Most British couples, whether religious or not, have a church wedding, which combines the religious rite with the legal contract. Wedding arrangement for inviting and entertaining guests at a wedding are usually the (1)____ (responsible) of the bride's family. In most cases it is mainly friends and (2) re____ of both families who are invited, but when the bride's father is a person with (3) pr____ social standing or a businessman of some kind, the wedding reception may provide a useful occasion for establishing social (4) co____ with those people whose goodwill may be of great advantage to him and his family. It is however, the bride's mother who has the job of sending out the formal printed (5)____ (invite) cards.
In the case of church wedding, the vicar of each parish in which the bride and bridegroom live is normally informed about a month in (6)____ of the ceremony so that an announcement of the coming wedding can be made in church on each of three Sundays before it takes place. Often up to a hundred or more people attend the religious service and the church and the bride usually wears the (7)____(tradition) long white dress and veil, while her (8) br____, who are often children, wear long dresses in attractive colours. The wedding ceremony resembles a Christian sevice during which the bride and bridegroom make promises to each other, according to which, whatever unforeseen difficulties they may encounter, they will remain (9) l____ to each other until they die. The wedding ceremony may also happen in the case of a civil wedding in a register office but is probably less usual and more purely (10) l____.
The American and British armies ______.
Good news was sometimes released prematurely, with the British recapture of the port _____ half a day before the defenders actually surrendered.
Practice 10
Every British citizen who is employed (or self-employed) is obliged to pay a weekly contribution to the national insurance and health schemes. An employer also makes a contribution for each of his employees, and the Government too pays a certain amount. This plan was brought into being in 1948. Its aim is to prevent anyone from going without medical services, if he needs them, however poor he may be; to ensure that a person who is out of work shall receive a weekly sum of money to subsist on; and to provide a small pension for those who have reached the age of retirement.
Everyone can register with a doctor of his choice and if he is ill he can consult the doctor without having to pay for the doctor's service, although he has to pay a small charge for medicines. The doctor may, if necessary, send a patient to a specialist, or to hospital~ in both cases treatment will be given without any fees being payable. Those who wish may become private patients, paying for their treatment, but they must still pay their contributions to the national insurance and health schemes.
Why were the French troops in Canada defeated by the British during theSeven Years.War?()
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Why were the French troops in Canada defeated by the British during the Seven Years.War?()
The British are the most voracious newspaper readers in the world. They read newspapers at breakfast; they walk to the bus reading a newspaper; they read a newspaper on the bus, as they go to work;and on the way back home, after work, they are engrossed in an evening newspaper. There are many “morning papers”, both national and provincial. The most famous is The Times. Contrary to what many foreigners believe, this is not a government newspaper. The various newspapers usually have their own views on politics, but they are not organs of the political parties, with the exception of the Communist Morning Star.
The largest lake in the British Isles is().