长喜英语六级常考时文朗诵100篇 How the British Spend Their Holidays
1.What will people get if they have to work in shifs with unsocial hours? ...
2.Why was a "bank holiday" made by a recent labor government? To ...
3.Where is the most traditional British holiday's destination? ...
4.What are the disadvantages of coast? ...
Nearly all the British people in full-time jobs have at least four weeks’ holiday a year. The normal working week is 35 to 40 hours, Monday to Friday. People who have to work in shifts with unsocial hours are paid extra for the inconvenience. More overtime is worked at extra pay than in most other Western European countries, but there is relatively little “moonlighting” — that is, independent work for pay in leisure hours. There are only eight official public holidays a year, only one of them in the six months before Christmas. None of them celebrates anything to do with state or nation, though the first Monday in May was made a “bank holiday” by a recent Labor government as the British holiday in honor of working people. The most obvious — and traditional — British holiday destination is the coast. No place in the country is more than three hours’ journey from some part of it. The coast is full of variety, with good cliffs and rocks between the beaches, but the uncertain weather and cold sea are serious disadvantages. Also, two weeks in a hotel room with balcony and private bath can now cost less in Spain or Greece, with flights included, than the same in a British hotel. Most of the hotels in the numerous seaside resort towns were built in the railway age, between 50 and 100 years ago, and seem not to be used as much by people going to conferences as by those on holiday. Going to a conference can be a sort of holiday, even in working time and with expenses paid.
