【正文】 s started in 1959, years before the designs were finished. Utzon spent four years designing the Opera House. In 1962, the designs were finalized(定稿 ) and the construction began. In 1967， they started the decoration inside. It took 14 years in total to build the Opera House. Queen Elizabeth II officially opened it on October 20th,1973. The Sydney Opera House cost around ＄ 100 million and was paid for by the public. 6,225 square meters of glass was used to build it. The Opera House includes 1,000 rooms. It is 185 meters long and 120 meters wide. The building’ s roof sections weigh about 15 tons. Each year, this fantastic building attracts 200,000 tourists to e for a visit or enjoy events in it. The Opera House reaches out into the harbor(港灣 ). It is amazing and unfettable, offering people a strong sense of beauty. designer of the Sydney Opera House was from _______. A. America B. Australia C. England D. Denmark the Sydney Opera House lasted _______. A. from 1959 to 1973 B. from 1962 to 1973 C. from 1959 to 1967 D. from 1962 to 1967 underlined word “ construction” means _______in Chinese. 9. _______ paid for the cost of the building of the Sydney Opera House. A. Utzon public C. Queen Elizabeth II government is the best title for the passage? A. Sailing Roof B. Travelling in Sydney C. The Sydney Opera House D. The Opening of the Opera House C There are several ways you can find out about the countries and places you wish to visit. You can talk to friends who have traveled to the places, you can go and see a colour film about them, or you can read travel books. It seems that there are three kinds of travel books. The first are those that give a personal, subjective(主觀的 ) idea of travels which the writer has got himself. These books can be useful if the writers share their traveling experiences with others. The second kind are those books which give objective( 客觀的 ) information of things to be done and seen. If a cultured person has written such a book about the facts of a place, then it is more useful. The third kind are those books which are called a guide to some place or other. If they are good, they will describe and explain the place in detail. Like the first kind, they can be interesting and exciting, but their main purpose is to help the reader plan his travel in the most practical way. Whatever kind of travel book you choose, you must make sure that the book does not describe everything as interesting, exciting or fantastic. You must also keep an open eye on its date of publication(出版 ) because travel is a very practical matter and many things change quickly in the 21st century. Finally, you should make sure that it39。s 9 . But when they e back to the bridge an hour later, it39。t built 2 , like Beijing or Shanghai, but on more than 110 islands. Seawater is 3 around the city. Even so, travel isn39。 to ( )4. There are _______ things in your room. Stop buying anything until you can clean up your room. A. so many B. less C. too much D. so much ( )5. You have to be _______ and wait until I finish my work. A. patient B. strict C. honest D. active ( )6. — What do you think of the movie by Zhao Wei? — Fantastic. I like ___very much. A. it B. him C. her D. you ( )7. — Who was knocking at the door just now? — _________was my cousin. A. He B. She C. They D. It ( ) price of cotton has ___a lot. As a result, the factories plan to ____the price of their cotton clothes. A. raised /raise B. raised /rise C .risen /raise D. risen/rise ( )9. The cave ____“the Art Palace of Nature”. A. is thou