Part I
1. Why do people build bridges? Where are bridges usually built?
2. Read the text quickly and choose the correct answers to the questions below. Don’t pay attention to the gaps.
| Where is the text from? | ||
| a | An engineering book about bridges | |
| b | A tourist guidebook | |
| Which is the best title for the text? | ||
| a | The Clifton Suspension Bridge | |
| b | Isambard Kingdom Brunel |
| The CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE is a (1) __________ bridge which means it doesn’t open or move to allow boats through. It was (2) __________ in the 1830s by one of Britain’s greatest nineteenth-century (3) __________ , Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The bridge was actually (4) __________in the 1860s. (5) __________ analysis of the design shows that many of the ideas are almost (6)__________ . When the bridge opened it was for carriages pulled by horses but 150 years later it carries 12,000 cars and lorries a day, that’s over four million (7) __________ a year. Strange but true: 1. In 1885 a young woman jumped off the Clifton Suspension Bridge. Her large, fashionable, nineteenth-century skirt acted as a (8) __________ and she landed safely after a 75m fall. She lived into her seventies. 2. The first (9) __________ flew under the bridge in 1911. The last plane was a jet travelling at 720kph in 1957; the (10) __________ crashed the plane and died. * (the text is from: “Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 19, pg.22, ex.2) |