外研版高中英语必修4 Module 5《A Trip Along the Three Gorges》复习课件.pptVIP

“Our goal was not to outdo or outshine it. Our goal was to, in a respectful way, do something that would be great for our generation and that would stand besides Hoover Dam in a respectful and quality way that would become a part of Hoover’s legacy. ” The $240 million bridge was built in five years by 1, 200 laborers and 300 engineers. 【文章大意】文章主要介绍了在美国历史上最伟大的建筑——胡佛大坝的旁边又建起了一座大桥。 1. Which of the following statements is WRONG about the bridge? A. It took five years to build it. B. It is the longest in the world. C. It is 1, 900-foot-long. D. 300 engineers worked on it. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第一段可知它是由西半球最长的拱支撑的桥, 根据第三段可知它长1, 900英尺, 根据最后一段可知这座桥花费了2. 4亿美元, 耗时五年, 有1 200名工人和300名工程师从事这座桥的建设。由此可知选B。 2. One of the purposes to build the bridge is to ______ . A. stop the dam from being destroyed by the terrorist B. make the dam look worse C. show America’s technological achievement D. attract more tourists 【解析】选A。细节理解题。根据第三段可知这座桥可以改善这一地区的交通并且保护大坝不受恐怖分子的威胁。故选A。 3. The Hoover Dam was ______ . A. completed recently B. built during hard times C. built to show that Americans were the greatest D. used to control the Colorado River but it isn’t now 【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第五段可知, 胡佛大坝建于美国经济大萧条时期, 所以选B。 4. The underlined word “outdo” means “______”. A. be better than B. do more than C. make more efforts in D. spend more money than 【解析】选A。词义辨析题。outdo比……做得多或做得好; 超过; 胜过。此处应表示“比……更好; 胜过”。所以选A。 (B) ［2011上海模拟］ Paris has the Eiffel Tower; New York has the Statue of Liberty; and Brussels, the Manneken Piss. Think of the Belgian capital and, if anything, you think of the small peeing (撒尿) boy—a 60-meter-high bronze figure standing on a block, supplying a constant stream of water to the basin under him. Some might laugh. But for Jacques Stroobants, the statue is up there with the best of them. “I’m proud of him. People come from all around the world to see him, ” says 60-year-old Stroobants with a fatherly glance at the little boy. As