71 A Famous Clock

名称：71 A Famous Clock
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新概念英语第二册（英音）
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[00:13.61]Has Big Ben ever gone wrong?
[00:19.17]When you visit London,
[00:21.33]one of the first things you will see is Big Ben,
[00:25.77]the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C.
[00:32.17]If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834,
[00:37.88]the great clock would never have been erected.
[00:42.17]Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock
[00:51.01]when the new Houses of Parliament were being built.
[00:55.45]It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well.
[01:03.19]Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.
[01:09.81]On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the clock tower.
[01:20.76]Big Ben has rarely gone wrong.
[01:23.85]Once, however, it failed to give the correct time.
[01:28.45]A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!