Question

Venice is an attractive city in Italy. Tourists throughout the world love traveling to Venice. But sometimes you’ll have such strange experiences. One moment you walk across the Rialto Bridge, and there’s nothing special. Unfortunately, when you come back to the bridge an hour later, it’s underwater and everyone’s wearing rain boots.

That’s just the way it has always been, which may be considered seriously by Italian government. Before the sea comes to Venice, the government has decided to build the MOSE gates. Actually(实际上), there were many kinds of gates that were built to stop the floods, but all the gates were just built on the ground. Besides, the flooding was becoming worse. Industrial(工业的)factories built nearby on the mainland also made the condition get worse, causing the city to sink about 0.75 feet in the 20th century.

So the Italian government asked some of Italy’s biggest construction and engineering companies to build the MOST project, which was planned to be built under the sea water to stop floods. Now the government are using 3 000 people and expect to spend nearly five billion euros(欧元) on it. The MOSE gates are being built at the inlets(海湾).Each MOST gate is 197 feet long ,28.5 to 37 feel tall, and weight up to 22 tons. It’s nearly the size of a 20-story building. Before the gates are in use, under the sea full of water. When the flood comes, the water in the gates will be poured out, and then the gates will be filled with air. So the gates can go up with the sea water. Once they’re in the right place, they will stop the sea water pouring into Venice. These gates will be able to deal with floods up to 10feet,and as long as the sea level(平面)rises no more than two feet in the next 100 years, the MOSE will work as expected.

The MOSE project is now two-thirds done. The head engineer, Giovanni Cecconi, said, “This is a war. During the war, it’s not important that you win. It’s important that you’re alive. We’ve alive.” Anyway, this project is saving Venice from falling.

根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

1.The underlined word “construction” in the passage means “_______”in Chinese.

A.建筑  B. 农业  C. 交通

2.Before building the MOSE gates, the Italian government _______ to stop the floods.

A. never built gates on the ground

B. built many kinds of gates on the ground

C. built some gates which were under the ground

3.When the flood comes, _______ can describe the working steps of the MOSE gates.

4.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. The Italian government ate using 3000 people and expect to spend nearly five billion dollars on the MOSE.

B. The MOSE project is half done now.

C. Each MOSE gate is 197 feet long, 28.5 to 37 feet tall, and weighs up to 22 tons.

5.The best title for this passage should be _______.

A. The Journey to Venice

B. The MOSE Project in Venice

C. Several Kinds of Floods in Venice

 

Answer 1

【答案】

 

1.C           

2.C

3.B

4.C

5.D

【解析】

1. 词义猜测题。由文章可以看出，“MOST”作为一项工程，应该是由建筑和工程公司来兴建的。

2.细节理解题。根据第二段句子“Actually(实际上), there were many kinds of gates that were built to stop the floods, but all the gates were just built on the ground.”可以判断。

3. 整体理解题。根据文章第三段可以看出：“MOSE gates”修建在水下，当洪水来的时候，大门里的水被倾泻出来，然后大门里面就充满空气，这样大门就能竖起来挡住洪水。

4. 正题理解题。根据句子“Each MOST gate is 197 feet long ,28.5 to 37 feel tall, and weight up to 22 tons.”可以判断。

5.  主旨大意题。根据文章我们可知本文主要是说明了“MOSE Project”。

【主旨大意】本文主要讲述了意大利的威尼斯为了阻挡洪水而建立“MOST Project”的情况。