Everyone knows that the bells can tell the time. And some special bells can be used 1 a kind of instrument. In ancient China,people often danced to its music. In many temples of China,we can find them. They are 2 You can even strick (敲击）them.
However,have you seen a bell like this one? It is 6.75 metres high,3. 3 metres in diameter(直径）and .46. 5 tons(吨）in weight. You can 3 how large it is. Yes,the bell named the Yong Le Bell,is the largest one in China. Its loud and clear 4 could be heard .50 kilometres away at night when everything was quiet.
Even now it would be very 5 to make such a wonderful bell. But then there was a problem ： 6 could they move it to the temple? The big bell was made in their factory. The temple was on 7 side of the city. They had to move it through the streets across the city. At that time they had no 8 to lift it or move it for such a long way.
Finally they had an idea. They dug a small 9
from their factory to the temple. Then they poured water into it. In 10 the water in the small river froze to make an “ice road”. They tied thick wood to the bottom of the bell,pulled the bell to the ice and skated it along on top of the ice to the temple. Now the bell is stored in the Great Bell Temple in the west of Beijing. ( ) 1. A. by B. for C. to D. as ( ) 2. A. neither big nor small B. either big or small C. both big and small D. not only but also small ( ) 3. A. imagine B. see C. hear D. know ( ) 4. A. sound B. name C. noise D. shout ( ) 5. A. easy B. difficult C. interesting D. boring ( ) 6. A. what B. where C. why D. how ( ) 7. A. another B. the other C. others D. the others ( ) 8. A. time B. street C. place D. machine ( ) 9. A. lake B. river C. hole D. hill ( ) 10. A. winter B. summer C. autumn D. spring |