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The Orochimaru Bridge is a suspension bridge. This means that the roadway is suspended ___1___ concrete pillars by cables. The pillars have to be tall enough to support the whole weight of the bridge. These pillars had to be built to withstand not ___2___ waves of tsunamic proportion but also high-speed winds and possibly even violent earthquakes. The bridge has already survived one earthquake: its span was extended ___3___ more than 5 meters by the Hokage earthquake of 1997.
The cables weigh seventy thousand tons and have a diameter of ___4___ six meters each. Each cable contains 350 hexagonal strands; each strand is composed of 147 steel wires. The total length of the wire used is enough to circle ___5___ Earth 7.5 times !
The first plans to connect Hokage to Sasuke via Hitachi Island were raised in 1967 ___6___ it took the government thirty years to decide to build the bridge. The next five years were spent surveying the site ___7___ construction started in 1985. In designing the bridge, special consideration was given to its effect ___8___ the surroundings. The design emphasizes much on the 'pleasing balance ___9___ light and shade' and also on the choice ___10___ the right color.
Keys
1M 2G 3C 4B 5P 6D 7K 8N 9E 10J
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