TEXT C The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the worlds greatest suspension bridges and acclaimed also as the worlds most beautiful bridge. The Golden Gate, which this bridge spans, is a broad, deep three-mile strait, connecting the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. The Golden Gate Bridge is 8450 feet long from abutment to abutment, exclusive of approaches. Painted red-orange, it contrasts with the greens, browns and blues of its setting and surroundings. Its towers rise above the Golden Gate to the height of a 65-story building, and its roadway structure suspended from the great main cables which pass over the lofty towers, rides above the waters at a 19-story height. The largest ships can sail under this bridge. The Golden Gate Bridge is a result of will and action. In 1917, the city of San Francisco asked Jaseph B Strauss, the extraordinary bridge builder and designer to tackle the problem of bridging the Gate, a problem generations of San Franciscans had regarded as insoluble and impossible. Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge was started on January 5, 1933. Through nearly five years of actual building, slowed and delayed often by elements no human could control, the work went on bit by bit until it was completed in 1937. On May 27 of the same year it was opened to pedestrian traffic as a gala event and to regular vehicular and pedestrian traffic on the following day. The Golden Gate Bridge has been admired by visitors from all over the world. They admire its living grace in its magnificent setting. They respond to its many moods, its warm and vibrant glow in the early sun its seeming play with ,or disdain of , incoming fog; its retiring, shadowy form before the sunset; its lovely appearance in its lights at night. To residents of the San Francisco Bay area, the Golden Gate Bridge is looked upon as the "Statue of Liberty" of the Pacific.
73. After you read the introduction to the Golden Gate Bridge, you know "Golden Gate" refers to ______.
A) a place near San Francisco
B) a big door near the bay
C) a bridge
D) a strait
74. The Golden Gate Bridge is ______
A) 8500 feet long.
B) more than 8500 feet with approaches excluded.
C) more than 8500 feet with approaches included.
D) 8500 feet long with approaches included.
75. The Golden Gate Bridge's colour is ______
A) golden.
B) a mixture of red and orange.
C) a mixture of green, brown and blue.
D) both A and B
76. Which of the following statements is true?
A) The Golden Gate Bridge is the world's most beautiful bridge.
B) The Golden Gate Bridge could have been finished much earlier without the disturbing of some delicate elements.
C) It was not until May 28, 1938 that the bridge was opened to regular vehicular traffic.
D) The "Statue of Liberty" is near the Golden Gate Bridge.
TEXT D What characterized Trippe thereafter was an uncanny ability to pace his airlines growth with the range of the airliner as it slowly evolved: first crawling from island to island across the Caribbean and into Mexico, then extending to Central and South America. Finally, it was Trippes backing of the flying boat, the first Pan Am Flying Clippers, that pioneered global routes: across the Pacific and, in the late 1930s, across the Atlantic. By the end of World War II, Trippe had in place a route system that was truly global. Before anyone else, he believed in airline travel as something to be enjoyed by ordinary mortals, not just a globe-trotting elite. In 1945 other airlines didnt think or act that way. Trippe decided to introduce a "tourist class" fare from New York to London. He cut the round-trip fare more than half, to 275 (1,684 in todays dollars, which makes current pricing a bargain, right?) This sent over like a lead balloon in the industry, where air fares were fixed by a cartel, the International Air Transport Association; it didnt want to hear about the tourist class. Incredibly, Britain closed its airports to Pan Am flights that had tourist seats. Pan Am was forced to switch to remote Shannon, Ireland. The industrys aversion to competition and making travel affordable was to have a long life, as Sir Freddie Laker would discover in the 1970s and Virgin Atlantic nearly a decade later.
77. Which of the following is true?
A) Trippe's airline developed too quickly.
B) Trippe's airline developed in proportion to the places his planes could reach.
C) Trippe's airline developed first in Central America, then in the Caribbean area.
D) Trippe's Flying Clippers followed the route across the Pacific during World War I.
78. Before 1945, the one-way trip fare from New York to London was about ______
A) '275.
B) '550.
C) more than 275.
D) less than 275.
79. The writer thinks that today's flying fare is ______
A) much more expensive than that in 1945.
B) as much as that in 1945.
C) much cheaper than that in 1945.
D) not mentioned.
80. Which of the following didn't want to accept the idea of "tourist class"?
A) Virgin Atlantic.
B) Sir Freddie Laker.
C) The cartel in flying business.
D) Pan Am.
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