二、巩固与拓展:
1.But we must keep in head the billions of dollars we might spend in carrying out the project
___________
2. In every home a stereo or television will fill the rooms sound and joy. __________
3. The family’s recreation and social life chiefly consisted a drive in the wagon _____
to the nearby small town or village to transact some business as well as to chat with neighbors who had also come to town.
4. Some manufacturers of coffee makers are trying to make advantage of this _____
trend by developing diminutive machines that brew(煮)small amounts of coffee.
5. In Africa, by instance, improved seed, more fertilizer and advanced __________
growing practices have more than doubled corn and wheat yields in an experiment.
三、综合训练
Unlike any earlier building complex anywhere in the world, Rocke-
Feller in New York City was built, not for a place where people could 1. _______
live in, but as a city in which they could work. It was one of the 2._______
smallest building projects of its kind, a city within city, and of the forerunner 3. ____
of projects that has sprung up all over the world. 30 architects, 120 draftsmen, 4. __
and hundreds of other artists and technicians are employed just to 5. ______
draft the plan. Before the buildings could be erect, 229 old buildings had 6. _____
to be emptied of 4,000 tenants and razed. Just to buy up the leases took
over two years and cost over $6,000,000. The unusual shape and setbacks
of the 70-story RCA building resulted primary from practical considerations 7. ______
such as lighting, the movement of people and the building’s services.
The lower concourse and basement level were set aside for shops. A
Sunken plaza, complete with yards and fountains, were designed to provide 8. ____
access in these shops. Today the plaza, which is used for ice-skating 9. _____
winter and dining and dancing in summer,
is one of the center’s most popular attraction. 10. _________