If it goes on to ______ its responsibilities, then the British government must act immediately in its place.
Reasons for the British coal mining is called a “sick” industry today.
What did the British Disease refer to?
According to the writer, the linguistic insularity of British businesses ______.
The British Monarchy is ()
The two large islands that make up the British Isles are().
Someone over 18 years old is()under British law.
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____.
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.
The following are the reasons why British coal mining is today called a"sick"industry except()