剑桥雅思4真题听力 第3期:Test1 (section2-1)
日期:2014-02-28 21:01

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Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Riverside Industrial Village.
To start your visit I'm just going to give you a brief account of the history of the museum before letting you roam about on your own.
I won't keep you long. OK?
Now, from where we're standing you've got a good view of the river over there.
And it was because of this fast-flowing water that this site was a natural place for manufacturing works.
The water and the availability of raw materials in the area, like minerals and iron ore,
and also the abundance of local fuels, like coal and firewood,
all made this site suitable for industry from a very early time.
Water was the main source of power for the early industries
and some of the water wheels were first established in the twelfth century, would you believe?
At that time, local craftsmen first built an iron forge
just behind the village here, on the bend in the river.
By the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the region's rivers supported more than a hundred and sixty water mills
and many of these continued to operate well into the nineteenth century.
But then the steam engine was invented and then the railways came
and the centres of industry were able to move away from the rivers and the countryside and into the towns.
So, industrial villages like this one became very rare.
So that's the history for you.
If you'd like any more information, you can ask me some questions,
or you can read further in our excellent guide book.

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重点单词
  • operatev. 操作,运转,经营,动手术
  • bendv. 弯曲,使弯曲,屈服,屈从 n. 弯曲,弯曲物
  • oren. 矿,矿石
  • establishedadj. 已被确认的,确定的,建立的,制定的 动词est
  • abundancen. 丰富,充裕
  • sourcen. 发源地,来源,原始资料
  • availabilityn. 有效,有用,有益;可得到的人(或物)
  • rareadj. 稀罕的,稀薄的,罕见的,珍贵的 adj. 煎得
  • suitableadj. 合适的,适宜的 adv. 合适地,恰当地