BEC listen and translation exerc

听力练习:

Both the Queen and the Governor General occupy roles which are largely ceremonial.女王和总督担任的角色大多是仪式性的。

Malaysia has recently been taking steps to promote Islamic banking and finance.

He is regarded as Britain's greatest living playwright.

The Chinese were not allowed to make legal appeals and they were not accepted as American citizens.

These provinces all have a great deal of power in relation to the federal government.

Some of them began to do the laundry for the white miners; others set up small restaurants.

Britain is quite an expensive place to live in. Therefore, you need to consider costs very carefully.

He told the European Parliament that the people of Europe are ahead of the continent's politicians in recognizing the need for change.

他告诉欧洲议会，在需要改革的意识上，欧洲人民领先于欧洲大陆的政客。

In that largely unoccupied land, they stated a claim for themselves by placing markers in the ground.

Though they are small in number, these words play no small part in linguistic performance and communication.

虽然这些词语数量少，但它们在语言运用和交流上发挥了很大的作用。

However, if anyone is interested in renting off campus, the university accommodation can offer advice, and even help you to find a suitable place.

Different people disagree with you for different reasons. Some of them may have already given the issue a thought and have already made a choice.

In the American system, the President and the Congress frequently battle over policy.

Many Chinese returned to their homeland, and their numbers declined sharply in the early part of this century.

The vocabulary can be divided into active vocabulary and passive vocabulary.

George, you have given us valuable advice on living in the UK. It's very beneficial to our listeners.

In the twentieth century, it should be observed that English has created many words out of Latin and Greek elements, especially in the field of science and technology.

In this lecture, we'll concentrate on one of these elements, the audience. This is a very important concept for writing.

本次演讲中，我们的重点是其中一个要素：读者。这是写作中非常重要的概念。

Now, we can see that audience awareness is so crucial to the success of your writing.

And one of the major expenses is tuition fees. University courses range from about 5,000 pounds to 8,000 pounds, depending on the type of course.

If you quote an author, there must be a Bibliography to make clear exactly where you found that author's words.如果你引用一个作者，那么必须要有一个参考书目以明确你具体是在什么地方找到这个作者的文字的。

Today I'd like to introduce our guest speaker George Allen from the British Council, who is going to talk to us about living in the UK.

The British model offered "strength, order and authority", which they thought was preferable to the weakness of the American system.

The Nobel prize in literature for 2005 is awarded to the English writer, Harold Pinter.

Many people who visit the UK often find the food rather boring and uninteresting.

A considerable number of Latin words were adopted into the English language.

The biggest difference between Canada and the UK is that Canada is a federation.

In 1965, in a general revision of our immigration laws, many more Chinese were permitted to settle here.

Now that the U.S. space shuttle Discovery is back on Earth, future shuttle missions are postponed until the space agency NASA solves the problem of launch debris endangering the orbiters.

由于美国“发现号”航天飞机又回到了地球，未来的航天飞机飞行任务被推迟，直到航空航天局（NASA）解决危及人造卫星的发射碎片问题。

The reading that you should have completed by Monday is Chapters one to six and the first half of Stephen's novel.

French adoptions were found in almost every section of the vocabulary. For example, in the section of law, there are such words as justice, evidence, pardon.

What is vocabulary? It usually refers to a complete inventory of the words in a language.

The American system was characterized by "checks and balances" on political power.

You should use quotations from at least two authors who give contrasting opinions about this time period.

Seeing that this is a rather informal response paper, the length requirement is only one to two pages.

He is widely acknowledged to have influenced an entire generation of British writers.

The same action, under different circumstances, can cause one to be viewed either as a hero or as a villain.

If someone is late, he or she may feel uneasy and should say sorry to others.

In the years after World War Two, so much stress has been placed on the psychological needs of children that the number of experts in this field has increased enormously.

在二战后的几年里，人们非常关注儿童的精神需求，因此该领域的专家数量大幅上升。

As American attitudes toward minorities and toward ethnic differences have changed in recent years, the long-hated Chinese have gained wide acceptance.