每周一报：Battle of the Oranges 桔子大战

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每周一报：Battle of the Oranges 桔子大战

文字稿 A battle is about to start in this northern Italian city. And this is the ammunition. During the festival, hundreds of revellers pour into Ivrea to take part in the historic 'Battle of the Oranges'. The tradition is said to date back to a 12th century uprising against a tyrant. Some 500 tonnes of juicy fruit are shipped from Sicily for the occasion. 一场战斗即将在意大利北部的这个城市开始。 武器弹药嘛就是这些桔子。节日期间成千上万的狂欢者涌入伊夫雷亚参加历史性的“桔子大战。 据说这一传统可追述到12世纪的一次反抗暴君起义。 大约500 吨鲜润多汁的桔子从西西里岛被海运过来备用。 练习 以下练习中的语句全部选自于其他网页。请从下面的词汇表里选择答案来完成句子。注意：你可能需要改变单词的时态来完成句子。 ammunition / revellers / uprising / tyrant / juicy 1. Thousands of people have gathered across the UK to watch New Year's Eve fireworks to herald the start of 2015. Some 100,000 __________ lined the River Thames in London for the first ticketed New Year's display. 2. Apple growers are expecting a "delicious and __________" early harvest after sustained fine weather. 3. In the 1976 anti-apartheid __________, black students were protesting against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in government schools. 4. Five rifles and four shotguns, along with __________ and thousands of pounds worth of jewellery, have been stolen from a property in Surrey. 5. In fact, the ancient Greek word "tyrannos" (from which our term comes) was originally a fairly neutral word for a sole ruler, good or bad. Of course, there had been some very nasty monarchs and despots before Caligula. But, so far as we know, none of his predecessors had ever ticked all the boxes of a fully-fledged __________, in the modern sense. 词汇 ammunition 武器，弹药 revellers 欢庆聚会者 uprising 起义 tyrant 暴君 juicy 鲜润多汁的 答案 1. Thousands of people have gathered across the UK to watch New Year's Eve fireworks to herald the start of 2015. Some 100,000 revellers lined the River Thames in London for the first ticketed New Year's display. 2. Apple growers are expecting a "delicious and juicy" early harvest after sustained fine weather. 3. In the 1976 anti-apartheid uprising, black students were protesting against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in government schools. 4. Five rifles and four shotguns, along with ammunition and thousands of pounds worth of jewellery, have been stolen from a property in Surrey. 5. In fact, the ancient Greek word "tyrannos" (from which our term comes) was originally a fairly neutral word for a sole ruler, good or bad. Of course, there had been some very nasty monarchs and despots before Caligula. But, so far as we know, none of his predecessors had ever ticked all the boxes of a fully-fledged tyrant, in the modern sense.