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篇英语短文搞定高考
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个单词（八）
22.
Sightseeing in the United Kingdom
观光联合王国
After
the
wedding
,
my
cousin
and
his
wife
went
to
the
United
Kingdom
for
nationwide sightseeing
.
He f
ax
ed
a
letter
to
me
in
English
yesterday.
To
my
delight
,
he
no
longer
made
any
tense
error
.
And
his
description roughly
clarified
my
questions
about
the
UK--its
currency
,
its
administration
,
the
institution
which
divides
it
into
four
province
s, and the
historical
conflict
s and
quarrel
s when Southern
Ireland
broke away
from
the UK.
Unwilling
to
leave out
any
attraction,
my
cousin
arrange
d
his
enjoyable
journey
carefully.
One
attractive
place he visited was a castle in the
countryside
of Scotland,
which lies near a
port
.
It used to be the headquarters of the
Communism Union
but
broke down
during the war.
Finding
nothing
could
take
the
place
of
this
splendid
architecture
,
people
accomplish
ed
rebuilding
it
in1952. It was
to their
credit
that all
furnish
ed rooms are
consistent
with what they
used to be.
My
cousin
was
thrill
ed
by
its
collection
s
consisting
of
statue
s
plus
royal uniform
s
fold
ed
in
glass tanks. Though there was no
possibility
to buy some of
these exhibits, it was
convenient
to
take photos, which he
sent me along with his fax.
我的表弟和他妻子在举办了
婚礼
后到
联合王国
做
全国旅游观光
去了。他昨
天
传真
了一
封英文信给我，
让我
高兴
的是，
他再也不
犯
时态错误
了，
而且他的
描述
也
粗略地
向我
阐明
了
关于英国的一些问题
——
它的
货币
啦，
行政管理
啦，
把它
分成
四个
行政区
的
制度<
/p>
啦，
还有在
南爱尔兰
脱离
联合王国时发生的一些历史上的
冲突
< br>和
争拗
。
因为
不愿意漏掉
任何一个景点，我表弟仔细地
安排
了他
愉快的
旅程。他参观的其中一个
< br>吸引人的
地方是苏格兰
乡村
的一
个城堡。城堡靠近一座
港口
，曾经是
共
产主义联盟会
的总
部，但是在战争中
倒
塌
了。人们发现没有任何东西可以
取代
这座
辉煌的建筑
，于是在
1952
年
完成
了重建。
值
得赞扬
的是，所有
配备家具
的房间都和
它们过去
一致的
。由
雕像加折叠
在玻璃柜里的
皇家制服
组成的
收藏品
使我表弟
震撼
不已。<
/p>
尽管没有
可能
购买这些展览品，
拍
照却很
方便
，他在传
真中一起发给了我。
23
An
Air Crash
飞机失事
I
was
a
previous typist
in
a
post
office.
Because
I
couldn’t
tolerate
typing any
more
postage
bills
or
postcode
s
on
a
typewriter
every
day,
I
resigned. With
a
greedy
motivation
of
making
big
money,
I
took
up
working
as
a business
representative
for
the
G
.E
Ecology
Company, which produced
goods
by
recycling
useful
material
s from our
dustbin
s.
My
new
job
left
me
good
i
mpression
s
in
many
aspect
s
except
that
the
working
timetable
was
full of traveling by
jet
s.
Once,
when
speed
ing
up
,
our
jet
was
swallow
ed
by
a
thunderstorm,
which
destroyed
our
GPS
receive
r and
made
us
lose
sight
of
the
directions.
A
constantly
flash
ing
light
showed
that
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