
9. The hotel     (提供)a shoe-cleaning service for guests.   

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四、翻译句子
1．他埋头工作，试图忘记他所遭受过的那些苦难。(submerge)
2．三峡大坝仍在建设之中。(construction)
3．她认为她能胜任该工作。(equal to)
4．这些句子在这篇文章中没有意义。(make sense)
5．突然的停电使派对结束了。(bring an end to)