1. The officer in the control tower was very angry when he heard the news, because balloons can be a great danger to aircraft.
    控制塔上的官员得知这一消息后，非常气愤，因为气球有可能给飞机造成极大的危险。

2. The great statue, which was designed by the sculptor Auguste Bartholdi, took ten years to complete.
    这座由雕像家奥古斯特.巴索尔地设计的巨大雕像是用10年时间雕像刻成的。

3. The world´s great religions originated from Asia: Buddhism from India, Christianity from Palestine, Islam from Arabia.
    世界上的几大宗教起源于亚洲：佛教源于印度，基督教源于巴勒斯坦，伊斯兰教源于阿拉伯。

4. There are over 80 pyramids in Egypt, but the Great Pyramid is the largest of all.
    在埃及，有80多座金字塔，大金字塔是其中最大的一座。

5. The Great Pyramid was built nearly five thousand years ago for a king called Khufu.
    大金字塔是在大约5000年以前，为胡夫国王建造的。

6. The Great Pyramid is over 450 feet high today, and it was once higher.
    今天我们看到的大金字塔有450多英尺高，过去还要高一些。

7. There was great rejoicing in the country, and he was hailed as the hero who had made an epoch-making discovery.
    全国一片欢腾，人们把他誉为做出了划时代发现的英雄，

8. The savanna is the home of great herds of animals — antelopes of many varieties, zebras, giraffes, elephants, and rhinoceroses.
    热带草原是一大群动物——各种羚羊、斑马、长颈鹿、大象和犀牛的栖息地，

9. The great characteristic of the Nile is the regularity of its floods.
    尼罗河的最大特征就是河水定期泛滥。

10. The story of a great river is very often the story of a great civilization.
    一条大河的历史往往就是一种伟大文明的发展史。