River deltas are difficult places for map makers. The river builds them up, the sea wears them down; their outlines are always changing. The changes inChina'sPearl Riverdelta, however, are more dramatic than these natural fluctuations. An island six kilometers long and with a total area of 1248 hectaresis being created there. And the civil engineers are as interested in performance as in speed and size. This is a bit of the delta that they want to endure.
The new island of Chek Lap Kok（赤腊角）, the site of Hong Kong's new airport, is 83% complete. The giant dumper trucks rumbling across it will have finished their job by the middle of this year and the airport itself will be built at a similarly breakneck pace.
As Chek Lap Kok rises, however, another new Asian island is sinking back into the sea. This is a 520-hecrare island built in Osaka 大坂（おさか）Bay, Japan, that serves as the platform. for the new Kansai関西（かんさい）airport. Chek Lap Kok was built in different way, and thus hopes to avoid the same sinking fate.
好，同学们。现在我开讲了。不知道我上面一篇文章你们看了没有，主要是把剑2题中的第一套题的第一篇阅读理解的文章部分给大家罗列了出来。对我本人而言并不知道我的这种文章在网上会有什么样的反响，我只想为济南的学生，特别是环球的学生做点什么。因为在课堂上我也讲过，英语的学习是一个循序渐进的过程，任何的投机取巧都会在浩瀚的英语文章中被淹没.而同学们的英语阅读速度还真是不高，追究其原因还是英语的语法不够清晰，准确地说是对英语的句式结构一知半解，无法快速准确的理解句子含义；其次就是词彙的贫乏。这个看似没有任何讲解意义的词彙却让“各路神仙”败倒。所以我就站在了这里，我们马上进入正题.
这篇文章是一篇典型的说明文，也是深受雅思出题者喜欢的一种类型，而这篇文章对比了香港的“赤腊角机场”和日本大阪的“関西机场”的建造和结果，分析了他们之间的产生不同命运的原因。
★delta ['deltE] n.
1.the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet（Δ,δ）希腊字母表的第四个字母。
2.triangular area of alluviall and at a river's mouth, enclosed or crossed by branches of the rivers.（河口的）三角洲
the Nile Delta尼罗河三角洲
★wear sth. down: （causing sth to） become gradually smaller, thinner, etc.使某物逐渐变小，变细，变薄等
★outline:
1.lines showing the shape or outer edge of sth.轮廓，外形
She could see only the outlines of the trees in the dim light.朦胧中，她只看到树木的轮廓。
2.statement of the main facts or points要点，大纲，摘要
an outline of an essay/ a lecture
★dramatic:
1.of drama.戏剧的
a dramatic society戏剧协会
2.exciting or impressive戏剧性的，激动人心的，给人深刻印象的
dramatic changes, development, news激动人心的变化，发展，新闻
★fluctuate [;flVktSu'eiSn] n.变化，波动
wide fluctuations of temperature.温度的巨大变化
★hectare['hekteE]
measure of area in the metric system, equal to 100 ares or 10000 square metres.公顷
★civil ['sivl]
1.of or relating to the citizens of a country公民的，民间的，国内的
civil disorder民间的动乱
2.of or relating t ordinary citizens rather than the armed forces or the Church普通公民的，文职的，文官的
civil government文官政府
★dumper truck: small vehicle, used on building sites, etc, with a container that can be tilted to dump its contents.（建筑工地上使用的，有翻斗的）小型自卸载重车。
★rumble['rVmbl] v. make a deep heavy continuous sound发出持续的低沉的声音。
thunder rumbling in the distance远方发出隆隆雷声。
★breakneck['breiknek] adj. [作定语] dangerously fast快的危险的
drive at breakneck speed
★Osaka:大坂（おさか）日本的第二大城市。
★Kansai:関西（かんさい）在这里说的是大阪的机场“関西机场”
