文档介绍：C9101阅读托福阅读CPassage 1 By the late eenth century, the focus for the engineers and builders of tunnels was beginning to shift from Europe to the United States and especially New York, where the rivers encircling Manhattan captured the imagination of测秃儿稀揉刺答附行浅绅腻软唁茸斡余秋涂腔格森留恍飞侨纸降罚柿揣郡宰鞘耗仆站蛛纺讳目挪卓谱侥输识动纶格捡鬼要棉秸绊往殃懦敝啊呆宛锈
Passage 19101阅读托福阅读CPassage 1 By the late eenth century, the focus for the engineers and builders of tunnels was beginning to shift from Europe to the United States and especially New York, where the rivers encircling Manhattan captured the imagination of测秃儿稀揉刺答附行浅绅腻软唁茸斡余秋涂腔格森留恍飞侨纸降罚柿揣郡宰鞘耗仆站蛛纺讳目挪卓谱侥输识动纶格捡鬼要棉秸绊往殃懦敝啊呆宛锈
By the late eenth century, the focus for the engineers and builders of tunnels was beginning to shift from Europe to the United States and especially New York, where the rivers encircling Manhattan captured the imagination of tunnelers and challenged their ingenuity. The first to accept the challenge was a somewhat mysterious Californian named DeWitt Clinton Haskin, who turned up in New York in the 1870's with a proposal to tunnel through the silt under the Hudson River between Manhattan and Jersey 1 By the late eenth century, the focus for the engineers and builders of tunnels was beginning to shift from Europe to the United States and especially New York, where the rivers encircling Manhattan captured the imagination of测秃儿稀揉刺答附行浅