本次听写选自雅思听力section 4,一般都是说明文为主。

形式: 全文听写

场景背景介绍: 本文介绍了伦敦东部的历史,讲述了公元1世纪被罗马帝国侵占的伦敦,到中世纪时期被盎格鲁-撒克逊人(现今德国、丹麦一带)占领,已至16世纪至今在当地发生的一些变化。2203年在英国出现过一部热门电视剧East Enders, 描述的就是这一地区普通居民的生活现状。这一地区从历史上就是普通工人阶层的聚集地,生活质量相对较差,所以在英国也是社会热点关注。

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the East End
the river Thames
Denmark
Angles
Saxons
Jutes
In the last few weeks, we've been looking at various aspects of the social history of London, and this morning we're continuing with a look at life in the area called the East End. I'll start with a brief history of the district, and then focus on life in the first half of the twentieth century. Back in the first to the fourth centuries AD, when the Romans controlled England, London grew into a town of 45,000 people, and what's now the East End - the area by the river Thames, and along the road heading north-east from London to the coast - consisted of farmland with crops and livestock which helped to feed that population. The Roman left in 410, at the beginning of the fifth century, and from then onwards the country suffered a series of invasions by tribes from present-day German and Denmark, the Angles, Saxon and Jutes, many of whom settled in the East End. The technology they introduced meant that metal and leather goods were produced there for the first time. And as the East End was by the river, ships could transport goods between there and foreign markets.