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2015届高考英语总复习冲刺阶段经典课件系列突破阅读理解及书面表达 (8).ppt


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So_here':The entire system—all 1,050 km and 468 stations of it—is shut down,much of it flooded with corrosive(腐蚀性的)salt Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) freely admits it has never faced anything like the severe① damage from Hurricane Sandy,and has absolutely no idea when the system will be up and running.“We'll know it after everything is
done,”says MTA spokesman Charles the good news is—well,never isn't ,it's that bad,and if there's no telling when things will be repaired,there's even less ways of knowing what the eventual price tag② will ,there are lessons to be learned from the current③ emergency for both New York itself and urban planners everywhere;the question is whether they'll be heeded.
New York's woes(难题)are partly a function④.New York's subway system is 108 years tunnels and stations are located close to or under rivers and harbors,and water seepage(渗水)is unavoidable.“We have three pump trains,300 pump rooms and dozens of portable pumps around the system,”says Seaton.“Even on a day when there's no rain,we pump out 13 million gallons of water.”
Hurricane Sandy,of course,put a lot more stress on the system than an ordinary rainless water in lower Manhattan rose to m,beating the record of 3 m set by Hurricane Donna in of Manhattan below 40th without subway system will ever be truly immune⑤ to weather is especially so in great cities like New York,whose very greatness in part depends on their nearness to rivers,harbors and other bodies of water.
But spending money on the city's basic transport sys­tem is perfectly possible,and indeed essential⑥.That kind of preventive investment always seems too expensive at first,but only until you're suddenly faced with the much higher repair bills New York is dealing with as oceans

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