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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：英国牛津建造工程颇具震撼 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：英国牛津建造工程颇具震撼 GRE考试精品课程指导  It is the biggest construction boom since the Middle Ages  这是中世纪以来最 大的建造活动  IN HIS book “Notes from a Small Island”, Bill Bryson, an American author, took exception to some of Oxfords 20th-century architecture. It is, he wrote, as though the city had said to itself, “Weve been putting up handsome buildings since 1264; lets have an ugly one for a change.”  美国作家Bill Bryson在书中如此写道“源自一个小岛的记录‘。他把牛津地区20世纪的一些建筑物当做特例。他写道，“1264年以来我们已经建造了许多美观的建筑;为了改变，来造一个丑陋的吧。”  Much of Oxford is beautiful. A quarter of the university is listed. Some buildings date back to 1424. But in the 1960s planners added ugly shopping centres, offices and even college buildings that drain the beauty from the city centre. Now a building programme is under way that aims to avoid such errors, and even reverse a few.  牛津有许多漂亮建筑。这所大学四分之一的建筑物都名列在册。一些的建筑日期可以追溯到1424年。不过在20世纪60年代，设计者新建了难看的商业中心、办公楼，甚至学院建筑都叫城市中心失去美丽。现在有一个建筑计划正在施行，这个计划将避免上述错误，并且可以挽救些许失去的美好。  Some of the construction is driven by the need to upgrade facilities in order to keep Oxford globally competitive. In 2014 it was ranked Britains top research university, yet some departments are still housed in converted Victorian houses. Post-war buildings in the Science Area have been demolished. Their replacements will encourage inter-disciplinary work. There is a push, too, for links with business, as pioneered by Oxfords old rival, Cambridge, where builders have also been busy. One new hub outside Oxford city centre, the Bio Escalator, promotes commercial research in life sciences alongside academia; another, the Innovation Accelerator, focuses on advanced engineering.  有些建筑之所以修建，是为了更新设施以保证牛津大学在全球的竞争力。在2014年，尽管它有些部门还在维多利亚时代的屋子中办公，它还是英国最 顶尖的研究型大学。战后科学区修建的建筑已经拆掉了。继而修建的建筑将促进跨学科研究的发展。将之与商业联系在一起也是有推力的，牛津的老对手剑桥早就开始这么做了，剑桥的建筑修建活动也在热火朝天地进行。位于牛津城市中心之外的一个新实验中心，Bio Escalator，加强了生命科学的学术研究的同时也加强了其商业研究;另外，Innovation