【正文】 the world in a new flag called the Union their credit the four countries do work together in some areas(eg, the currency and international relations), but they still have very different example, Northern Ireland, England and Scotland have different educational and legal systems as well as different football teams for petitions like the World Cup!England is the largest of the four countries, and for convenience it is divided roughly into three zone nearest France is called the South of England, the middle zone is called the Midlands and the one nearest to Scotland is known as the find most of the population settled in the south, but most of the industrial cities in the Midlands and the North of , nationwide, these cities are not as large as those in China, they have worldfamous football teams and some of them even have two!It is a pity that the industrial cities built in the nineteenth century do not attract historical architecture you have to go to older but smaller towns built by the you will find out more about British history and greatest historical treasure of all is London with its museums, art collections, theatres, parks and is the centre of national government and its has the oldest port built by the Romans in the first century AD, the oldest building begun by the AngloSaxons in the 1060s and the oldest castle constructed by later Norman rulers in has been four sets of invaders of first invaders, the Romans, left their towns and second, the AngloSaxons, left their language and their third, the Vikings, influenced the vocabulary and placenames of the North of England, and the fourth, the Normans, left castles and introduced new words for you look around the British countryside you will find evidence of all these must keep your eyes open if you are going to make your trip to the United Kingdom enjoyable and 、威爾士、蘇格蘭和北愛(ài)爾蘭這四個(gè)國(guó)家。然而，愛(ài)爾蘭的南部卻不情愿這樣并分離出去建立了自己的政府。要找歷史性的建筑你得去羅馬人建造的更古老的但是比較小的城鎮(zhèn)。 car, and the roads it travels on, will be revolutionized in the twentyfirst key to tomorrow39。t even bother to mention them in the newspapers half of these fatalities e from drunk drivers, and many others from smart car could eliminate most of these car can sense if a driver is drunk via electronic sensors that can pick up alcohol vapor in the air, and refuse to start up the car could also alert the police and provide its precise location if it is 。藏在保險(xiǎn)杠里的微型雷達(dá)能對(duì)周圍的汽車作掃描。 of the most frustrating things about driving a car are getting lost and getting stuck in the puter revolution is unlikely to cure these problems, it will have a positive in yourcar tuned to radio signals from orbiting satellites can locate your car precisely at any moment and warn of traffic already have twentyfour Navstar satellites orbiting the earth, making up what is called the Global Positioning make it possible to determine your location on the earth to within about a hundred any given time, there are several GPS satellites orbiting overhead at a distance of about 11,000 satellite contains four “atomic clocks,” which vibrate at a precise frequency, according to the laws of the quantum 。s car39。） the price of microchips dropping so drastically, future applications of GPS are virtually limitless.“The mercial industry is poised to explode,” says Randy Hoffman of Magellan Systems Corp., which manufactures navigational individuals could use GPS sensors in walking sticks, airplanes could land by remote control, hikers will be able to locate their position in the woods — the list of potential uses is 隨著微芯片價(jià)格的大幅度下降，未來(lái)對(duì)全球衛(wèi)星定位系統(tǒng)的應(yīng)用幾乎是無(wú)限的。車輛會(huì)編成10輛或12輛一組，車距僅6英尺，在計(jì)算機(jī)的控制下一齊行駛。每間教室都有一臺(tái)電腦，配有特別的屏幕，幾乎和電影屏幕一樣大。我們上課很快樂(lè)。我很喜歡她的態(tài)度，其他學(xué)生的行為表明他們也喜歡她。但現(xiàn)在，兩周之后，全班同學(xué)都很喜歡上她的課了。她也很嚴(yán)肅而且不大愛(ài)笑。我想這是因?yàn)樗娴南矚g語(yǔ)文數(shù)學(xué)——應(yīng)該是熱愛(ài)。我來(lái)自澳大利亞的悉尼，我18歲了。旅途的前幾百公里景色非常豐富多彩。一天晚上，大約是午夜，差不多有一個(gè)多小時(shí)我都在注視著夜晚的天空。后來(lái)，政府建了一條新的鐵路線，因此他們不再需要駱駝了。這樣使NSFET在1986年建成后取代ARPANET成為Internet的主干網(wǎng)。JM：你知道，我已經(jīng)看過(guò)中國(guó)的一些地方，游覽過(guò)一些美麗的城市，但這是我到過(guò)的最吸引人的地方之一。這到處都有很多游客?？?，我們剛經(jīng)過(guò)一個(gè)，我妻子剛經(jīng)過(guò)一個(gè)。JM：他們是這樣跟我說(shuō)的。t been able to be outdoors for so long that I39。 why has English changed over time? Actually all languages change and develop when cultures meet and municate with each first the English spoken in England between about AD 450 and 1150 was very different from the English we spoke was based more on German than the English we speak at gradually between about AD 800 and 1150, English became less like German because those who rules England spoke first Danish and later new settlers enriched the English language and especially its by the 160039。t sleep Strange things were happening in the countryside of northeast three days the water in the village wells rose and fell, rose and noticed that the well walls had deep cracks in smelly gas came out of the the farmyards, the chickens and even the pig were too nervous to ran out of the fields looking for places to jumped out of their bowls and about 3:00 am on July 28, 1976, some people saw bright lights in the sounds of planes could be heard outside the city of Tangshan even when no planes were in the the city, who thought little of these events, were asleep as usual that 3:42 am everything began to seemed as if the world was at an end!Eleven kilometers directly below the city the greatest earthquake of the 20th century had was felt in Beijing, which is more than two hundred kilometers of the nation felt huge crack that was eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide cut across houses, roads and burst from holes in the hills of rock became rivers of fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in suffering of the people was of them died or were injured during the of families were killed and many children were left without number of people who were killed or injured reached more than how could the survivors believe it was natural? Everywhere they looked nearly everything was of the city39。她和她的家人躲藏了兩年之后才被發(fā)現(xiàn)?！确秸f(shuō)，有天晚上天氣很暖和，我熬到 11點(diǎn)半故意不睡覺(jué)，為的是獨(dú)自好好看看月亮?？墒牵渌瑢W(xué)卻開(kāi)始在背后議論起來(lái)，他們說(shuō)我和這位男同學(xué)在談戀愛(ài)，這使我很生氣。曉東第二單元 世界上的英語(yǔ) Reading 通向 通向現(xiàn)代英語(yǔ)之路 16世紀(jì)末期大約有5百萬(wàn)到