28-Unit5 Part4.mp3: Part IV More about the topic: Grand Central Terminal As you approach 42nd Street and Part Avenue form downtown New York, you’ll befacing a triumphant façade featuring a fifty-foot pediment with statues ofHercules, Minerva and Mercury surrounding a thirteen-foot clock. This is theGrand Central Station. It is said that Grand Central is an internationalexample of a successful urban project that gave new life to an historicbuilding which otherwise would have been discarded and destroyed. The following short passage is about grand centralterminal in New York.Supply the missing words while listening. Grand CentralTerminal is one of the most 1) famous buildings in New York. But most peoplecall it Grand Central 2) Station . The word “station”means a 3) stopping place along a transportation4) line . A “terminal”describes either5) end of the line. Grand Central Terminalis a huge 6) train station where train lines 7) begin and end. American railroad8) developer CorneliusVanderbilt was responsible for building the first Grand Central Terminal in 9) 1871. Thirtyyears later, 10) steam trains were being replaced by 11) electric ones. So officials decided to 12) destroy theexisting station and 13) create a new electric train terminal. Their plan called for 14) hiding therail tracks under four city 15) blocks andpermitting developers to place 16) buildings overthe track area.