2016高考英语专题复习 Reading（复杂结构+复杂选项+论述文）（pdf）.pdfVIP

Reading ——复杂结构+复杂选项+论说文 Reading —— 复杂结构+复杂选项+论说文 一、复杂结构+复杂选项排除 1 The tower of Big Ben ,London’s most famous building ,has always leaned （倾斜）slightly ,but construction work on a new line for the London Underground seemed likely to give the tower a real lean .Engineers have had to prop up （支撑）its base to prevent it from damaging the rest of the Houses of Parliament （议会大厦）. To control the tower’s movement ,engineers pumped grout （水泥浆）into the soil under the tower .The tower now leans an extra few centimeters ,but the lean can only be seen by the most sharp-eyed observer . Between 1995 and 1997 ,to lengthen the Jubilee line of the Underground ,builders dug a 40-metre-deep hole just 31 metres north of the clock tower .And the new tube （underground ）tunnels were even nearer to the tower .John Burland ,who recently helped stop the increasing lean in the Leaning Tower of Pisa and was an adviser to the Jubilee line project ,believed the work would affect the tower .In his opinion ,no further lean should go beyond a safety limit of 27.5 millimetres over the existing lean of 220 millimetres . To keep the lean within this limit，Burland told the British Association about the new method of pumping grout immediately under the base of the tower .More than 300 tons of grout were pumped in during construction .The tower’s additional lean went between 10 and 25 millimetres ,but never passed 27.5 millimetres . After the construction work was completed in last 1997, a review of movements in nearby walls showed that the building was in better shape than had been thought before and the safety limit was raised to 35 millimetres be