1、2013 年职称英语考试综合类补全短文解题思路及方法(6)为了帮助广大考生更好地备考 2013 年职称英语考试,职业培训教育网小编特别整理了职称英语综合类补全短文相关学习资料,并借助文章展开对职称英语中重要的语法点和词汇的复习。希望能够给您带来帮助,祝大家备考顺利!例题解析:补全短文 (第 46 50 题,每题 2 分,共 10 分)阅读下面的短文,文章中有 5 处空白,文章后面有 6 组文字,请根据文章的内容选择5 组文字,将其分别放回文章原有位置,以恢复文章原貌。请将答案涂在答题卡相应的位置上。The worlds longest bridgeRumor has it that a leg
2、endary sixheaded monster lurks in the deep waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea between Italy and the island of Sicily(1) When completed in 2010,the worlds longest bridge will weigh nearly 300,000 tonsequivalent to the iceberg that sank the Titanicand stretch 5 kilometers long“Thats nearly 50 percent longer
3、 than any other bridge ever built,”says structural engineer Shane Rixon(2) Theyre suspension bridges,massive structures built to span vast water channels or gorgesA suspension bridge needs just two towers to shoulder the structures mammoth weight,thanks to hefty supporting cables slung between the t
4、owers and anchored firmly in deep pools of cement at each end of the bridgeThe Messina Strait Bridge will have two 54,100-ton towers,which will support most of the bridges loadThe beefy cables of the bridge each 1.2 meter in diameter, will hold up the longest and widest bridge deck ever builtWhen co
5、nstruction begins on the Messina Strait Bridge in 2005,the first job will be to erect two 370 meter-tall steel towers(3)Getting these cables up will be somethingIts not just their lengthtotally 5.3 kilometersbut their weight (4)After lowering vertical“suspender”cables from the main cablesbuilders wi
6、ll erect a 60 meter-wide 54630-ton steel roadway, or deckwide enough to accommodate 12 lanes of trafficThe decks weight will pull down on the cables with a force of 70,500 tonsIn return,the cables yank up against their firmly rooted anchors with a force of 1 39。000 tons equivalent to the weight of a
7、bout 100,000 carsThose anchors are essential (5) 练习:A Some environmentalists are against the project on biological groundsB What do the worlds longest bridges have in common?C If true,one day you might spy the beast while zipping(呼啸而过)across the Messina Strait BridgeD Theyre what will keep the bridge from going anywhereE The second job will be to pull two sets of steel cables across the strait,each set being a bundle of 44,352 individual steel wiresF They will tip up the scales at 166,500 tonsmore than half the bridges total mass