2000 Years Ago, страница 72 - гдз по английскому языку 5 класс книга для чтения Верещагина, Афанасьева

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13 2000 Years Ago

Julius Caesar,¹ the great Roman general, came to Britain in 54 BC. A hundred years later the Romans came again, and this time they stayed for four hundred years. So Britain became a part of the Roman Empire. Romans built a lot of roads and cities with fine houses in them. They also put a strong stone wall around each city to keep it safe. So straight and so good were the Roman roads that even today some of them are still used as main roads in England.

Some of the Roman cities in Britain had fine baths. They were very good. Some of them were just as good as in Rome. One of the cities in England is called the City of Bath. The Roman baths are even today in use in it.

One of the oldest buildings in Britain is the Roman lighthouse, or Pharos ['feǝrɒs], at Dover ['dǝuvǝ]. Lighthouses haven't changed much in 1700 years, have they?

The Romans didn't need carpets - they had central heating under the floors of their houses and decorated their floors with pictures in coloured stones. The picture of a dancing girl was found in a Roman villa in Sussex.¹ It is over 1700 years old.

Two thousand years before the Romans came there, the ancient people of Britain started building Stonehenge.² The newest parts of it were built in about 1400 BC - more than three thousand years ago. Nobody knows exactly what Stonehenge was. Some people say it was a kind of clock.

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