七年级下知能训练Unit 2 ，P14 阅读理解原文，译文

       In 1173, the people of Pisa, Italy, want to build a bell tower . They wanted to the best tower to be th emost beautiful bell tower in all of Italy. The city also needed a bell tower because the church did not have one.

     However,there was a problem. As soon as the first floor of the building was finished, the tower started to lean. Builders tried to make the building straight again as they added more floors, but they couldn't figure out how to make it stop leaning.

    It took almost 180 years to finish the tower.Since then,the tower has leaned by another millimetre every year. Today, the Leaning Tower has eight floors and is 54.5 metres tall. By 1990,it was leaning by about 4 metres to ine side. It was also slowly sinking into the ground. Many peoplebecame worried that it would soon fall apart.

    In 1998,repair work began on the tower, and by the end of 2001,it had been moved back by 45 centimetres. The tower will still lean.however, so it will need to be repaired again------ in another 200 tears.

Complete the following sentences

1 The people of Pisa wanted to build the tower, because __________________________.

2 The Leaning Tower began to lean _______________________________

3 The Tower was finished in _______________________________

4 Before being repaired, the tower leaned every year by another _________________.

    译文：在1173年，意大利比萨市人民想要建一座塔，他们想要这座塔成为意大利最漂亮的钟塔，这座城市也需要一座钟塔，因为教堂上没有。

    然而，出了一个问题，第一层楼完成后，塔开始倾斜，建筑师们在加建的同时尽力使它直立，但是他们就是不能想出如何使它不倾斜。

    花费几乎180年建成这座塔,之后,这座塔每年倾斜1毫米.如今,这斜塔有8层楼,54.5米高.到1990年,它倾斜到一边约4米.正慢慢地向地面倾斜,许多人担心它不久会塌方.

    1998年，塔的修建工作开始了,直到2001年末,它被移回45厘米,然而,这座塔还是斜的,所以它将重修在接下来的200年之内.

   以上译文由深圳家教·龙华家教谭老师亲笔翻译，录入，不当之处敬请指正，谢谢！答案略