职称英语考试

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【单选题】

The World's Longest Bridge Rumor has it that alegendary six-headed monster lurks in the deep waters of the Tyrrhenian Seabetween Italy and the island of Sicily. (46)When completed in 2010, the world'slongest bridge will weigh nearly 300,000 tons — equivalentto the iceberg that sank the Titanic — and stretch 5kilometers long. “That's nearly 50 percent longer thanany other bridge ever built,”says structural engineerShane Rixon.

(47) They're suspension bridges, massivestructures built to span vast water channels or gorges. A suspension bridgeneeds just two towers to shoulder the structure's mammoth weight, thanks tohefty supporting cables slung between the towers and anchored firmly in deeppools of cement at each end of the bridge. The Messina Strait Bridge will havetwo 54,100-ton towers, which will support most of the bridge's load. The beefycables of the bridge, each 1.2 meter in diameter, will hold up the longest andwidest bridge deck ever built.

When construction begins on the Messina StraitBridge in 2005, the first job will be to erect two 370 meter-tall steel towers.(48) Getting these cables up will be something. It's not just their length — totally 5.3 kilometers — but their weight.(49)

After lowering vertical“suspender”cables from the main cables,builders will erect a 60 meter-wide 54.630-ton steel roadway, or deck — wide enough to accommodate 12 lanes of traffic. The deck's weightwill pull down on the cables with a force of 70,500 tons. In return, the cablesyank up against their firmly rooted anchors with a force of 139,000 tons — equivalent to the weight of about 100,000 cars. Those anchors areessential. (50)

A Some environmentalists are against theproject on biological grounds.

B What do the world's longest bridges have incommon?

C If true, one day you might spy the beastwhile zipping (呼啸而过) across the Messina Strait Bridge.

D They're what will keep the bridge from goinganywhere.

E The second job will be to pull two sets ofsteel cables across the strait, each set being a bundle of 44,352 individualsteel wires.

F They will tip up the scales at 166,500 tons — more than half the bridge's total mass.

网考网参考答案：C、B、E、F、D
大数据分析：根据网考网与考试题库的统计分析，该试题：
67%的考友选择了A选项
14%的考友选择了B选项
8%的考友选择了C选项
5%的考友选择了D选项
4%的考友选择了E选项
2%的考友选择了F选项
考友解析与评论：
 · 我做了好几遍答案都是C、B、E、F、D
 · 我全答错了
 · 这个题，确定是C、B、E、F、D了？