101 學年度學測英文 第 16 題

Kizhi is an island on Lake Onega in Karelia, Russia, with a beautiful collection of wooden churches and houses. It is one of the most popular tourist 16 in Russia and a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site.

The island is about 7 km long and 0.5 km wide. It is surrounded by about 5,000 other islands, some of 17 are just rocks sticking out of the ground.

The entire island of Kizhi is, 18, an outdoor museum of wooden architecture created in 1966. It contains many historically significant and beautiful wooden structures, 19 windmills, boathouses, chapels, fish houses, and homes. The jewel of the architecture is the 22-domed Transfiguration Church, built in the early 1700s. It is about 37 m tall, 20 it one of the tallest log structures in the world. The church was built with pine trees brought from the mainland, which was quite common for the 18th century.