Question

从方框中选择合适的词,用其适当的形式填空

above, for, across, history, serve, double, possible, enter, build, be

The Channel Tunnel (英吉利海峡隧道)        In 1858, a French engineer, Aim? Thome de Gamond, arrived in England with a plan for a twenty-one mile tunnel  1   the English Channel. He said that it would be  2   to build a platform in the center of the Channel. This platform  3   as a port and a railway station. The tunnel would be well-ventilated (通风好的)  if  tall chimneys were built   4   sea-level(海平面).  In 1860, a better plan was put forward(提出) by an Englishman,  William Low.  He suggested that a  5   railway tunnel should be built. This would solve the problem of ventilation,    6   if a train  7  this tunnel, it would draw in (吸入) fresh air behind it. Forty-two years later a tunnel was actually begun. If, at the time, the British had not feared invasion(入侵), it would have been completed. Recently, there has again   8   great interest in the idea of a Channel Tunnel.  If it   9  ,  it will connect (连接) Britain to Europe for the first time in   10   .

Answer 1

1. across   2. possible   3. would serve   4. above    5. double   6. for   7. entered    8. been     9. is built 10. history