2014高考英语突破完形填空训练（12）及答案
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Central Park covers more than three hundred and forty hectares.It was the first public park built in the United States.
In 1858，a design competition was held to find the best idea for planning the huge area in the center of New York City.The winners were two landscape designers，American Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux from Britain.
It was not easy to create this park.It may look like a natural environment of lakes and woodlands，but it was entirely built by human labor.
Workers moved millions of cubic meters of stone and earth to clear the area.They brought in more than fourteen thousand cubic meters of fertile soil from New Jersey to make it possible to grow trees and other plants.
It took fifteen years to complete the project.Central Park was a huge success and helped create a movement across the United States for creating public gardens.
Today，the park is managed by the Central Park Conservancy under an agreement with New York City.The Conservancy raises about eightyfive percent of the park’s twentyseven million dollars yearly budget.
Here are a few facts that help show just how big and busy Central Park is.It contains seven kilometers of paths for horseback riding and about 93 kilometers of walking paths.When you get tired from all that walking，there are more than 9,000 benches where you can sit down.
