As you are students of English，its very possible that you’ll be interested in England．

Thats where the language was first spoken．But England is often called by other nalTles．This often Confuses people．and l wonder if you know what these natnes mean．So,now Iwould like to tell you about mis matter of names．I believe that you．have heard people use thenames England，Britain or Great Britain．Lets see what each of these names means．

If you look at a map of Europe．you’11 see a group of islands-one larger island off thenorthwest coast，one smaller and many tiny ones．These make up what is called the British Isles(不列颠群岛)．The largest island of the British Isles is Britain．It is also called Great Brit—ain．The smaller island is keland(爱尔兰)．

Britain is divided into three parts：Scotland，Wales and England．But sometimes the Word“England”is used instead of“Britain”．Why so?

In ancient times，what is Britain now used to be three different countries，People in these different countries spoke different language．Over many years the three countries became one．England is the largest and richest of the three and it has the most people．So the English people take it for granted that their own name stands for the whole island．

There’s another thing that confuses people：sometimes you may hear people say＂the Untied Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland＂。That is official name of the country．Northern Ireland is only one sixth of the island of Ireland．The rest of the island is an independent state ,called the Republic of Ireland．So we have the names of"England＂，"Britain"， "Great Britain"，and"the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"． Now do you know what each of them means?

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English was first spoken in__________．

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2．广告能提供我们大量的信息。

3．然而，广告不一定都真实。

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A．See you this evening

B．Ive gotta run

C．See you again

D．won’t be back for supper

E．Ill go to the office

F．Take care

G．Don’t worry

H．Ill just take the subway

Gary：Dear，I have to go to the office early today．Can you take Sally to school?Ada：Sure．Want me to give you a ride?

Gary:N0，forget it． ____56____ ．it’s very quick．Ill pick Sally up this afterrnoon．You can just come home after work．

Ada：Ok．Oh，I almost forgot．I probably 57．Ive made an evening appointment

with Mr．Steven to talk about our next project．

Gary：Oh，I see．____58____．Hurry Sally up a little．She hasnt even had her breakfast yet．Ada：Ok． ____59____．Love you，honey．

Gary：I love you，too．____60____．

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The application of infrared scanning technolgy to agriculture met with some difficul-ties due to_________．

Plants will emit an increased amount of heat when they are_________

Farmers can save a considerable amount of pesticide by_________．

Even plants can run a fever，especially when they’re under attack by insects or disease．But unlike humans，plants Can have their temperature taken from 3,000 feet away—straightup．A decade ago，adapting the infrared(红外线)scanning technology developed for militarypurposes and other satellites，physicist Stephen Paley came up with a quick way to take thetemperature of crops to determine which ones are under stress．The goal was to let farmers pre-cisely target pesticide(杀虫剂)spraying rather than rain poison on a whole field，which in-variably includes plants that don’t have pest(害虫)problems．

Even better．Paley’s Remote Scanning Services Company could detect crop problems be-fore they became visible to the eye．Mounted on a plane flown at 3，000 feet at night，an infra-red scanner measured the heat emitted by crops．The data were transformed into a color-codemap showing where plants were running“fevers”．Farmers could then spot-spray，using 50 to70 percent less pesticide than they otherwise would．

The bad news is that Paleys company closed down in 1984，after only three years．Farm,ers resisted the new technology and long-term backers were hard to find．But with the　renewedconcem about pesticides on produce，and refinements in infrared scanning，Paley hopes to getback into operation．Agriculture experts have no doubt the technology works．“This techniquecan be used on 75 percent of agricultural land in the United States"，says George Oerther ofTexas A&M．Ray Jackson，who recently retired from the Department of Agricuhrue，thinks re-mote infrared crop scanning could be adopted by the end of the decade．But only if Paley findsthe financial backing which he failed to obtain 10 years ago．

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In order to apply pesticide spraying precisely，we call use infrared scanning to _________.