The earliest known inhabitants established settlement in Scotland in 6000BC. Scotland is 275 miles long and its broadest point only 152 miles wide. Edinburgh averages 140 days of rain a year, with an average of 1.89 and 2.72 inches in January and Jul

发表于:2018-12-04 / 阅读(70) / 评论(0) 分类 202 Useful Exercises for IELTS

Exercises 1.2 A: write down the numbers you hear in the following sentences. The earliest known inhabitants established settlement in Scotland in 6000BC. Scotland is 275 miles long and its broadest po

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Pope Benedict XVI has arrived in the United Kingdom. The 83-year-old Pontiff was greeted by the Queen in Edinburgh before celebrating Mass for 70,000 Scottish Catholics. He told the crowd that secularism in the UK threatened to damage society and tha

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[00:18.45]City Of The Dead [00:24.40]死亡城 [00:33.17]A few years ago when I was 18, [00:36.41]I was dating a girl from Edinburgh. [00:39.44]Now this place has quite a lot of history [00:42.33]so ghost tours are common but one stands out [00:45.92]as

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Who's Got A Plan For Brexit? This Hit Musical Does SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Many Britons worry that Britain's exit from the European Union will be bad for business. But Brexit has been great fodder for performing arts - a drama at the National Theatre, a s

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在雅思听力考试中,关于英国的场景很多,和小编一起来看看知名的英国地名吧! Great Britain 英国 British英国的,英国人 England英格兰 Englandman英格兰人 Scotland苏格兰 Scottish苏格兰的 Scotsman苏格兰

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Track one 70th Anniversary will be 2017 The World literally is focussed on Edinburgh There is a whole range of things many people come and they try to replicate what happens in Edinburgh no one really succeeds Because it is a combination of planning,

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本期难点 1. light the blue touch paper: Touch paper is the correct name of the impregnated material used in fireworks fuses. The original phrase (the instructions on fireworks) reads

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Unit 3. Travelling from place to place Part 1. warming up. A. Keywords. call, flight, passenger, depart, board. Vocabulary. depart. board. due. shuttle. check in. Albania. Frankfurt. Karachi. Edinburgh. Nairobi. Madrid. Hamburg. Muscat. Kuala Lumpur.

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Celebrating Strange Art at Washington's Fringe Festival Every summer artists perform at Fringe Festivals around the world. Fringe Festivals are a celebration of strange art. They have all kinds of performers -- from dancers, musicians and actors to e

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By Robert Raffaele Washington 30 August 2007 The city of New Orleans in the southeastern U.S. state of Louisiana on Wednesday marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina -- one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States

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BBC Learning English London Life The English-Speaking Union Awards Callum:Hello, I'm Callum Robertson and this is London Life. One of the most famous buildings in London is Buckingham Palace and perhaps London's most famous residents are the Royal F

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Summer in Edinburgh, Scotlands capital city, is the time for festivals. In August and September there are several different festivals which take place there. The original Edinburgh International Festival started in 1947, and offers visitors a rich pr

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The Queen was supposed to be part of a double act when she arrived to open new BBC headquarters, but with the Duke of Edinburgh in hospital, she performed her duties as a soloist. There was never any possibilty of cancelling. This is the day job for

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Matt: So, Rachel, where are you from? Rachel: I'm from Scotland. Matt: Okay, Okay. Scotland like, what's the biggest city in Scotland would you say? Rachel: The capitol city is Edinburgh but the biggest city, size-wise and population-wise is Glasgow.

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Ian: Hey, Ian, have you ever met anyone famous? Todd: Anyone famous? Ah, yes, I have. I met the Duke of Edinburgh. Ian: Mm, who's that? Todd: He is the Queen's husband and I met him at Buckingham Palace. Ian: How did that happen? Todd: Well, it was b

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今天我们要学的词是hospitalize。Hospitalize动词,意思是就医、把某人送进医院治疗。British Queen Elizabeth II's 96-year-old husband, Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, was hospitalized in London to receive treatment for an

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为了方便广大考生更好的复习,整理了雅思听力常考地名词汇,以供各位考生考试复习参考,希望对考生复习有所帮助。愿大家都能取得好成绩。 U.K./the United Kingdom/Great Britain 英国(大不列颠)

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