READINGPASSAGE2.doc

解析使用说明：为了便于阅读，本解析采用不用的颜色，加下划线和斜体，加粗等形式对文章进行标记。 红色部分:（第1，2，…,题）表示各个题目的答案所在地。 加下划线和斜体：表示答案。由于有时答案密集，分别用加下划线和斜体将前后不同题目的答案区分开来。 加粗：加粗的部分表示该单词或词组在后面或者段落下面做了注释。 另外，每道题的正确答案在题目后面用蓝色字体标明。 大家网英语编辑制作。 邮箱：nicole_1985@ READING PASSAGE 2 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 14-26, which are based on Reading Passage 2 on the following pages. MAKING EVERY DROP COUNT A The history of human civilization is entwined(缠绕，交错) with the history of the ways we have learned to manipulate（熟练控制或操纵） water resources. （第14题） As towns gradually expanded, water was brought from increasingly remote sources, leading to通到; 导致 sophisticated复杂的; 精良的 engineering efforts such as dams and aqueducts（输水道）. At the height of the Roman Empire, nine major systems, with an innovative layout布局,安排of pipes and well-built sewers ?污水管, supplied the occupants居住者of Rome with as much water per person as is provided in many parts of the industrial world today.（第21题） 【重点词组】be entwined with 与…缠绕，结合 The oak was entwined with ivy. 橡树被常春藤缠绕着。 A vine entwined the rod. 藤蔓缠住那根棒子。 They walked along with their fingers entwined. 他们手挽着手一路走。 leading to通到; 导致 the winding road leading to the hut 通向小屋的蜿蜒曲折的路 He studied the cycle of events leading to the Great Depression. 他研究了导致大萧条的一系列事件。 B During the industrial revolution and population explosion of the 19th and 20th centuries, the demand for water rose dramatically. Unprecedented construction of tens of thousands of monumental（指建筑物﹑ 雕塑等）巨大而了不起的engineering projects designed to control floods, protect clean water supplies, and provide water for irrigation and hydropower水力发电brought great benefits to hundreds of millions of people. Food production has kept pace with soaring猛增的,剧增的populations mainly because of the expansion of artificial人工的, 人造的irrigation systems that make possible the growth of 40% of the worlds food. （第22题）Nearly one fifth of all the electricity generated worldwide is produced by turbines涡轮 spun使某物快速旋转by the power of falling water.【重点词汇】dramatically [dr?m?tik