新概念英语第三册课文填空训练17-Lesson 17 The longest suspension bridge in the world

新概念英语第三册Lesson 17 The longest suspension bridge in the world How is the bridge supported? Verrazano, an Italian about whom little is known, ______(sail) into New York Harbour in 1524 and ________(name) it Angouleme. He described=(________) it ____ 'a very agreeable ________ located within two small hills in the midst of ______ flowed a great river.' Though Verrazano is by no means _________to be a great explorer, his name will probably _______immortal , for ___ November 21st, 1964, the __________(long) suspension bridge in the world was _______(name) after him. The Verrazano Bridge, ____was ______(design)by Othmar Ammann,_____(join)Brooklyn to Staten Island. It has a span of _______ feet. The bridge is___ long ______ the ______ of the earth had to be taken into ________ by _____(it) designer. Two great towers _______four huge cables. =___________ The towers are ________(build) on immense underwater platforms ______(make) of steel and concrete. The platforms extend to a _______(deep) of over 100 feet under the sea. These alone______sixteen months _____________(build). Above the ______of the water, the towers rise to a _______(high) of nearly 700 feet. They support the cables from ______ the bridge has been suspended. Each of the four cables _________ 26,108 lengths of wire. It has been estimated that ___ the bridge were packed with cars, it would still only be carrying a _____(three)of its total capacity. ________, size and ________(strong) are not the only important things about this bridge. Despite ____(it) immensity, it is both_______ and elegant, ________(fulfill) its designer's dream to _______ 'an enormous object drawn as faintly as possible'. The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (also referred to as the Verrazzano Bridge, locally as the Verrazzano, and formerly as the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge or Narrows Bridge) is a suspension bridge in