To keep the lean within this limit, Burland told the British Association about the new method of pumping grout immediately under the base of the tower. More than 300 tons of grout were pumped in during construction. The tower’s, additional lean went between 10 and 25 millimetres, but never passed 27.5 millimetres.
After the construction work was completed in late 1997, a review of movements in nearby walls showed that the building was in better shape than had been thought before and the safety limit was raised to 35 millimetres before any action needs to be taken.
Since 1997,the tower has continued to lean, Burland told Modern Construction.The latest measurements, taken this year, suggest that the tower’s lean had just reached 35 millimetres. But following regular re-examinations of the tower, experts are sure that the tower has stabilised 稳定. A spokesman for London Underground says: “We understand the tower has stabilised and returned to its normal movement cycle.”
From Modern Construction, 16 September 2000
Question 2:We can infer from the article that________.
A.the tower of Big Ben with damage the Houses of Parliament
B.the Jubilee line should be stopped in Burland’s opinion
C.the writer is blaming Burland for making a mistake
D.the propping up work has proved to be successful
3.The use of the word imitation模仿)reminds me that we ought to make some more comments on the risk of people imitating what they see on the screen in the way of crime犯罪)or violence.First there was always a risk of children acting out scenes which could be dangerous.For example,I remember a woman who was head of a middle school telling me that she had happened to look out of her window when the children were in the playground and had seen them putting a small boy on a chair with a rope round his neck and the rope over the branch of a tree;fortunately she was in time to get there before the child was hung.I remember a film in particular in which the hero who was imprisoned had escaped by electrocuting通电触死)his guard,the technique of doing this being shown in detail.This was the kind of scene which we could cut for these reasons.
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