2021年湖北成人学位英语考试《阅读理解》强化练习.docxVIP

2021年湖北成人学位英语考试《阅读理解》强化练习（3） 【导语】要想拿到学位证书，一定要通过学位英语考试，为帮助各 位考生熟悉各类考点，小编为大家准备了 202*年湖北成人学位英语 考试《阅读理解》强化练习（3）。欢迎阅读参考！更多相关讯息请关 注小编！ For centur ies Dutch engineers have been fighting a war against water. Thei r main ene-my is the sea. A large part of the country is below sea level. In fact,Hol land is also cal led the Nether lands1 which means M low land. Very tai I and strong waI Is,caI Ied dykes, have built to keep out the sea. But in very rough weather the sea may suddenly burst through a dyke. Great damage can be caused by floods when this happens. Three large r ivers are a I so part of the problem.-They flow through Hol land into the North Sea. They have cut manypassages across the country. At low tides, the r ivers flow into the sea as usual, But at high tide,the sea can flow i nto the r ivers! This i s because the land i s so low. The battles against the water never end, but they have made Hol land a bigger and bigger country. In order to prevent floods, the engineers take, or reclaim, land that was under water. The Dutch have been reclaiming land for seven hundred years. Land is usually reclaimed from a passage between islands. Two dykes are builtacross the passage,sothey block thewater between them.Then the engineersdiglong canals andpump the water intothem. At low tide,thecanaIs empty the Two dykes are built across the passage, so they block the water between them. Then the engineers dig long canals and pump the water into them. At low tide, the canaIs empty the water i nto the sea. Because the I and i sso low, water fromthesea and r ivers Because the I and i s so low, water from the sea and r ivers can r ise up throughthe ground. For this reasont the pumps continue working. The dykes contain gates, and through these the water is pumped out. In many parts of Hol land, pumps must be working a I I the time. If they stopped, there will be very bad floods. can r ise up through A piece of reclaimed land i s called polder,and Hol land has thousands of polders. Som