The tower was built in 1858. The project architect was Augustus Pugin. The height of the tower and spire is 96.3 m.<span>Big Ben is one of the best-known landmarks in Europe. Nowadays the word Big Ben connects the bell, the clock and the tower at the same time. The tower is closed to the general public, but people with a "special interest" might offer an excursion for additional payment.</span>
Now we have the age of technology. We all can't imagine how to live without Sewerage, gas stoves, metro, mobile, computers. Even hard to imagine that the earlier book was worth its weight in gold. I wonder what will happen 500 years from now? The city, as the most ancient and yet most modern form of human settlement - a subject of steadfast attention not only of architects, historians, geographers, economists, art critics, but also a wide range <span>of people of different professions
</span><span>Уже сейчас у нас век технологий. Все мы не можем себе представить, как жить без канализации, газовой плиты, метро, мобильных, компьютеров. Даже с трудом можно представить, что раньше книги были на вес золота. Интересно, а что будет лет через 500? Город, как наиболее древняя и вместе с тем, самая современная форма расселения людей - предмет пристального внимания не только архитекторов, историков, географов, экономистов, искусствоведов, но и широкого круга людей различных профессий
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Walk,glass,sun,jeans, swim,прости больше не могу просто уходить надо так бы поискал;(
Find a mistake in one of the parts (A, B, C or D) of the sentences. There is only one mistake.
Type in the spaces provided a letter A B, C or D of the incorrect part of a sentence.
1 Many of the recording instruments used in B various branches of science are kymographs.
2 It was near A the end of prehistoric times that the first wheeled vehicles appeared.
3 Martin Luther King Jr.'s magnificent speaking ability B enabled him to effectively express the demands for social justice for Black Americans.
4 Designers of athletic footwear finely tune each category of shoe to its C particular activity by studying human motion and physiology.
5 Gothic Revival architecture has several B basic characteristics that distinguish it from other nineteenth-century architectural styles.
Lately television has been criticized as it shows too much sex and violence.There are too many war films and, too many stories about criminal and the police, who shoot people as if they were rabbits. А lot of people dont want television to show sex,violence and cruelty.They say such programmes,should never be run at prime time or any other time when young children can see them. People also criticize bad-taste programmes where rude jokes are made or where people are made to fight over a sum of money or programmes spying on people at the most intimate moments of their lives. Such programmes give examples of humiliation and bad taste. Above all most of TV views dislike TV commercials that can spoil the impression of a goo