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Reading 3,4 Highlighted Sentences
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2. As the amount of extractable energy is directly proportional to the distance between reservoir
and substation, // it is therefore prudent to build towering dams that hold tremendous
amounts of water.
3. Because estuaries often have (a high volume of sediments) moving through them to the
sea, // (the introduction of a barrage) reduces their dispersal and accumulates
(concentrations of pollutants) within the basin, /leading to increased bacteria growth.
Pollute =>pollutant
4. Current wave energy systems place objects on the water’s surface and yield power by raising
and falling [with the motion of the surf (as an oscillating action within their internal
mechanism) pivots a turbine that can send electricity through an undersea cable to a power
station on the shore].
(1) Wave energy puts objects on surface and make power with motions that move up and
down
(2) The up and down motions within the machine rotate turbine
(1) Coastal settlers had convenient way to get products because they are near ocean
6. Besides, because the strip of land between Lake Erie and the Mohawk River rises up almost
600 feet (183 meters), and canal technology of the time could only manage a change of up to
12 feet (3.5 meters), safe passage would require the implementation of 84 separate canal
locks, engineered contraptions that enable a boat to pass a section of the canal at one water
level to another section at a different water level, but do not allow water to flood from the
higher elevation into the lower.
게다가, Erie 강부터 Mohawk 강까지의 땅은 거의 600 피트에 다다랐고, 당시의 수로 기술은 12
피트까지만 감당할 수 있었기에, 안전 수로 통로는 84 개의 분리된 수문이 필요했는데, 수문이란
높은 곳에서 낮은 지역으로 갈 때 물이 흐르지 않게 막아주면서 배가 운하의 한 구간을 통과해서
다른 수위를 갖는 다른 구간으로 이동할 수 있는 기술적 장치이다.
(2) Canal technology was limited =>Need safe passage with canal locks
(3) Canal lock is a device that make boat pass but without flooding
7. Nationwide demand for products from the state became so high that within a decade, New
York had become the busiest port in America, with thousands of boats coming in and out
daily, moving tonnages greater than those of Boston, Baltimore, and New Orleans.
(1) Because of high demand from the country, NY became the busiest port with large number
of products moved around.
8. While canal traffic historically flowed to the west, the current changed once the Great Lakes
region established itself as the heart of national agriculture, and by the middle of the 19th C,
the majority of trade along the canal headed east with the tonnage of staples more than
doubling.
이전에는 운하를 통한 운송이 주로 서쪽을 향했으나 Great Lake 지역이 국가 농업의 중심지가
되면서 이런 흐름이 바뀌었고, 19 세기 중반에 들어서며, 운하를 따라 행해지는 무역 중 대부분이
두 배로 늘어난 주요 산물의 용적톤수와 함께 동쪽을 향하게 되었다.
(2) After: Great Lake became agriculture center, canal transports to east, more trading items.