bbc 听力100篇（Day11原版听力马拉松100Days）

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bbc 听力100篇（Day11原版听力马拉松100Days）iconicofficial count and collection of information about a populationbold ambitionbig or difficult aim requiring lots of effortcensus

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Words and phrases and definitions:

vowed

promised (to do something)

partisan

supporting the political views of just one party

bold ambition

big or difficult aim requiring lots of effort

census

official count and collection of information about a population

iconic

famous person or object which is thought to represent an idea or style from a particular time

Exercise:

Use one of the words or phrases from Lingohack to complete each of these sentences. Note that you may have to change the form of a word or phrase to complete the sentence correctly.

vowed / partisan / bold ambition / census / iconic

1. The latest _______ shows that there are more people living in London than ever before.

2. Staff at the factory weren't convinced by the manager's _______ to improve working conditions and improve wages.

3. One of the world's most _______ railway locomotives the Flying Scotsman has taken its first public test run after ten years of repairs and rebuilding work.

4. Some people thought John's _______ to row across the Pacific Ocean in one month as completely mad.

5. The prime minister thought ________ differences got in the way of real progress.

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Transcript:

President Obama has set out the vision he hopes will define his legacy in his final State of the Union address. He vowedto continue targeting terrorist networks accelerate the switch from fossil fuels and also launch a new drive to cure cancer. He called for Congress to be lesspartisanin order to make real progress.

The elephant population in Africa is continuing to decline despite an international ban on the trade of ivory tusks. Counting the remaining animals is certainly a difficult task – they roam through vast areas across 20 countries but that is the bold ambitionof the great elephantcensus. It's a continent-wide initiative started by the co-founder of Microsoft Paul Allen to keep an account of Africa's elephants and to do it from the sky.

Thousands of Elvis Presley fans descended on a town in Australia over the weekend for an annual outback festival dedicated to the iconicUS singer. The celebrations in Parkes coincided with what would have been Elvis's 81st birthday. The festival was first held in 1993 and includes lookalike competitions an Elvis-themed gospel service and large street parades as well.

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