练习材料：

When you visit London, one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C. If the Houses of Parliament had hot been burned down in 1834, the great clock would never have been erected. Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock when the new Houses of Parliament were being built. It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well. Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day. On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the clock tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it failed to give the correct time. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down !

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任务配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：

1.词汇：

*parliament n.议会，国会

*erect v.建起

*accurate adj.准确的

*official n.官员，行政人员

*Greenwich n.格林尼治

*observatory n.天文台

*check v.检查

*microphone n.扩音器

*tower n.塔

练习感悟：

关于新概念的视频里，讲了很多语法点。但我对这些语法点总是一知半解。比如定语从句、同位语从句、时态、固定搭配。这些都是我之前学过但没能很好掌握的东西。所以，其实慢慢练的过程中，我也渐渐发现原来自己还在原地踏步。之前没懂的地方，现在仍然没懂。