Th e largest con tain er sh ip redefin in g efficien cy

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中国首艘全球最大的24000TEU 超大型集装箱船在沪交付。该船总长399.99米，比目前世界最大的航母还要长60多米，可承载24万吨货物。

主题语境：中国制造 篇幅：302词 建议用时：7分钟

1 China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC)has delivered the MSC Tessa megaship to Mediterranean Shipping Company.MSC Tessa is the largest container ship ever built.

2 Chinese shipbuilder Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding announced that it has delivered the giant container ship MSC Tessa to its owner Mediterranean Shipping Company(MSC), a Swiss-based container shipping giant, which has the largest orderbook by far in the industry with around 134 container ships on order including the latest contract.

3 This megaship built has a deck area roughly equal to four football fields.MSC Tessa can fit a total of 24,116 standard type containers by stacking up to 26 layers on its deck.The giant ship, 399.99 meters long and 61.5 meters wide,can carry more than 240,000 tons of cargo in one go.

4 The shipbuilder also states that the shaft generator, which can optimize energy efficiency,and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption,is also used for the first time.The shipbuilder also states that in addition to the first ship, the trials of the second ship of the family are over and the other two container ships are under construction.

5 On the other hand,MSC Tessa is not radically larger than other gigantic container ships of its kind,and the differences between them are minimal.However,a great deal of importance was given to efficiency in the design of the ship.The reason for this,of course,is port restrictions.To comply with these limits,the ship cannot be enlarged as desired.However,it is possible to see improvement thanks to space savings.As a matter of fact,the previous owner of this field, Maersk Triple-E, has been at the top for 12 years with a capacity of 18,000 containers.However, the capacity has been increased by 34 percent on the similarly sized MSC Tessa ship.

Reading Check

Inference1.What can we infer about MSC from the text?

A.It is suffering large business losses.

B.It produces ships of the best quality.

C.It produces the largest number of container ships.

D.It has received the most orders for container ships.

Detail2.What makes the ship MSC Tessa most remarkable?

A.Its age.B.Its size.

C.Its shape.D.Its material.

Vocabulary3.What does the underlined word“optimize”in paragraph 4 mean?

A.Control.B.Adjust.

C.Predict.D.Improve.

Detail4.What's an advantage of MSC Tessa over other container ships?

A.It has a much larger deck area.

B.It makes better use of limited space.

C.It's free from greenhouse gas emissions.

D.It has a design that prevents port restrictions.

Language Study

Ⅰ.Difficult sentence in the text

The shipbuilder also states that the shaft generator, which can optimize energy efficiency, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption, is also used for the first time.该造船厂还表示，轴带发电机也是首次使用，它可以优化能源效率，减少温室气体排放和燃料消耗。

【点石成金】本句是一个主从复合句。that引导的是一个宾语从句；该宾语从句含有一个which引导的非限制性定语从句，先行词是the shaft generator，该从句含有两个并列的谓语动词optimize 和reduce。

Ⅱ.Text-centered chunks

by far 最；……得多

be equal to 与……相等

in one go 一举；一下子

in addition to 除了；另外

be under construction 正在建设中

a great deal of 许多；大量