大学英语四级考试听力预测试题(15)_大学英语听力

　　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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