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rite country? ’s Kate’s father’s job? Kate like Chinese food?“God made the world, but the Dutch made Holland.” True to this saying, the people of the Netherlands are again “making” their 1980 the Netherlands will plete a project begun in the 1920’s: transforming the Zyuder Zee, an inlet(小港)of the North Sea into dry land and a freshwater stages, 550,000 acres of land will serve several purposes: industrial, recreational, military, and by the river Yssel, the remaining water basin Lake Yssel, about 300,000 acres will irrigate the surrounding land and help in the fight against salination(鹽化作用).Excess water will drain through sluices into the the first stop a nineteenmilelong barrier dam, rising twentyfive feet above sea level, closed the entrance to the Zuider the experimental polder of a hundred acres preceded the first and smallest of the main polders fifty thousand acres that became dry land in fifth and largest polder 150,000 acres will be the last of the Zuider Zee for the new polder(開拓地)e from every Eastern Flevoland polder, pleted in 1957, became farmland for many from the province of Zealand which was badly hit by the disastrous floods of article gives a presentday example of soils are desalinated Netherlands has increased its land area systems are built are constructed period taken for the Zuider Zee project 1900 up to 1960 the 1920 till about 1980 1930 to 1957 than fifty years Zuider Zee will be replaced ,000 acres of land ,000 acres of fresh water A and B A nor B article gives a measurement for of the barrier dam of the barrier dam of the road along the dam above sea level of the area on the land side of dam but not stated: first step in the project was a barrier polder recipe was first used in this of the Netherlands is below sea is more than one method of fighting B C D A During the Christmas shopping rush in London, the intriguing story was reported of a tramp(流浪漢)who, apparently through no fault of his own, found himself locked in a wellknown chain store late on Christmas doubt the store was crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers and the staff were dead beat and longing to get all the proper Security checks were made before the store was locked and they left to enjoy the threeday holiday untroubled by customers desperate to get last minute Christmas presentsHowever that may be, our tramp found himself alone in the store and decided to make the best of was food, drink, bedding and camping equipment, of which he made good must also have been television sets and radios Though it was not reported if he took advantage of these facilities, when the shop reopened, he was discovered in bed with a large number of empty bottles beside seems to have been a man of good humor and philosophic temperamentas indeed vagrants(流浪漢)very monly also was enjoying Christmas, so he saw no good reason why he should not do the submitted, cheerfully enough, to being taken way by the he had bad a better Christmas than was sent to prison for Seven judge awarded no pensation to the chain store for the food and drink our tramp had had, in his opinion, already received valuable free publicity from the coverage the story received in the newspapers and on the judge had had a good Christmas tramp was locked in the store____ his to a an error of staff were 39。dead beat39。 means they were _____ action did the tramp take? He_____ the himself at to sleep for 2 a Christmas the tramp was arrested, he _____ at the forward to going to pr) his bottles with 39。t make any didn39。t the judge award pensation to the chain store? tramp had stolen nothing of store had profited by the tramp deserved a happy store was responsible for what (apparently through no fault of his own)第一段中找答案(No doubt the store was crowded with last minute Christmas shoppers and the staff were dead beat and longing to get home.)(He submitted, cheerfully enough, to being taken way by the police.)(They had, in his opinion, already received valuable free publicity from the coverage the story received in the newspapers and on television.)