It’s hard to make talks successful between the British and Irish governments without the participation of()and()
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of British government?()
It was three British sportsmen who()banned drugs.
The British Empire was replaced by the British Commonwealth or the Commonwealth of Nations in()
Britain’s car industry may be showing down but British engineers can still build the world’s fastest car. (1)____(construct) work begins today on a car that engineers hope will break the land speed record (2)____ more than 200 mph.
The car, Bloodhound, is designed to travel faster than 1,000 mph(1,600km/h)—far in (3) ex____ of the speed of sound and the equivalent of crossing four football pitches every second. The record of 763 mph was (4) s____ in 1997 by the Royal Air Force pilot Andy Green, who will also drive Bloodhound.
The time trial is (5) sch____ for 2011 and will take place in desert in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
The car’s pencil-shape shell is made from (6)____(forge) aerospace-grade aluminum.
Three engines lie under the bonnet: a 400 kg Euro-fighter Typhoon jet engine, a rocket and a third engine to pump fuel through to the rocket. This combination should produce 135,000 horsepower—(7) eq____ to the power of 180 Formula One cars.
Wing Commander Green, 46, will lie feet—first in Bloodhound. As the car (8)____ (acceleration) to 1,050 mph in 40 seconds he will experience a force of 2.5 G, or about twice his body weight, As he decelerates and experiences forces of up to 3G, the blood will drain from his head to his feet and he could black out. He will prepare (9)____ the trial by flying upside down in a stunt aircraft. “A huge advantage is (10)____ I’ve got 20 years’ experience of flying fast jets,” he said.
Does Mr. Bacon think the British spend more money on their animals than their children?
It can be learned from the passage that the British author Salman Rushdie ______.
Practice 9
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.
Bold headlines and a variety of photographs are features of the British press. Some newspapers, such as the sober Daily Telegraph and The Times (which belong to the “quality press'') use photographs sparingly. The more “popular” newspapers, using the small or “tabloid” format, such as the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and The Sun, use pictures extensively and also run strip-cartoons and humorous drawings, some of which present striking pictorial comment on politics.
Practice 2
The British caricature themselves as a nation of insular xenophobes. This helps to disguise the fact that they are living in one of the world’s most international countries. Saloon bar patriots may be happy to read tabloid newspapers which take every opportunity to hurl abuse at continental neighbour. But the bar itself is likely to employ Australian staff, who serve Thai food and Mexican beer to people who work for Korean companies, wear Italian clothes and—though they still can’t manage a complete sentence in French—are beginning to talk like Americans. The bar is also likely to be foreign-owned: a Japanese bank, Nomura, recently became the largest pub landlord in Britain.
Though ethnic minorities make up less than 10% of the resident population, Britain is one of the easiest countries to enter, despite its insistence (often quoted as evidence of insularity) on maintaining border controls within the EU. All 300 million citizens of the European Economic Area can live and work in Britain if they choose without having to fill in so much as a form. At least 18 million of them will stop by Britain each year.