Lesson 71 A famous clock 一个著名的大钟 First listen and then answer the question. 听录音,然后回答以下问题。 Has Big Ben ever gone wrong? When you visit London, one of the first t

发表于:2018-11-28 / 阅读(265) / 评论(0) 分类 新概念英语第二册

pace -步,步速,节奏 package -包裹,包装 pad -垫,衬垫 palm-手掌,掌状物 panel -板,控制板,仪表盘 panic -恐慌,慌乱 pants -长裤,便裤 parade-游行,检阅 paragraph -段落 parallel -可比拟的事物,相似处 parcel -小包,包裹 parliament-议会,国会 partial -部份的,不完

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A lock-down at the parliament building in the Canadian capital has been now lifted. Members of parliament in Ottawa have been much of the day, thereafter a government shot and killed a soldier guarding nearby a war memorial. Then, the xxx into govern

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Unit 144: Exercise before you eat 第144单元:饭前运动 Researchers found that overweight school children ate less if they had a 10-minute recess right before lunch. 研究人员发现,过重的学童如果在午餐前玩耍十分钟的话会吃得

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Narrator: Part Four. Listening Exercise 4.1. Listen to the following sentences, pausing your machine aftereach sentence to write down the essential details of what you have heard: a. London is the capital city of Great Britain. b. The Romans establis

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British Prime Minister Theresa May says Britain will leave the European Unions single market. May spoke to government employees and diplomats at Lancaster House in London on Tuesday. She had been under pressure to provide a plan following Britains vo

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Hello and Welcome to News and Reports on China Radio International. In This Edition The 16th Asian Games opens in central Guangzhou in a blaze of pyrotechnics as China staged the biggest sporting gala since the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Leaders of the G

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From NPR News in Washington, I'm Jenney Hurbst. Texas will be allowed to use a strict new voter ID law for the upcoming xx-term elections, the sxx calls decison today comes two days before the start of ealry voting in Texas, Karl D., the professor of

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CHAPTER 12 第12期 TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION 无代表权税收 107. George III and George Grenville. 107.乔治三世与乔治o格伦维尔 George III became king in 1760. 乔治三世于1760年登基, He was a narrow, stupid, well-meanin

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AS IT IS 2014-11-21 Myanmar: No Constitutional Change Before 2015 Election 缅甸在2015年大选过后才会修改宪法 The speaker of parliament in Myanmar says the countrys constitution cannot be changed before elections a year from now. Shwe Man

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挪威国王接受斯托尔滕贝格政府辞职 OSLO, Oct. 14 (Xinhua) -- Norwegian King Harald V accepted on Monday the resignation of the government led by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg. The coalition government of Stoltenberg's Labor Party and

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British Parliament Rejects Prime Minister's Brexit Plan The British parliament has rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for Britain to leave the European Union. 英国议会否决了首相特蕾莎梅提出的英国脱欧协议。 The House of

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今天我们要学的词是second chance。 A second chance第二次机会。The surgery gave him a second chance at life, 手术给了他再生的机会。Do you believe that everyone deserves a second chance? 你认为每个人都应该有改过自新

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Today is the first Thursday in May, which is often an election day in Britain. People in many parts of England are voting today in local council elections. In Scotland there are elections to the Scottish Parliament, and in Wales there are elections t

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Last Sunday, in the early hours of the morning, a whole hour disappeared. It was the beginning of summer time. Every year, at the end of March, we change the time on our clocks and watches. We move the time forward by one hour, so that, for example,

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Voice 1 Hello, Im Marina Santee. Voice 2 And Im Rachel Hobson. Welcome to Spotlight. This programme uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live. Voice 1 London. The year

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After days of political horse-trading the UK finally has a new government and a new Prime Minister, following the resignation of Labour's Gordon Brown on Tuesday evening. Since last Thursday's general election resulted in a hung parliament, a situati

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Charlemagne 查理曼大帝专栏 No to EUsterity 欧盟无需紧缩 The European Parliament threatens to veto a hard-won budget 欧洲议会扬言将对来之不易的财政预算投上反对票 The bitterest family rows are often over money. So it

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I said that I would tell you about Guy Fawkes and why 5 November is the traditional day for fireworks in England. The year was 1605. Two years earlier, the old Queen, Elizabeth I, had died. She had ruled England for 45 years. She died unmarried and w

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I have some political stuff for you in todays podcast. In Britain, we have a Parliament. Parliament makes new laws and oversees the government of the country. There are two chambers, or Houses of Parliament the House of Commons and the House of Lords

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