2019年高考英语一轮巩固达标练题Unit2Poems含解析新人教版.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 1 Unit 2 Poems 一、阅读理解。 Few people are aware that Waterloo Bridge, crossed by thousands of daily commuters(通勤者) and celebrated as a London landmark, was mainly built by a female workforce. There are no written or photographic records of the women who built the bridge since the construction company that built it closed in the 1980s and with it went all the records. What’s left is anecdotal evidence, kept alive by the tourist boat captains who have called it the Ladies’ Bridge. During the Second World War, with the majority of the active male labor force away at the front, women incr