1.(教材P51) The Great Wall of China is the longest manmade structure ever built(build).
2.(教材P53)Mao Zedong wrote a poem in which he dreamed of “walls of stone to hold back clouds and rain till a smooth lake rises in the narrow gorges”.
3.(教材P53)The Three Gorges Dam, which is the biggest construction project in China since the building of the Great Wall and the Grand Canal, has been built to control flooding and provide hydroelectric power for the central region of China.
4.(教材P53)Sun Yatsen,who was the leader of the 1911 Revolution, first suggested the idea of a dam across the Yangtze River in 1919.
5.(教材P53)More than a million people who lived in the region have moved from their homes.