外研版高一必修三第六模块课件.ppt

At the time it was built, Chek Lap Kok Airport in Hongkong was the biggest civil engineering project of all time. It took six years to build and cost US$20 billion. The terminal building is the largest covered space in the world. The airport is within five hours’s flying time of half the world’s population and is designed to accommodate 80 million passengers a year. It is the largest hydro-electric dam in the world more than 1.5 kilometres wide across the Yangtze River, the world’s third longest river. Its reservoir is more than 500 kilometres long Do you know what the three gorges are? The?Three?Gorges?Dam ? “Walls?of?stone?to?hold?back?clouds?and?rain” Mao?Zedong?wrote?a?poem?in?which he?dreamed?of “Walls?of?stone?to?hold?back?clouds?and?rain?till?a?smooth lake?rises in the narrow gorges”. Now his dream has come true. The power of the Yangtze?River,? which?is the world third longest river, has been harnessed by the Three Gorges Dam. The?Three?Gorges?Dam,?which is the biggest construction project in China since the building of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, has been built?to?control flooding and provide?hydro-electric power for the central region of China. The?dam?is?nearly?200?metres?high?and?1.5 kilometres wide. It?is?the?largest?hydro-electric power station 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 suggested?the?ides?of?a?dam?across?the?Yangtze River in 1919. Three quarters of Chinas energy is produced by?burning?coal.?In?1993,?China?used 1.2?billion?tons of coal for heating?and?generating?electricity. Unfortunately, burning coal causes serious air pollution and increases global warming.?The dam?will?generate electricity equal to about?40?million?tons?of coal?without causing so much air pollution.? The?reservoir?has?flooded 2?cities,?11?counties,?140 towns and more?than?4,000?villages.?More?than?a?million people