L1 General knowledge of roads 道路知识.pdfVIP

土木工程专业英语 刘克瑾 河南工业大学 土木建筑学院 Lesson 1 General Knowledge of Roads  Text A Development of Roads  Text B How is a modern road built  Text C Highways types Text A Development of Roads  1. When we speed along a modern highway, we rarely stop to think what it is we are riding on. To understand what a road is, we must study the ways in which people have traveled in the past. Text A Development of Roads 2. The very first roads were really tracks beaten in the ground by wild animals in prehistoric times. People followed these winding trails because they provided an easy and quick way to get through thick forests. In time, people began to improve the paths by filling holes with earth and laying logs across soft, boggy spots. These attempts were crude, but they were the beginning of road construction.  Prehistoric [,prih ɪstɔr ɪk] adj. 史前的；陈旧的  winding [wa ɪnd ɪŋ] adj. 弯曲的，蜿蜒的；卷绕的  log [lɔg] n. [林] 原木（log 的复数）；日志  boggy [bɔɡi] adj. 似沼泽的；沼泽多的  Spot [spɑt] n. 地点；斑点  crude[krud] adj. 粗糙的；天然的 Text A Development of Roads  2. The very first roads were really tracks beaten in the ground by wild animals in prehistoric times.  People followed these winding trails because they provided an easy and quick way to get through thick forests.  In time, people began to improve the paths by filling holes with earth and laying logs across soft, boggy spots.  These attempts were crude, but they were the beginning of road construction. Text A Development of Roads  3. As people began to transport goods over longer distances, they developed new ways of travelling. First they packed their wares on animals. Then they invented various kinds of sleds. Finally, after the invention of the wheel, they bui