Aberdeen is an administrative center of Grampian Region, Northeastern Scotland, on the Nor
According to the text, Aberdeen is ______.
A.a district
B.a city
C.an industrial base
D.a fishing resort
According to the text, Aberdeen is ______.
A.a district
B.a city
C.an industrial base
D.a fishing resort
When was Aberdeen burned?
A.1337.
B.1159.
C.1495.
D.1593.
Aberdeen is well-known for its ______.
A.chemicals
B.machinery
C.fishing ports
D.seaside rocks
Where can passengers change trains to go to Aberdeen?
A.Edinburgh.
B.Leith.
C.Dundeen.
D.Northeast.
Questions 23-26
According to the information given in the text, choose the correct answer from the choices given.
The unemployment rate in Aberdeen is
A.slightly lower than the average for Britain.
B.much lower than the average for Britain.
C.less than 10% of the average for Britain.
Dear Vicky,
I live in Aberdeen, in the north of Scotland. My family live in Cornwall, at the other end of the country. My parents are getting old now, and I really want to go and see them this Christmas. The problem is my boss. He only gives us 2 days' holiday at Christmas. It's 500 miles to go from Aberdeen to Cornwall and then 500 miles back again, and I'll be exhausted(筋疲力尽)when I get back. I want to ask for more time off, but I don't get on very well with my boss. A few months ago, he walked into the room and heard some of us saying rude things about him. Since then the atmosphere(气氛)has been very difficult.
Anxious in Aberdeen
Dear Anxious in Aberdeen,
It's obvious to me that you need to rebuild your relationship with your boss. You have hurt his feelings, and now that you need something from him. You have realized what you have done. There is only one thing to doit's time you apologized. I'm sure your boss will be relieved(宽慰的). If you explain why you need the time off, he will probably be more than happy to let you go. Good luck!
Vicky
21. The letter-writer wants to()at Christmas.
A. have a long holiday abroad
B. visit his parents who live quite far away
C. change his job
22. The letter-writer will travel()miles to go to and come back from Com wall.
A. 500
B. 1500
C. 1000
23. The letter-writer doesn't get on well with his boss because().
A. his boss is a very rude person
B. his boss heard the letter-writer and others say very bad things about him
C. the letter-writer doesn't like the atmosphere at work
24. Vicky advises the letter-writer to().
A. make his boss apologize to him
B. give some gifts to his boss
C. apologize to his boss for what he has done
25. Vicky thinks the letter-writer's boss will()after he hears the explanation.
A. be very happy to give the letter-writer a longer holiday
B. not be happy to let the letter-writer go
C. probably give the letter-writer a raise
When the Wells Dry Up
A "Everyone else in Britain hangs on what the Bank of England does with interest rates," says one proud Aberdonian. "Up here, we don' t care about that. We' re much more interested in what OPEC does to the oil price." An exaggeration maybe, but Aberdeen is the Houston of an offshore industry that has long made Britain a big oil and gas producer. The petropounds coursing through the "Granite City" on the north-east coast of Scotland have turned Aberdeen into one of the most prosperous cities in Britain. The typical worker makes £481 a week, compared with median earnings of £447 across Britain. The city' s unemployment rate is well under the national average. The oil industry employs 33,000 people directly in Aberdeen and is estimated to provide work for 400,000 in Britain.
B Aberdeen is booming now thanks to high oil prices, but the future looks less rosy. Offshore output peaked eight years ago, when Britain was the world' s sixth-biggest producer of oil and gas; by 2006 it had become the 12th-biggest. The International Energy Agency said on July 10th that the drop in production had been steeper than expected. "There'll be nothing here in 15 years' time," says one former offshore worker. "Oil' s been good to me, but I wouldn't want my son going into the business." The recent decision by Royal Dutch Shell to sell off several of its North Sea fields and to abandon the construction of a £25 million head-quarters in the city has added to local worries.
C Yet even though oil and gas output is declining, the local businesses that have sprung up to support it have bright prospects. The North Sea was one of the earliest offshore oil basins to be developed. Many of the technologies needed to produce oil from underwater wells—especially in the difficult, gale-prone waters off the British coast—were developed in Scotland. Around 90% of oil-industry workers are employed not by the big international companies such as BP or Total that operate the fields but by local businesses.
