寒假第三讲 完形+阅读理解 讲义-2023-2024学年上海市高一上学期英语上外版（2020)必修第三册

高一英语·秋季 Lesson 3 Reading Comprehension (2) Question Type Cloze 【语篇类型】说明文 【主题】灾害防范 Soak It Up Like a Giant Sponge On the evening of August 7,2015, just as Friday rush hour began, a brief storm drenched (浇透) parts of Beijing. The rainfall of three hours flooded many roads and _____1_____ traffic. Pictures of pedestrians walking slowly through _____2_____ water were soon posted on social media. Beijing, China's landlocked (内陆的) and generally _____3_____ capital, “now has sea views,” a typical mircoblogger remarked. Urban Chinese are becoming too _____4_____ with such experiences. Across central and southern China this year, flooding caused by _____5_____ rainfall has affected over 60 million people, with more than 200 killed and 147 billion yuan in losses. Are there any effective ways to _____6_____ China's urban inhabitants from floods? In December 2013,President Xi Jinping announced a “sponge city” program to _____7_____ flooding in the cities. Six-teen cities were selected as pilots (试点) for the national plan. During the _____8_____ of urban drainage (排水) systems, designers were advised to make it a priority to _____9_____ valuable water resources and to use the natural system to achieve drainage. To reach the goal, permeable (可渗透的) materials and green spaces will be used to soak up rainfall. Rivers and _____10_____ will be interconnected so that water can flow away from flooded areas. The sponge city program seeks _____11_____ from similar projects in some developed countries. _____12_____, nothing at this scale has ever been attempted. “The sponge city program is more comprehensive (全面的) and ambitious,” says Ha Wenmei, head of the China water management team at Arcadis, which is working on the program in Wuhan. It has been six years since the sponge city program began, but it's still too early to tell if it will be _____13_____. While the program is facing great challenges like the ever increasing urban population, it is seen as a _____14_____change. Previously