2024年2月24日发(作者：皇甫子琪)

CHINA'S GRAND CANAL

中国的大运河

For centuries, the ___1_____(powerful) of Chinese emperors rose and with their control of

the Grand Canal. Today, this important waterway is ____3____(short) than it once was, but it is

still the _____4____(long) man-made river in the world, and continues to play an important

_____5____(culture) and economic role in modern China.

Construction Begins

The ____6____(originally) canal system began around the year 605, when Emperor Yang

____7___(realize) that—in order to ___8__(food) his army-he needed a way to move

food____9____(quick) ___10___China's southern rice-growing region to the country's north. An

estimated one million people, mostly farmers,worked ______11_____(build) the first section of

the Grand Canal, ___12___connected existing canals, lakes, and rivers. Construction took six

years and ______13______(complete) in 611.

Over the next 500 years, the canal's _____14_____(important) grew throughout China, but

by 1127, parts were deteriorating. In 1279, Kublai Khan began to repair and build new parts of

the canal. This renovation created a more direct north-south route to and___15__Beijing. Future

rulers then continued _____16___(expand) and improve the canal.

A Nation's Lifeline

In addition to ____17____(move) rice around China, the Grand Canal was also __18__

important cultural conduit. Soldiers, merchants, and artists transported ideas, regional

____19___(food), and cultural practices from one part of China to ____20____ along the

country's watery highway. According to legend, this is how Beijing acquired two of __21__(it)

best-known trademarks: Peking duck, a ___22__ from Shandong Province in the south, and

Peking opera, from Anhui and Hubei, also in the south.

The Modern Canal

For more than a thousand years, goods have been transported ____23___ the Grand Canal.

Even today, the country's watery highway plays an important economic __24__ in China. Boats

continue to carry tons of coal, food, and other goods to points between Hangzhou and Jining. In

addition, local governments—eager ______25_____(increase) tourism and real estate

_______26____(develop)—are working _______27______(beautify) areas along the canal.

This development comes at a price, though. In Yangzhou, the city has torn down almost all of

the older canal-side buildings. Farther south in the cities of Zhenjiang, Wuxi,and Hangzhou, the

situation is ____28_____. In Hangzhou, for example, almost all of the ____29____buildings have

been demolished."_____30______(traditional) we talk about 18 main cities on the Grand Canal,

and each had something ____31___ and special about it," explains Zhou Xinhua, the former vice

director of the Grand Canal museum in Hangzhou. "But now many of these cities are all the

___32____: a thousand people with one ___33__."

In 2005, a group of citizens proposed that the historic Grand Canal be made a UNESCO

World Heritage site, to ____34____ both the waterway and the architecture around it."Every

generation wants the next _____35______ to understand it, to look at its monuments," said Zhu

Bingren, an artist ___36____ cowrote this hope is that the Grand Canal, a site of

cultural and economic importance—and one of the world's great engineering

accomplishments—will continue to ___37__ north and south China for centuries to come.

A .Word in context(语境）Complete each sentence with the correct answer.

1. If you repair a computer, you __________it.

b. fix

2. A former president is a __________president.

a. past b. future

3. A citizen of a country __________the legal rights of that country.

a. has b. does not have

4. If you demolish a bridge, you __________it.

a. build y

5. A regional language is spoken in __________a country.

a. a particular area of b. all parts of

g comprehension

1. Why was the Grand Canal originally built?

a. to allow the army to move quickly from the north to the south

b. to transport food from the southern regions of China to the northern regions

c. to enable more people to visit remote parts of China

d. to promote the cultural and traditional diversity of the south of China

2. What is NOT true about the Grand Canal?

a. It originally took six years to complete its construction.

b. Even today, it is the largest man-made river in the world.

c. Around a million people worked on the first section of the canal.

d. It allowed Peking duck and Peking opera to spread to southern China.

3. What would be the best alternative heading for the fourth paragraph?

a. Renewed Importance b. Cultural Connections c. The Army's Highway d. The

Origins of Peking Opera

4. In Paragraph4, the word practices could be replaced with _________.

a. traditions b. repetitions c. instructions d.

improvements

5. Which of the following is closest in meaning to This development comes at a price, though.?

a. But developing the canal involves spending a lot of money.

b. But even after spending money, people might not like the development.

c. But developing it is a lot more expensive than one can imagine.

d. But there are some negative consequences to having this development.

