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Greenwich(格林威治)is on the River, five miles from the middle of London, and its history is two thousand years old. The first English people were fishermen there, and they named the place Greenwich, meaning“green village”. Later the English kings and queens lived at Greenwich in their beautiful places.
The name of the earliest palace was Placentia. Its windows were made of glass－the first in England. Henry Ⅷ lived there. He knew that England must be strong at sea. So he started two big ship-yards(船 坞)at Greenwich, and for 350 years the ships which were made there were the best in the world.
But trouble was coming to Greenwich. In 1649, a war started in England and for eleven years there was no king. The men who had worked for him at Placentia decided to live in the place themselves. They sold all its beautiful things, and bought small pieces of the palace garden with money. Finally, the war ended and King Charles Ⅱ came back. But Placentia was falling down. So King Charles built a new and bigger palace, which is now open to the public.
At this time, Charles was worried about losing so many of its ships at sea: their sailors did not know how to tell exactly where they were. So in 1675, Charles make John Flamsteed, the first astronomer(天文学家) in England, try to find the answer. Flamsteed worked in a new building on the high ground in Greenwich Park. From it with a telescope which he made himself, Flamsteed could look all round the sky. And he did, night after night, for twenty years. Carrying on Flamsteed’s work a hundred years later, an astronomer called Harrison finally made a clock which told the time at sea, and helped sailors to know where they were. Yoa can see Harrison’s clock, still working, in Greenwich’s museum of the sea. Because of Flamsteed’s work, every country in the world now tells its time by Greenwich time.
1．The first English people living in the“green village”were ________.
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A．sailors
B．fishermen
C．King Charles and his family
D．the families of king and queens
2．Placentia was ________ palace in Greenwich.
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3．What kind of trouble came to Greenwich in 1649?
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A．A war started in England.
B．Placentia was destroyed.
C．Ship-yards were built.
D．King Henry died.
4．Charles made John Flamsteed try to find ________.
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A．how to tell the time
B．how to build ships
C．a way for sailors to tell their positions at sea
D．a place to set up a telescope
5．Who made the first clock which could tell the time at sea?
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6．Without Flamsteed’s work, it would be ________ for sailors to know where they were.
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选词填空
set about开始(着手)做某事 set back(把表)往回拨
set an example树立榜样 set down放下，写下，记下
set fire to放火烧着 set off动身 set out动身，出发，着手，开始
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