口語進(jìn)階-敘事口語材料：淺游倫敦
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The City of London is one of the most famous cities in the world, in previous centuries, London was the center of the British Empire. Today, it is one of the most important cities of the emerging European Union. London is located in southeastern England, on the Thames River. The Greater London area contains about 12 million people, and the surrounding areas contained several million more.
倫敦市是世界上最著名的城市之一，在過去的幾個(gè)世紀(jì)里，倫敦是大英帝國的中心。今天，它是新興歐盟最重要的城市之一。倫敦位于英格蘭東南部，泰晤士河畔。大倫敦地區(qū)約有 1200 萬人口，周邊地區(qū)還有數(shù)百萬人口。
London was the first city in the modern world to have reached a population of 1 million people. London is a very old city, and many of its neighborhoods maintain their distinct character. One of the most famous parts of London is the East End, where people speak with an accent known as Cockney. One of the features of the Cockney accent is that the letter 'H' is often not pronounced.
倫敦是現(xiàn)代世界第一個(gè)人口達(dá)到 100 萬的城市。倫敦是一座非常古老的城市，它的許多街區(qū)都保留著自己獨(dú)特的特色。倫敦最著名的地區(qū)之一是東區(qū)，那里的人說著一種被稱為“倫敦土腔”的口音。倫敦土腔的一個(gè)特點(diǎn)是字母“H”經(jīng)常不發(fā)音。
London's population is very cosmopolitan; the city contains, in addition to people of English background, large communities of South Asian, Chinese, African, and Caribbean people. Most of these people have their origins in countries that belong to the British Commonwealth of Nations.
倫敦的人口非常國際化；除了英國背景的人之外，這座城市還擁有大量南亞、中國、非洲和加勒比海人。這些人中的大多數(shù)來自英聯(lián)邦國家。
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