新编六级听力练习 第246期

Test 11
Sydney Opera House must be one of the most recognizable images of the modern world-up there with the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building-and one of the most photographed. Not only is it recognizable, it has come to represent "Australia". Although only having been open since 1973, it is as (36) ______ of Australia as the pyramids are of Egypt and the Colosseum of Rome. The Opera House is (37) ______ on Bennelong Point, which reaches out into the harbour. The (38) ______ of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the blue water of the harbour and the Sydney Opera House, (39) ______ from a ferry or from the air, is (40) ______ and unforgettable. Ironic, perhaps, that this Australian icon was designed by (41) ______ Danish architect-Jorn Utzon. In the late 1950s the NSW Government established an appeal fund to (42) ______ the construction of the Sydney Opera House, and (43) ______ a competition for its design. Utzon's design was chosen. The irony was that (44) _____________________________________________________________ . Utzon spent a couple of years reworking the design. It was 1961 before (45) __________________________________________________________________________________ . The venture experienced cost blow-outs and there were occasions when the NSW Government was tempted to call a halt. (46) ________________________________________________________________________________ . In 1966 the situation reached crisis point and Jorn Utzon resigned from the project. The building was eventually completed by others in 1973.