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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.

答案

dreamed of; hold back; smooth; rises; come true; power; harnessed; construction project;

to control flooding; provide; for; high; wide; hydro-electric power station; suggested;

produced; generating electricity; causes; global warming; equal to; flooded;

living a happy new life; historical sites; including; submerged; removed

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                                                                         Hunting

     The days of the hunter are almost over in India. This is partly because there is practically nothing left to

kill, and partly because some steps have been taken, mainly by banning tiger-shooting, to protect those animals

which still survive.

     Some people say that Man is naturally a hunter. I disagree with this view. Surely out earliest forefathers,

who at first possessed no weapons, spent their time digging for roots, and were no doubt themselves often

hunted by meat-eating animals.

     I believe the main reason why the modern hunter kills is that he thinks people will admire his courage in

overpowering dangerous animals. Of course, there are some who truly believe that the killing is not really the

important thing, and that the chief pleasure lies in the joy of the hunt and the beauties of the wild countryside.

There are also those for whom hunting in fact offers a chance to prove themselves and risk death by design;

these men go out after dangerous animals like tigers, even if they say they only do it to rid the countryside of

a threat. I can respect reasons like these, but they are clearly different from the need to strengthen your high

opinion of yourself.

     The greatest big-game hunters expressed in their writings something of these finer motives (动机). One

of them wrote.

     "You must properly respect what you are after and shoot it cleanly and on the animal's own territory (领

地).You must fix forever in your mind all the wonders of that particular day. This is better than letting him

grow a few years older to be attacked and wounded by his own son and eventually eaten, half alive, by other

animals. Hunting is not a cruel and senseless killing-not if you respect the thing you kill, not if you kill to

enrich your memories, not if you kill to feed your people."

     I can understand such beliefs, and can compare these hunters with those who hunted lions with spears

(矛) and bravely caught them by the tail. But this is very different from many tiger-shoots I have seen, in

which modern weapons were used. The so-called hunters fired from tall trees or from the backs of trained

elephants. Such methods made tigers seem no more dangerous than rabbits.

1. There is no more hunting in India now partly because _____.

A. it is dangerous to hunt there

B. hunting is already out of date

C. hunters want to protect animals

D. there are few animals left to hunt

2. The author thinks modern hunters kill mainly _____.

A. to make the countryside safe

B. to earn people's admiration

C. to gain power and influence

D. to improve their health

3. What do we learn about the big-game hunters?

A. They hunt old animals

B. They mistreat animals

C. They hunt for food

D. They hunt for money

4. What is the author's view on the tiger-shoots he has seen?

A. Modern hunters lack the courage to hunt face-to-face

B. Modern hunters should use more advanced weapons

C. Modern hunters like to hunt rabbits instead of tigers

D. Modern hunters should put their safety first

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