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　　­ship作后缀表示"情况，性质，技巧，技能及身份，职业"。例如hardship困苦，苦难，membership资格；会员身份，friendship友谊

　　根据提示补全下列短语

　　1．pick ________ 　(开车)去接人；捡起；无意中学会

　　2．drop ________ 中途下客或卸货

　　3．lead ________ 导致

　　4．link ________ 联合，连接

　　5．________(...)intervals 每隔......距离或时间

　　6．accelerate the pace ________

　　 加速......的步伐

　　7．function________... 起......作用

　　8．________honour of 为纪念......；为了向......表示敬意

　　【答案】　1.up　2.off　3.to　4.up　5.at　6.of　7.as　8.in

　　根据提示补全下列教材原句

　　1．Why would many people choose to travel by airplane rather_than by ship?

　　人们为什么宁愿选择乘坐飞机而不愿坐船旅行？

　　2．Travelling on these lines was not convenient, though，as each line was possessed by a different company, and many were very far from each other.

　　然而搭乘这些线路并不方便，因为各条线路属于不同的公司，而且许多线路之间相距甚远。

　　3．Having_seen the situation, a wealthy American businessman, Charles Yerkes, undertook the job of improving the system in 1902 by obtaining ownership of the many different lines and setting up the Underground Electric Railways Company of London.

　　看到这种情况，一名叫查尔斯·耶基斯的美国富商于1902年承担起了改善地铁系统的工程，他买下许多不同的地铁线，创立了伦敦电力地铁公司。

4．So，why_not_take a trip on the oldest underground system today?