高鐵女神
——梁建英

2022-12-15 13:50:12山東孫啟祿

瘋狂英語·新讀寫 2022年12期

山東孫啟祿

主題語境：人物篇幅：363詞關鍵詞：engineer,high-speed rail

1Liang Jianying is the vice-president and chief engineer of China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation Qingdao Sifang,the company behind the Hexie and Fuxing bullet trains,which have pushed China to the position of a global powerhouse in high-speed trains.Liang and her team received the Special Prize of the 2015 State Scientific and Technological Progress Award for the development of the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway network.She is currently the director of the National Innovation Center of High Speed Train.

2In 2004,China published a plan to greatly expand the nation's railway system,thus kick-starting the era of high-speed rail.China had to import high-speed trains at that time,and Liang soon realized the importance of building the innovation capability and being selfsufficient in science and technology.Two years later,Liang was tasked with designing her first 300-kilometer-per-hour high-speed train.“The shoulders of giants can be shaky and hard to stand on.We have to become giants ourselves,”she said.

3But designing a bullet train is no easy task.A single train can contain over 500,000 components,and improving its speed from 200 km/h to 300 km/h means overcoming numerous technical obstacles.The challenge did not faze(使慌亂)Liang,and by December 2007,she created China's first high-speed train with a speed between 300 km/h to 350 km/h.In 2010,she broke the world speed record at the time with CRH380A,a bullet train from the Hexie series with an operation test speed of 486.1 km/h.

4In2017,the new and improved Fuxing series bullet train entered service,gradually becoming the mainstay of China's high-speed rails.As of the end of 2021,there were 1,191 Fuxing trains in operation and they had safely served over 1.37 billion passengers across approximately 1.36 billion kilometers.

5On July 20,2021,after five years of hard work by Liang and her team,China's first 600 km/h high-speed magnetic levitation train made its debut in Qingdao,Shandong Province.It is one of the fastest examples of ground-based public transportation in the world.

6“I believe that in the foreseeable future,there will be more Chinese high-speed trains with independent intellectual property debuting new styles and speeds,”Liang said.

Reading Check

1.What is the first paragraph mainly about?

A.China's position in high-speed trains.

B.A brief introduction to Liang Jianying.

C.The development of high-speed trains.

D.Liang Jianying's contributions to China.

2.What does Liang mean by saying“we have to become giants ourselves”?

A.We should learn from advanced countries.

B.We need the support of advanced countries.

C.We must make our country more powerful.

D.We have to rely on ourselves in science and technology.

3.What can we infer about Liang from the third paragraph?

A.She faced the challenge calmly.

B.Her aim was to break the world speed record.

C.Designing a bullet train is a piece of cake for her.

D.She was embarrassed at technical obstacles at first.

4.In which order does the author organize the text?

A.In order of time. B.In order of logic.

C.In order of space. D.In order of importance.

語篇解碼

本文是一篇記敘文，講述的是一個看起來普普通通、大大咧咧的東北女人，但她不普通的地方在于，她的肩上背負著幾乎國人的期望，她就是和諧號動車組的總設計師，被譽為“高鐵女神”的梁建英。

語言學習

Ⅰ.語料薈萃

Ⅱ.語句分析

1.Liang Jianying is the vice-president and chief engineer of China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation Qingdao Sifang,the company behind the Hexie and Fuxing bullet trains,which have pushed China to the position of a global powerhouse in high-speed trains.梁建英是中車青島四方機車車輛股份有限公司的副總經理兼總工程師，和諧號和復興號動車組隸屬該公司，這兩列動車組將中國推到了全球高速列車強國的位置。

【點石成金】Liang Jianying is the vice-president...Fuxing bullet trains是句子的主干，the company behind...Fuxing bullet trains是China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation Qingdao Sifang的同位語，which have pushed China to...in high-speed trains是which引導的非限制性定語從句。

2.In 2017,the new and improved Fuxing series bullet train entered service,gradually becoming the mainstay of China's high-speed rails.2017年，全新改良的復興號動車組投入使用，逐漸成為中國高速鐵路的支柱。

【點石成金】the new and improved Fuxing series bullet train entered service是句子的主干，gradually becoming the mainstay of China's high-speed rails是現在分詞短語作伴隨狀語。