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
a fine day for young ducks
abs-
alcohol tolerance
alcohol(o)metry
amovability
and so forth
Angelica longicaudata
artistic binder
atomic mes
bag hos
base of stack register
bohler
Bridlicna
broadcast model
Central Authorities
circumferential ventilation
combination modes
condensate recovery
corrugated galvanized iron sheet roofing
daylight trading
depth of a flag
development machine
double Spanish burton
ear drops
empirical methods
employee house organ
enables
engrossest
epididymitides
error protection procedure
exegetes
extraoral orthopedic force
fasciolopsiasis
fecal fistula
fishing gut
Flanders storm
freiberger
genus Atherinopsis
germacrane
ghezzi
Glycofurol
gray mullets
i-vele
illaudation
instrumental conditionings
itex
lag oil zone
lubberlike
madecassoside
make a false start
melt in your mouth
multidimensional approach
national historical park
nitti
no soup
non-disableds
norm-coerciveness theorem
nuoc mams
online help
Pan-Iranist
PASCAL data type PASCAL
pentise
periklis
petit-maitre
picture raster
piton hammer
Pogranichnyy Rayon
Pontocypris
pull a Homer
pump stroke counter
Qualification period
rambure
rave reviews
re-activation
run pipe
Saint-Irenee
sawblade cover
schusterman
scousers
seaworthy condition
simple speed control action
Sphaerograpta
stemliker
stratum pigmenti corporis ciliaris
sugar of leaching
support assembly equipment for live working
switch knives
tempete
Thalictrum myriophyllum
the primate of all england
thermomultipliers
thinning for tending
transitional slide
Transnistrian
trash TV
trot sth out
unfreezing port
unplotted
valvotomy knife
Virus scan
westboroughs
witwatersrands