| Britain’s leading state-run English
language center * Held from June to August * Classes at all levels * Excellent teachers * Preparation for public exams * Accommodation(食宿) in selected families * Pleasant seaside town * Very full social programme * English through activity e. g. art, photography etc. * Special English e.g. medical, business etc. * Advice service for university and college students * Teachers’ course |
| Britain’s leading state-run English
language center * Held from June to August * Classes at all levels * Excellent teachers * Preparation for public exams * Accommodation(食宿) in selected families * Pleasant seaside town * Very full social programme * English through activity e. g. art, photography etc. * Special English e.g. medical, business etc. * Advice service for university and college students * Teachers’ course |
| Britain’s east midlands were once the
picture of English countryside, alive With flocks, shepherds, skylarks and
buttercups--the stuff of fairytales. In 1941 George Marsh left school at the age
of 14 to work as a herdsman in Nottinghamshire, the East Midlands countryside
his parents and grandparents farmed. He recalls skylarks nesting in cereal
fields, which when accidentally disturbed would fly singing into the sky. But in
his lifetime, Marsh has seen the color and diversity of his native land fade.
Farmers used to grow about a ton of wheat per acre; now they grow four tons.
Pesticides have killed off the insects upon which skylarks fed, and year-round
harvesting has driven the birds from their winter nests. Skylarks are now rare.
"Farmers kill anything that affects production, "says Marsh. "Agriculture is to A. cherishes his adolescence memories. B. thinks highly of the efficiency of agriculture. C. may not have happy memories of past time. D. cannot remember his adolescence days. [单项选择]
{{B}}Passage One{{/B}} A. 1920s B. 1930s C. 1940s D. 1950s [填空题]{{B}}Britain’s System of Education{{/B}}
The British Commonwealth includes a quarter of the world’s population in one-sixth of the world’s land area. All its (1) ______ member states have been formerly parts of the British Empire. In these countries English is either the first language or the most (2) ______ means of communication except for small-scale business. Today the Commonwealth is a (3) ______ association of independent (4) ______ states. Hong Kong cannot become independent because its main land section is part of China, but had been by Britain on a 99 year lease which (5) ______ in 1997. The transformation of the British Empire into a Commonwealth of independent nations began in 1867, when Canada became fully self-governed. The new Commonwealth took shape in 1947, when India and Pakistan became fully independent. Within 20 years, all the major British territories, in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean had been independent, with the help and agreement of the British government.
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