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Unit 1 CULTURAL HERITAGE 文化遗产
FROM PROBLEMS TO SOLUTIONS
Economic development is necessary if we want to improve society. There comes a time when the old must give way to the new, and it is not possible to ___1___ (阻止)everything from our past as we move towards the future. Finding and keeping the right ___2____(平衡)between progress and the protection of cultural sites can be a big ____3___(挑战).
Big challenges, however, can sometimes lead to great ___4____(解决方案). In the 1950s, the Egyptian government wanted to build a new dam across the Nile in order to control floods, produce electricity, and supply water to more farmers in the area. But the__5____(提议)led to__6____(抗议). Water from the dam would ____7____(可能) damage a number of temples and destroy cultural relics that were an important part of Egypt’s cultural heritage. After listening to the scientists who had studied the problem, and citizens who lived near the dam, the government turned to the United Nations for help in 1959.
A ___8____ (委员会)was ____9____(建立) to ___10___ (限制,减少)damage to the Egyptian buildings and prevent the ___11___ (损失)of cultural relics. The group asked for ____12____(捐款) from different ___13___(部门)and raised __14___(资金)within the international community. Experts ___15_____(调查) the __16___(事件), ____17____(做实验) several tests, and then made a proposal for how the buildings could be saved. Finally, a ___18____ (文件)was signed, and the work began in 1960.
The project brought together governments and environmentalists from around the world. Temples and other cultural sites were taken down piece by piece, and then moved and put back together again in a place where they were ___19__(安全) from the water. In 1961, German engineers moved the first temple. Over the next 20 years, thousands of engineers and workers rescued 22 temples and countless cultural relics. Fifty countries ___20___(捐)nearly $80 million to the project.
When the project __21___(结束) in 1980, it was consider