The Brooklyn Bridge

The Brooklyn Bridge is a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension bridge in New York City

and is one of the oldest bridges of either type in the United States. It (was completed) in
1883. The boroughs of Man h attan (are connected) by the bridge.
It has a main span of 1,595.5 feet (486.3 m), and it (constructs) as the first steel-
wire suspension bridge. It originally (refers) to as the New York and Brooklyn Bridge and as
the East River Bridge, but then it (call) the Brooklyn Bridge, a name coming from an earlier
January 25, 1867, letter to the editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and formally so named by
the city government in 1915. It becomes an icon of New York City. Although, the Brooklyn
Bridge is technically a suspension bridge, a hybrid cable-stayed/suspension (use) as the
bridge design. The towers (build) of limestone, granite, and Rosendale cement. The granite
blocks (quarry) and (shape) on Vinalhaven Island, Maine, under a contract with the Bodwell
Granite Company, and (deliver) from Maine to New York by schooner.
The two towers (design) to be high and bulk enough to serve fundamental purposes.
The enormous weight of the roadway and cables (support) by them. The deck and the towers
are high enough so that the traffic on the river (interfere). Suspension bridges can easily cross
distances between 2,000 and 7,000 feet (610 and 2,134 meters), enabling them to span
distances beyond the scope of other bridge designs. The suspension cables, on the other hand,
receive the bridge's tension forces. These cables run horizontally between the two far-flung
anchorages. The end of the suspension cables (secure) by anchorages, which are solid
cubical structures of stone masonry. They are 42.8 by 47.5 meters at the base and rising 32.4
meters above high-water mark. To resist the great tension from the suspension cables, their
weight has to be at least 60,000 tons each. These massive stone masonry structures (situate)
334.8 meters back from the towers on each side.
Answer these following questions based on the text above
1. What type of bridge is Brooklyn Bridge?
2. What year was the Brooklyn Bridge completed?
3. What materials are used to build the towers?
4. Why are the tower designed to be high enough?
5. Why should the weight of the anchorage be at least 60,000 tons each?
Complete the diagram based on the passage above

Match the parts of the bridge with the diagram and write down its function!
1. The two towers
2. The deck
3. Anchorage
4. Suspension cable
5. Main cable
6. Foundation