D For example, Wood Group is a big oil-services firm that specialises in, among other things, enhanced-recovery technology and offshore pipelines. Sub-Atlantic is a small outfit that makes remotely operated submarines. Altogether such businesses—covering everything from catering and construction to geology and engineering—have a turnover of around £11.7 billion a year. The hope is that they will be able to sell the expertise they have acquired in the North Sea to an industry searching for oil and seeking to maximise production in ever more testing submarine conditions around the world.
E One area of particular British expertise is in subsea technology, a catch-all term for things such as automated wellheads and long pipeline networks on the seabed. These allow oil companies to use cheap ships instead of expensive fixed platforms and enable them to operate several wells from one platform. many miles away. Remotely operated vehicles are used to install and maintain equipment where water is too deep for divers. In 2005 Britain' s subsea industry' s output was worth around £3.4 billion, half of which was exported, a 20% rise on the year before. There are big opportunities to keep growing fast. British firms account for half of global sales, and the industry is expanding rapidly. The world market for subsea services could be worth $40 billion by 2011, according to Scottish Enterprise, a development agency. David Pridden, the boss of Subsea UK, a trade agency, thinks exports from the British industry could reach $15 billion by 2020.
F Local businesses also have experience in squeezing more output out of existing fields, or cheaply developing smaller ones—something that should extend the life of Britain' s North Sea industry. As big finds become rarer, producers are focusing on how to extract oil from smaller reservoirs that can be geologically or technically tricky to operate. "As oth
听力原文:W: Well, did you get to find out about tile trains?
M: Yes, I've got the leaflets here. And you got the coaches ,did you?
W: Yes, look, I've just worked it out.
M: Well, that's OK. There are trains all day, according to this. Here, there's one leaving King Cross at 8:00 in the morning.
W: Oh, goodness no. That would mean getting up at 6: 00. Count me out for that one, when's the next?
M: 10 o'clock. Leaves Kings Cross at 10 o'clock, gets into Aberdeen at 17: 21. Not bad. Seven hours and a bit on the way. It's 530 miles, after all.
W: I suppose it's very expensive, isn't it?
M: No, what about going by plane?
W: You know how I feel about flying.
M: What about the coaches? But can you imagine being stuck in a bus for twelve hours? At least on the train you can get up and walk about a bit, you know, stretch your legs.
W: All right, then, you do better. Find me a nice cheap night train.
M: That's the trouble. There aren't any cheap tickets at night. It says so clearly here. It says the cheap tickets are valid only for trains timed to depart between 10 o'clock in the morning and 2:00 in the afternoon. Mum, here it is, not valid for sleepers.
W: That's why the Day, Savers are cheap, you see. They want people to travel at unpopular times.
(23)
A.On the train there would be no cheap tickets.
B.The company is not paying their travel expenses.
C.They would have to leave home very early to catch it.
D.That train wouldn't arrive in Aberdeen until 6:00.
听力原文:W: Well, did you get to find out about tile trains?
M: Yes, I've got the leaflets here. And you got the coaches ,did you?
W: Yes, look, I've just worked it out.
M: Well, that's OK. There are trains all day, according to this. Here, there's one leaving King Cross at 8:00 in the morning.
W: (22) Oh, goodness no. That would mean getting up at 6: 00. Count me out for that one, when's the next?
M: 10 o'clock. Leaves Kings Cross at 10 o'clock, gets into Aberdeen at 17: 21. Not bad. Seven hours and a bit on the way. It's 530 miles, after all.
W: I suppose it's very expensive, isn't it?
M: No, (23) what about going by plane?
W: You know how I feel about flying.
M: What about the coaches? (24) But can you imagine being stuck in a bus for twelve hours? At least on the train you can get up and walk about a bit, you know, stretch your legs.
W: All right, then, you do better. Find me a nice cheap night train.
M: That's the trouble. There aren't any cheap tickets at night. It says so clearly here. It says the cheap tickets are valid only for trains timed to depart between 10 o'clock in the morning and 2:00 in the afternoon. Mum, here it is, not valid for sleepers.
W: (25) That's why the Day, Savers are cheap, you see. They want people to travel at unpopular times.
(23)
A.On the train there would be no cheap tickets.
B.The company is not paying their travel expenses.
C.They would have to leave home very early to catch it.
D.That train wouldn't arrive in Aberdeen until 6:00.
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