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(1) The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in southern Japan is one of the world’s longest
(1) The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in southern Japan is one of the world’s longest
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2023-10-22
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(1) The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge in southern Japan is one of the world’s longest bridges. The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge spans the Akashi Strait, connecting Awaji Island to Kobe, an important industrial center. The bridge has a span of 5973 feet (1991 meters), making it over 25% longer than its nearest competition: the Humber Bridge in England. Strangely, there may be longer bridges in the world, but the Guinness Book of World Records measures the longest bridges according to their record-breaking spans.
(2) The Akashi Kaikyo Bridge is a suspension bridge. This means that the roadway is suspended from pillars by cables. The concrete pillars have to be tall enough to support the whole weight of the bridge. The pillars on the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge are 900 feet tall. These pillars had to be built to withstand not only huge waves but also high-speed winds, and possibly even violent earthquakes, which are not uncommon in the area. The bridge has survived one earthquake already: its span was extended by more than 3 feet by the Kobe earthquake of 1995.
(3) The cables weigh 50,000 tons and have a diameter of almost four feet each. Each cable contains 290 hexagonal strands; each strand is composed of 127 steel wires. The total length of the wire used is more than 200,000 miles, enough to circle the Earth 7.5 times!
(4) The first plans to connect Kobe to Naruto via Awaji Island were voiced in 1955, but it took the government thirty years to decide to really build the bridge. The next three years were spent surveying the site and construction commenced in 1988. In designing the bridge, special consideration was given to its effect on the surroundings, great emphasis was placed on a "pleasing balance between light and shade" and also on the choice of the perfect color.
(5) The construction of the bridge was a very complicated and technologically draining process, which took ten years to complete. Casting concrete in 300 feet of water, installing special pilot ropes over the strait by helicopter, and finally stretching the gigantic steel cables surely wasn’t an easy job. Ten years after construction commenced in 1988, the bridge was finished and the six-lane highway finally opened to traffic.
(6) The bridge has made the transportation from island to island much easier, so in addition to breaking a record, the Akashi Kaikyo Bridge achieves the main goal of a bridge: to connect two places. [br] During construction, ________.
选项
A、the earth was circled 7.5 times with 200,000 miles of wire
B、the steel cables were installed by helicopter
C、an earthquake took place
D、concrete was usually cast in 30 feet of water
答案
C
解析
细节题。“construction”是定位关键词。选项A错误理解了文中的“enough to circle the Earth 7. 5 times”,这只是虚拟语气,不是真实发生的事。选项B中的“helicopter’’是定位关键词,第五段中提到的“installing special pilot ropes over the strait by helicopter”是安装特别的定位绳索,而不是缆绳。选项C可以从文中给出的日期计算出来。地震发生在1995年,桥是从1988年开始建造的,建了10年,到1998年建完,所以应该是在建设期间发生的地震。选项D中的“concrete”是定位关键词,根据第五段第二句可知,浇筑的混凝土为300英尺深而非30。因此选项C正确。
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