If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834
the great clock would never have been erecter.
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 build.
It is not only of immense size
but of 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 really 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!
4. What does the author think of Big Ben?
5. Why can you hear the clock on the B.B.C.?
6. What is Big Ben?
Passage Three
On the occasion of the old ladys eightieth birthday
she waited eagerly to see what kind of present her daughter
Myra,would send to he
Since her first daughter,Enid,had died two years before
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