首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
A、25 feet. B、8 meters. C、80 meters. D、25 meters. D
A、25 feet. B、8 meters. C、80 meters. D、25 meters. D
admin
2018-06-24
24
问题
Five years ago, some young thrill-seekers went underground in London. Collectively dubbing themselves “Consolidation Crew”, individually with names like “Urban Fox” and “Silent Motion”, their mission was to “explore everything”. What they did and still do is “place hack”—in other words, trespass on other people’s property.
(16)In 2011, they made “an epic discovery of the highest order”—a “silent nocturnal city”, some 25 meters (80 feet) below the streets of London, where the air was so still that calcium stalactites had formed. It felt, they wrote, “like we were in an Indiana Jones movie—hot, sweaty and dank”.
Urban Fox and company went down a steep iron spiral staircase and into a series of extraordinary miniature man-made tunnels. Just as they had hoped, they’d found the defunct British Post Office underground railway network—the so-called “Mail Train”. (17)The line runs along Oxford Street, under the department store Selfridges and Cavendish Square, and snakes along for 10 kilometers from Paddington in West London to Whitechapel in the East End. For trainspotters, this was a fabulous, almost mythical slice of railway ana—“the least documented railway line this side of the old Iron Curtain”. Only Post Office staff ever went down to these secret subterranean tunnels, where the world’s first driverless electric trains rattled back and forth at speeds of up to 55 kph (35 mph) for most of the 20th century.
(18)Londoners have long been pioneers in building underground, usually out of necessity. The Victorians began it; after the cholera epidemic of 1848-1849 and “The Great Stink” of 1858, an elaborate sewer system was built under the city designed by the “Sewer King”, Joseph Bazalgette.
Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.
16.How deep was the “silent nocturnal city” located below the streets of London?
17.Where does the line run along?
18.When did Londoners begin to build underground?
选项
A、25 feet.
B、8 meters.
C、80 meters.
D、25 meters.
答案
D
解析
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/IJ47777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
A、Whenhegraduatesfromcollege.B、Whenhehassparetime.C、Whenhefindsanewjob.D、Whenhehasenoughmoney.D对话中男士说他已经意识到
A、Heneedstorepairthehouse.B、Heneedstofixsomehomeappliances.C、Hehaslosthisjobandisshortofmoney.D、Heearns
A、Theywilllookmoreandmorealikeastimegoeson.B、Theywillbecomeincreasinglydependentoneachother.C、Theymightnot
A、Toknowtheirbusinesspartnerbetter.B、Toenjoythedishesonly.C、Tohavearelaxation.D、Toescapefromthecompany.A选项以T
A、It’sabout2,500pounds.B、It’sabout2,500dollars.C、It’sabout250pounds.D、It’sabout250dollars.B
ManyBrazilianscannotread.In12000,aquarterofthoseaged15andolderwerefunctionallyilliterate(文盲).Many【C1】______do
A、Itisbroken.B、Itneedscleaning.C、Itdoesn’tkeepgoodtime.D、Itisoutofbattery.D细节推断题。女士问男士她的手表问题出在哪儿?男士说itjustnee
Teacherburnoutandstudentstressmaybelinked,accordingtoaUniversityofBritishColumbiastudy.Thestudyisthefirs
Teacherburnoutandstudentstressmaybelinked,accordingtoaUniversityofBritishColumbiastudy.Thestudyisthefirs
A、25feet.B、8meters.C、80meters.D、25meters.D
随机试题
患儿,女性,1岁。发热伴咳喘3天,口周稍青紫。用鼻前庭导管吸氧,氧流量应为
a.requiredasaconditionforsomethingelseb.stocksandbondsc.abilitytosucceedinoperationd.apersonorthingthatc
下列哪项与瘀血的形成无关?
女性,66岁。反复咳嗽、咳痰,痰中带血3周。查体:体温38.5℃,白细胞14×109/L,胸片示左肺门肿块影,伴远端大片阴影,抗炎治疗阴影不吸收。根据表现,考虑其诊断为()
在以下何种情况下,行政复议机关应当作出驳回电请人复议请求的决定?
()是国家加强和改善宏观调控的重要手段,也是政府履行经济调节、市场监管、社会管理和公共服务职责的重要依据。
水泥稳定基层中,对水泥最主要的技术要求是()。
下列项目中,属于固定资产静态投资估算的是()。
2014年10月,美联储宣布退出已实施长达6年已久的QE(量化宽松)货币政策,而欧洲央行和日本央行则宣布进一步扩大QE货币政策。下列判断明显错误的是:
Whatwillthesonhavetodofirst?
最新回复
(
0
)