parliament n.议会；burn down (动词短语)烧塌；erect vt.竖立起来；take one’s name from从。。。而得名；be responsible for 对。。。负责；of immense size 尺寸巨大；accurate adj.精确的；official n. & adj.官员，官方的；Greenwich Observatory 格林威治天文台；check vt.检查；microphone n.麦克风；go wrong (动词短语)出差错；give correct time 报时准确；painter n.油漆工；a pot of paint 一桶油漆；slow sth. down (动词短语)将。。。放慢

　　Part II：语法学习

　　定语从句、被动语态、虚拟语气、各种时态的综合运用

　　Part III：综合训练

　　(1) you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock (2) can be heard all over the world on the BBC. (3) the Houses of Parliament (4) not been burned down in 1834, the great clock (5) never have been erected. Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall (6) was responsible for the making of the clock (7) the new House of Parliament was being built. It is not only (8) immense size (9) is extremely accurate (10) (11). Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock (12 check) twice a day. On the BBC, you can hear the clock (13) it is actually striking (14) microphones are connected to the clock tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, (15), it failed to give the correct time. A painter (16) had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands (17) slowed it down.

　　答案：

　　(1) When; (2) which//that; (3) If; (4) had; (5) would; (6) who; (7) when//while; (8) of; (9) but; (10) as; (11) well; (12) checked; (13) when; (14) because//as//since; (15) however; (16) who; (17) and

　　Part IV：句子翻译

　　1. 当你游览伦敦的时候，你将看到的东西之一就是大本钟，那台在BBC上可以让世界各地都听到的著名大钟。

　　2. 如果议会大厦不是在1834年被烧毁的话，这台大钟也就不会被建造起来了。

　　3. 大本钟得名于新议会大厦建造时负责制造这台钟的Benjamin Hall爵士。它不但尺寸巨大，而且还极其精确。来自格林威治天文台的官员们一天检查两次大钟。

　　4. 在BBC上，你可以在它真的报时的时候听到它，因为有多个麦克风被连接在钟楼上。

　　5. 大本钟历来极少出差错，然而有一次它却报错时间了。一位在钟楼上工作的油漆工在其中的一个指针上挂了一罐油漆，从而让它走慢了。

　　答案：

　　1. When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the BBC.

　　2. If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected.

　　3. Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock when the new House of Parliament was being built. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well. Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.

　　4. On the BBC, you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the clock tower.

　　5. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to give the correct time. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down.

Part V：听力与口语训练

　　短对话1：

　　Woman: Did you meet our new teacher yesterday?

　　Man: I’ve been sick for two days.

　　短对话2：

　　Woman: Do you think you could help me move this bookshelf?

　　Man: Sorry, I’ve got my hands full as it is.

　　短对话3：

　　Man: Did you attend the party last night? You must have met Mary’s uncle Charles.

　　Woman: Sure. Last night at the party, we finally met Mary’s uncle Charles.

　　短对话4：

　　Woman: I’d like to exchange the green gloves that I bought yesterday for the red ones.

　　Man: Let’s see now. The red one is $16, but the green one is $14.

　　短对话5：

　　Man: Are you ready? Let’s go together with Tom. He is going to drive us there.

　　Woman: Ann would like us to pick her up at the bus station.

　　短对话6：

　　Man: It’s three years since I saw her. I can’t wait to see her.

　　Woman: If I were you, I’d not be so excited.

　　短对话7：

　　Woman: Hello, I want to open an account. Shall I fill in this form?

　　Man: Yes, you’ll fill in a form, but not this one. Go over to that desk and the man there will help you.

　　短对话8：

　　Woman: I’m learning a lot in my economics class. Have you ever taken any courses in that department?

　　Man: Only the one last year, none since then.

　　单词与短语：

　　open an account 开一个银行帐户；economics n.经济学；department n.大学里的系，部门

　　Part VI：快速阅读

　　The Origin(来历) of Newspapers

　　The first newspapers were written by hand and put up on walls in public places. The earliest daily newspaper(日报)was started in Rome in 59 B.C. In the 700s, the world’s first printed(印刷的)newspaper was published(出版). Europe didn’t have a regularly(定期地)published newspaper until 1609, when one was started in Germany.

　　The first regularly published newspaper in the English language was printed in Amsterdam(荷兰首都：阿姆斯特丹)in 1620. In 1621, an English newspaper was started in London and was published once a week. The first daily English newspaper was the Daily Courant(每日新闻). It came out in March 1720.

　　In 1690, Benjamin Harris printed the first American newspaper in Boston. But not long after it was first published, the government stopped the paper. In 1704, John Campbell started the Boston Newsletter(波士顿新闻通讯), the first newspaper published daily in America. By 1760, the country had more than thirty daily newspapers. There are now about 1,800 daily papers in the United States.

　　Today, as a group, English language newspapers have the largest circulation(发行量) in the world, but the largest circulation for a newspaper is that of the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun(朝日新闻). It sells more than eleven million copies every day.