时间:2018-12-04 作者:英语课 分类:202 Useful Exercises for IELTS


英语课

  Narrator: Part Five. Listening Exercise 5.1. Listen to the following talk about two famous universities inEngland. Complete the table with the essential details of what you hear:

The universities of Oxford 1 and Cambridge are justifiably 2 world famous. Situated 3 83 miles from each other, and56 and 55 miles from London respectively, both universities are at the heart of the architecturally beautiful citiesthey dominate. Oxford University, founded in the late 11th century, is only a one a half hour train journey fromLondon (the River Thames is close by), and has 36 colleges, 13,000 undergraduates and a number of importantlibraries and museums. The Ashmolean Museum is the oldest public museum in the country. Steeped in history,the city of Oxford, with a population of over 120,000, is flooded with thousands of tourists throughout the year,who come to see such famous colleges as University College and Queen's College; the former being known forsuch famous alumni as the poet Shelley and President Bill Clinton. Regrettably, women have only been granteddegrees from Oxford since 1920. At Cambridge University, on the other hand, only 3 colleges accepted womenuntil the mid 4 1970s; some holding out until the late 1980s. Then again, Cambridge has 7 colleges founded bywomen. Cambridge University was founded later than Oxford, in the 13th century, but can boast one of the mostspectacular buildings in Europe - King's College, also famous for its Boy's Choir 5. Other important colleges atCambridge include Trinity College (Isaac Newton and Prince Charles were among those who attended) and JesusCollege. The city of Cambridge, situated on the River Cam, has a population of just 100,000 and is a much morequiet and peaceful place than Oxford, drawing fewer tourists. The rivalry 6 between the two universities culminatesin an annual boat race, which, because of the crowds, is nowadays held in London.



1 Oxford
n.牛津(英国城市)
  • At present he has become a Professor of Chemistry at Oxford.他现在已是牛津大学的化学教授了。
  • This is where the road to Oxford joins the road to London.这是去牛津的路与去伦敦的路的汇合处。
2 justifiably
adv.无可非议地
  • There General Walters would come aboard to greet me, justifiably beaming with pride at his arrangement. 在那儿沃尔特斯将军会登上飞机来接我,理所当然为他们的安排感到洋洋得意。 来自辞典例句
  • The Chinese seemed justifiably proud of their economic achievements. 中国人似乎为他们的经济成就感到自豪,这是无可非议的。 来自互联网
3 situated
adj.坐落在...的,处于某种境地的
  • The village is situated at the margin of a forest.村子位于森林的边缘。
  • She is awkwardly situated.她的处境困难。
4 mid
adj.中央的,中间的
  • Our mid-term exam is pending.我们就要期中考试了。
  • He switched over to teaching in mid-career.他在而立之年转入教学工作。
5 choir
n.唱诗班,唱诗班的席位,合唱团,舞蹈团;v.合唱
  • The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
  • The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。
6 rivalry
n.竞争,竞赛,对抗
  • The quarrel originated in rivalry between the two families.这次争吵是两家不和引起的。
  • He had a lot of rivalry with his brothers and sisters.他和兄弟姐妹间经常较劲。
学英语单词
accompactment
acidiella lineata
airlift foot
airworthiness flight test
Alitagtag
all-ticket
annual ring
assisted suicides
automatic calculator
barydon
basic key
bituminous wood
Bogadjim
Bonython Ra.
Cassano Spinola
catching net
central island
cephalopodic
Closed Entry Contact
cost constant
croing
cross-checks
dation
design of mix proportion
diaveridine
dlambda
dressing plate
dynamic retinoscopy
dysboulic
edamame bean
ennated
ensilages
fair go
financial structures
foam breaking coil
free surface spinning
Frue vanner
gasoline container
gossup
graph of a fuzzy switching function
headphone concert
Hemicidaroida
hiate
horny cuticle
insight-fulness
Isospondylii
Itapetininga
keps
kneolen
lacunae pharyngis
leenes
lituiticone
low-frequency spectrum
man child
medial arteriole of retina
MEVA
mGTP
navigation mark
nonlinear dynamics of elastic bodies
nonrail
ossa cuneiforme primum
pale-brown
parallel economy
picardies
Piraube, L.
play-back
poetic licence
Protoisotricha
pseudocaedibacter
put sb in the cart
quinin arsenite
rayleigh width
resident non profit institutions
retarder tower
retention finger
retransmission identification signal
Rovieng
royal evil
secondary key switch set
secoverine
semi-mounted 9-row grain drill
snarliest
solitarian
solvatings
stabilized granular surface
strain screw
Studs Lonigan
sudestades
surface harmonic function
sweeping generalizations
tank filler cap
tau-component
tolboxane
two-handed control
two-level storage
variable leak valve
wanying troches
water screen
wellsted
White R.
wind pass
working furnace