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课时分层作业(七)
Ⅰ.单词拼写
1.Cameras were set up at strategic points along the route(路线).
2.Length is one dimension, and breadth(宽度) is another.
3.As everybody can see, the truck was carrying a load(大量) of bananas.
4.Located in the northwest of Beijing, the Summer Palace is by far the city's bestpreserved royal (皇家的)garden.
5.We could see a glimmer of light on the far shore(滨岸).
6.The captain(队长) of a sports team is the player in charge of it.
7.A federal judge dismissed(去除) the charges against the doctor yesterday.
8.He was one of the most influential (有很大影响力的) performers of modern jazz.
9.The key question of what caused the leak(泄漏) remains unanswered.
10.The animal kingdom(王国) is full of fine and glorious creatures.
Ⅱ.阅读理解
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Transportation shapes the world: along with communications, it forms a global net that connects person to person, city to city, and country to country.Transportation routes as well as vehicles are vital to the functioning and spread of every civilization.
A country's economy depends on reliable transportation.Cities spread out along roads, rivers, and rails; so does information.Until the 20th century, these routes were confined to land or water.With the invention of the powered flight, the air became an open road as well.The earliest way of traveling was undoubtedly by foot, and humans' earliest means of transporting goods was carrying loads on their backs or shoulders.By 4000 BC, people were using domesticated animals for transport, a method greatly improved in some parts of the world by the invention of the wheel, probably first developed around 3500 BC.
Until the 19th century, animals were the engines of land transportation.But with the invention of the steam engine and the internal combustion engine, railroads and automobiles revolutionized travel and trade.Millions of cars and trucks travel the world today.
Water transport has always been a fast and efficient mode of travel, and even today it remains a primary way of transportation of heavy goo