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1、TheLightattheEndoftheChunnelANewEnglishCourseUnitFiveReadingOneCONTENTSBackgroundInformationListening,Organization&MainIdeasAnalysisoftheTextDiscussingthefollowingquestionsOralWorkAssignmentsTheEnglishChannelItiscommonlycalledtheChannel,isanarmoftheAtlanticOceanseparati
2、ngthesoutherncoastofEnglandfromthenortherncoastofFrance,andconnectingtheAtlanticinthewestwiththeNorthSeaontheeastviatheStraitofDover.Itis34to240km.(21-150miles)wideand560km.(350miles)long.TheChannelisatitsnarrowestbetweenDoverinEnglandandCapeGris-Nez,nearCalais,inFrance
3、,itbeing34km.(21miles)wide.Itsaveragedepthdecreasesfrom120to45meters(400-150feet).TheChunnelThewordChunnelisablendofthetwowordsChannelandTunnel.TheChannelTunnel(French:letunnelsouslaManche),orChunnel,isa50.450km(31.35mi)longrailtunnelbeneaththeEnglishChannelattheStraito
4、fDover,connectingFolkestone,KentintheUnitedKingdomtoCoquellesnearCalaisinnorthernFrance.Itwasamegaprojectwithseveralfalsestarts,butitwasfinallycompletedin1994.Itisthesecond-longestrailtunnelintheworld,withtheSeikanTunnelinJapanbeinglonger,buttheunderseasectionof37.9km(2
5、3.55miles)isthelongestunderseatunnelintheworld.ItisoperatedbyEurotunnel.TheAmericanSocietyofCivilEngineershasdeclaredthetunneltobeoneoftheSevenWondersoftheModernWorldTheChannelTunnelexhibitattheNationalRailwayMuseuminYork,England.TheexhibitshowsacrosssectionoftheChannel
6、TunnelandaEurostartrain.OpeningoftheChannelTunnelbyQueenElizabethIIandFrenchPresidentFrançoisMitterrand世界长大隧道表隧道名称国家长度(公里)开通时间西姆普龙隧道意大利、瑞士201906年阿尔卑斯隧道意大利18．51934年什卡姆门水下隧道日本18．71975年达水米促隧道日本22．21983年谢坎水下隧道日本53．91988年英吉利海峡隧道英国、法国49．41994年中国也计划在本世纪修建大连一烟台、台湾海峡、琼州海峡等五个跨海长大
7、隧道。In1066,William,DukeofNormandy,France,conqueredEnglandandbecameKingWilliamIofEnglandIn1154KingHenryIIrecoveredtheEnglishthroneIn1337,EdwardIIIofEngland(1327-1377)tookthetitleofKingofFrance.DuringKingHenryVIII’sreign(1509-1547),EnglandagaininvadedFranceandexpandedithol
8、dingsaroundCalais.From1689to1815therewasaseriesofconflictsbetweenBritainandFrancefordominationoftheNorthAmeric
