Egg的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day0

练习材料:

Lesson64 The Channel Tunnel

In l858,

a French engineer, Aime Thome de Gamond,

arrived in England with a plan for a twenty-one-mile tunnel under the English Channel.

He said that it would be possible to build a platform in the centre of the Channel.

This platform would serve as a port and a railway station.

The tunnel would be well-ventilated if tall chimneys were built above sea-level.

In 1860,

a better plan was put forward by an Englishman, William Low.

He suggested that a double railway tunnel should be built.

This would solve the problem of ventilation,

for if a train entered this tunnel,

it would draw in fresh air behind it.

Forty-two years later a tunnel was actually begun.

If, at the time,

the British had not feared invasion,

it would have been completed.

The world had to wait almost another 100 years for the Channel Tunnel.

It was officially opened on March 7, 1994,

finally connecting Britain to the European continent

应用配置：L0+L4

练习感悟：周一，心的开始。一早把孩子们送去上学了，冬天的早晨，重庆，不冷，我最喜欢重庆的冬天。新概念直到今天，没有所谓的坚持，而是一种习惯，就如走路睡觉一样，希望把这个习惯永远继续下去，无论自己的英文能力有多少提高，必须做。