6. The artist Zhu Bingren would probably most like to see that __________.

a. the canal and the area around it are declared a heritage site

b. the canal is further expanded in an east-west direction

c. more changes are made to modernize the canal

d. a monument is created to honor China's economic and cultural importance

一．原文填词答案:

1. power 3. shorter t 5. cultural al ed

8. feed y

10. from 11. to build 13. was completed ance 15. from

16. to expand

17. moving 20. another 22. dish 23. along

24. role

25. to increase pment

ionally

31. unique 32. same 33. face

37. link

二．练习A答案：

1.b2.a3.a4.b5.a

三．练习B阅读理解答案：

1.b.2.d3.b4.a5.b6.d

27. to beautifying

34. protect

r 29. ancient

tion 36. who

2024年2月24日发(作者：皇甫子琪)

CHINA'S GRAND CANAL

中国的大运河

For centuries, the ___1_____(powerful) of Chinese emperors rose and with their control of

the Grand Canal. Today, this important waterway is ____3____(short) than it once was, but it is

still the _____4____(long) man-made river in the world, and continues to play an important

_____5____(culture) and economic role in modern China.

Construction Begins

The ____6____(originally) canal system began around the year 605, when Emperor Yang

____7___(realize) that—in order to ___8__(food) his army-he needed a way to move

food____9____(quick) ___10___China's southern rice-growing region to the country's north. An

estimated one million people, mostly farmers,worked ______11_____(build) the first section of

the Grand Canal, ___12___connected existing canals, lakes, and rivers. Construction took six

years and ______13______(complete) in 611.

Over the next 500 years, the canal's _____14_____(important) grew throughout China, but

by 1127, parts were deteriorating. In 1279, Kublai Khan began to repair and build new parts of

the canal. This renovation created a more direct north-south route to and___15__Beijing. Future

rulers then continued _____16___(expand) and improve the canal.

A Nation's Lifeline

In addition to ____17____(move) rice around China, the Grand Canal was also __18__

important cultural conduit. Soldiers, merchants, and artists transported ideas, regional

____19___(food), and cultural practices from one part of China to ____20____ along the

country's watery highway. According to legend, this is how Beijing acquired two of __21__(it)

best-known trademarks: Peking duck, a ___22__ from Shandong Province in the south, and

Peking opera, from Anhui and Hubei, also in the south.

The Modern Canal

For more than a thousand years, goods have been transported ____23___ the Grand Canal.

Even today, the country's watery highway plays an important economic __24__ in China. Boats

continue to carry tons of coal, food, and other goods to points between Hangzhou and Jining. In

addition, local governments—eager ______25_____(increase) tourism and real estate

_______26____(develop)—are working _______27______(beautify) areas along the canal.

This development comes at a price, though. In Yangzhou, the city has torn down almost all of

the older canal-side buildings. Farther south in the cities of Zhenjiang, Wuxi,and Hangzhou, the

situation is ____28_____. In Hangzhou, for example, almost all of the ____29____buildings have

been demolished."_____30______(traditional) we talk about 18 main cities on the Grand Canal,

and each had something ____31___ and special about it," explains Zhou Xinhua, the former vice

director of the Grand Canal museum in Hangzhou. "But now many of these cities are all the

___32____: a thousand people with one ___33__."

In 2005, a group of citizens proposed that the historic Grand Canal be made a UNESCO

World Heritage site, to ____34____ both the waterway and the architecture around it."Every

generation wants the next _____35______ to understand it, to look at its monuments," said Zhu

Bingren, an artist ___36____ cowrote this hope is that the Grand Canal, a site of

cultural and economic importance—and one of the world's great engineering

accomplishments—will continue to ___37__ north and south China for centuries to come.

A .Word in context(语境）Complete each sentence with the correct answer.

1. If you repair a computer, you __________it.

b. fix

2. A former president is a __________president.

a. past b. future

3. A citizen of a country __________the legal rights of that country.

a. has b. does not have

4. If you demolish a bridge, you __________it.

a. build y

5. A regional language is spoken in __________a country.

a. a particular area of b. all parts of

g comprehension

1. Why was the Grand Canal originally built?

a. to allow the army to move quickly from the north to the south

b. to transport food from the southern regions of China to the northern regions

c. to enable more people to visit remote parts of China

d. to promote the cultural and traditional diversity of the south of China

2. What is NOT true about the Grand Canal?

a. It originally took six years to complete its construction.

b. Even today, it is the largest man-made river in the world.

c. Around a million people worked on the first section of the canal.

d. It allowed Peking duck and Peking opera to spread to southern China.

3. What would be the best alternative heading for the fourth paragraph?

a. Renewed Importance b. Cultural Connections c. The Army's Highway d. The

Origins of Peking Opera

4. In Paragraph4, the word practices could be replaced with _________.

a. traditions b. repetitions c. instructions d.

improvements

5. Which of the following is closest in meaning to This development comes at a price, though.?

a. But developing the canal involves spending a lot of money.

b. But even after spending money, people might not like the development.

c. But developing it is a lot more expensive than one can imagine.

d. But there are some negative consequences to having this development.

6. The artist Zhu Bingren would probably most like to see that __________.

a. the canal and the area around it are declared a heritage site

b. the canal is further expanded in an east-west direction

c. more changes are made to modernize the canal

d. a monument is created to honor China's economic and cultural importance

一．原文填词答案:

1. power 3. shorter t 5. cultural al ed

8. feed y

10. from 11. to build 13. was completed ance 15. from

16. to expand

17. moving 20. another 22. dish 23. along

24. role

25. to increase pment

ionally

31. unique 32. same 33. face

37. link

二．练习A答案：

1.b2.a3.a4.b5.a

三．练习B阅读理解答案：

1.b.2.d3.b4.a5.b6.d

27. to beautifying

34. protect

r 29. ancient

tion 36. who