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M7U4 早读材料二（reading）
班级：__________ 姓名：__________
1) It has the d____________ of being the oldest and most c__________ underground system in the world.
2) Horse-drawn buses, trans, cabs and carriages were used to c_________ people to and around the city centre.
3) U__________, the number of vehicles on the road caused u__________ traffic jams, and the roads became o busy that no one could travel anywhere. 4) In 1854, the British government gave a___________ to the construction by the Metropolitan Railway Company of an underground railway in the centre of London.
5) However, new trains had to be developed and the plan required raising a large amount of money, so the digging was p__________ until 1860. 6) These new ways of digging a__________ the pace of the London Underground’s development.
7) Having seen the situation, a wealthy American businessman, Charles Yerkes, u__________ the job of improving the system in 1902 by obtaining o_________ of the many different lines and setting up the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.
8) The Underground Electric Railways Company of London, the Metropolitan Line and all the different bus and train lines were p________ under the a_________ of the Board.
9) After WWII ended in 1945, more people travelled on the underground, so the system was e______ and more lines were added, including the Victoria Line, which ___________________（被…相连）other lines at almost every station.
10)The last line added was the Jubilee Line, which was opened in 1979 __________________（为了纪念）the 25th a____________ of Elizabeth II becoming the queen.
11)它们决定加快速度以便提前完成体育场馆的建设。
They decided to _________ _________ _________ _________ construction so as to _________ _________ the gymnasium and sports fields earlier. 12) 由于不知道该乘哪趟公交车， 她向我求助。
_________ _________ which bus _________ _________, she ________ ________ me for help.
13) 见此情形，那位工程负责人决定采取措施，阻止可能带来不良影响的报道见报。 _________ _________ the situation, the man _________ _________ the project decided to take some action to prevent the news report which might _________ _________ negative consequences of the company from being released. 14) Doing work means moving an object _________________________（从一个
地方到另一个地方）.
So why not __________________（乘坐….观光）the newly-built underground system today?