新概念英语L64-the-Channel-Tunnel-ppt..pptVIP

Lesson64The Channel Tunnel the Channel Tunnel connect England to France the English Channel connect England with European continent advantages : easy for people on both sides to travel to each other disadvantages: can’t stop invasion discussion a double railway-tunnel good for ventilation Why? read and answer When was the Channel Tunnel begun? When was the channel Tunnel offically opened? careful reading Who planned to build a tunnel under the English Channel in 1958?How would it be velilated？ Who suggested a better plan two years later? How would passing trains solve the problem of ventilation in his proposed double railway-tunnel ? Did work begin 42 years later or not? Why was it stopped? In 1858, a French engineer, Aime Thome de Gamond ______build a twenty-one-mile tunnel under the English Channel. He said that it would be possible to build a platform in the centre of the Channel，______would ________a port and a railway station. The tunnel would _______ if tall chimneys were built above sea level. In 1860, an Englishman called William Low________ a better plan that a double railway-tunnel should be built. planned to serve as be well-ventilated put forward which This would solve the problem of ______, for if a train______ this tunnel, it would ______ fresh air behind it. Forty-two years later a tunnel was actually begun. However, if at the time, the British________ invasion, it would ______. The world had to wait almost another _______for the Channel Tunnel. It was _______ opened on March 7,1994, finally Britain and the European continent were________together. ventilation entered draw in had not feared have been completed a century joined officially If ,at that time, the British had not feared invasion, it would have been completed. Can you explain the sentence in Chinese? What can you infer(推断) from this sentence? 虚语语气（the Subjunctive Mood）表示说话人的一种愿望、建议、命令、要求、有时是一种非真实的假设、料想，或是不可能实现的与事实相反的