Sixty Years of Married Life

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1、TheQueen:SixtyYearsofMarriedLife女王六十年的婚姻生活1TheQueen:SixtyYearsofMarriedLife女王六十年的婚姻生活Readthetextbelowanddotheactivitythatfollows.阅读下面的短文，然后完成练习:TheQueen:SixtyYearsofMarriedLife女王六十年的婚姻生活Howwouldyoucelebrateyourweddinganniversary?Apartywithyourfriendsperhaps,ormaybeadinnerfortwoinasmall

2、intimaterestaurant?Britain’sreigningmonarchQueenElizabethIIandherhusbandPrincePhiliphavecelebratedtheir60thweddinganniversary,calledtheirdiamondanniversary,withaserviceinWestminsterAbbey,with2000guests.AmongsttheguestswerefivechoristersfromtheQueen’sweddingin1947,aswellas10coupleswhoma

3、rriedonthesameday.TheservicewasalsowatchedbyPrimeMinisterGordonBrownaswellashispredecessorsJohnMajorandBaronessThatcher.TheQueenisthefirstBritishmonarchtoreachadiamondweddinganniversary.Oneofthecouples,whomarriedonthesamedayastheQueen,MargaretandHoraceBunn,saidmeetingtheroyalcouplehadb

4、eenthe"icingonthecake".MrBunntoldBBCNews:"WehadabitofanideawemightmeettheQueenbutwedidn'tknowitwasgoingtohappen."Hiswifeadded:"Wewerereallylookingforwardtomeetingherandshewassonice."Morethan30RoyalFamilymemberswerethereattheceremony,andthepartyisn’tabouttoendsoon.Asifsuchahugecelebrati

5、onwasn’tenough,theQueenhasreleasedsixtyfabulousfactsabouttheBritishmonarchyasawayofgettingthewholenationinvolved.Theymakeinterestingreading.TopofthelistcomesnewsoftheDukeofEdinburgh’spre-marriagepartycelebration,his‘stag’party.Astagpartyisanallmaleeventoftenheldjustbeforeamangetsmarrie

6、d.Notcontentwithjustoneparty,TheDukeofEdinburghhadtwobeforehisweddingtotheQueenin1947!Checkoutwww.royal.gov.ukforthefulllistoffacts.2Glossary词汇表celebrate庆祝weddinganniversary结婚纪念日intimate适合约会的（餐厅或气氛）reigningmonarch执政君主diamondanniversary钻石婚choristers唱诗班歌手icingonthecake锦上添花，好上加好ceremony（庆

7、祝）仪式（指一件原本已经很好的事情变得更好）hugecelebration大型庆祝活动Britishmonarchy英国君主interestingreading有趣儿的读物stagparty只限男子参加的聚会（尤指为准新郎举行的）31.ReadingQuiz阅读测验Arethesesentencestrueorfalse?Circlethecorrectanswer.以下句子哪句是真?哪句是假？请圈出正确答案。1.TheQueenandPrincePhiliphadanintimatedinnertocelebratetheirweddinganniversar