Answer for “Airports on water” with explanations
| Answers | Keywords | Location | Explanation |
| 1 A | over 1000 hectares | P1, L 9
P2 L1 |
An island six kilometers long and with a total area of 1248 hectares is being created there.
The new island of Chek Lap Kok…. |
| 2 A | river delta | P1, L | The changes in China’s Pearl River delta, however, are more dramatic than these natural fluctuations. |
| 3 B | open sea | P5, L 2 | Kansai was supposed to be built just one kilometer offshore, where the seabed is quite solid. Fishermen protested, and the site was shifted a further five kilometers.
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| 4 C | reclaiming land | P 4, L 1 and last sentence | The usual way to reclaim land is to pile sand rock on to the seabed………..
Kansai took the first approach; Chek Lap Kok is taking the second.
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| 5 B | conventional methods | P 4, L 14 | You can engineer around these problems, or you can engineer them out. Kansai took the first….. |
| 6 runways and taxiways | P 9, l 14 | Most of the rock will become the foundations for the airport’s runways and its taxiways. | |
| 7 terminal building site | P 9 L 25 | Most of the terminal buildings will be placed above the site of the existing island. | |
| 8 sand | P9 L 18 | The sand dredged from the waters will also be used to provide a two-meter capping layer over the granite platform. | |
| 9 stiff clay | P 8, Last sentence | At the same time, sand was dredged from the waters and piled on top of the layer of stiff clay that the massive dredging had laid bare. | |
| 10 & 11 Lantau Islan | Sea Water (in either order) | partially protected | P last, L 6 | The brunt of a typhoon will be deflected by the neighboring island of Lantau; the sea walls should guard against the rest.
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| 10 & 11 Lantau Islan | Sea Water (in either order) | partially protected | P last, L 6 | The brunt of a typhoon will be deflected by the neighboring island of Lantau; the sea walls should guard against the rest.
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| 12 rainfall | settlement by | P last, L 10 | Gentler but more persistent bad weather – the downpours of the summer monsoon – is also being taken into account.
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| 13 geotextile | prevented, use | P last, L 14 | A mat-like material called geotextile is being laid across the island to separate the rock and sand layers. |