LANGUAGE PRACTICE

The school my parents have selected for my education was one of the most fashionable and expensive in the country. It modeled itself upon Eton and aimed at being preparatory for that Public School above all others. English therefore undergo a significant change because it not only become an important language in the world but also afferent many words of different cultures. | Viewed from the outside at least, the Houses of Parliament give a firm impression of all those (1) which we are supposed to value in the British form of government. The architecture gives the place a (2) look, and the buildings are sandwiched between a busy square and the river, with Westminster Abbey not far away, making them a (3) between the country house of an eccentric duke and a Victorian railway station. You have only to learn that the (4) refer to each other as ‘The Honourable Member for So and So’ to complete the picture of a dignified gentleman’s club, with of course a few ladies to (5) the numbers. Sadly, over the past few years first radio, and now television, have shown the general (6) , who are after all the electorate, what in fact goes on when bills are (7) and questions are asked. The first obvious fact is that the chamber is very rarely full, and there may be only a (8) of members present, some of (9) are quite clearly asleep, telling jokes to their neighbour, or engaged in shouting like badly-behaved schoolchildren. There is not enough (10) . for them all in the chamber in any case, which is a second worrying point. Of course, television does not follow the work of (11) which are the small discussion groups that do most of the real work of the House. But the (12) impression that we as (13) receive of the workings of government is not a good one. To put it bluntly, parliament looks disorganised, is clearly behind the times and seems to be (14) with bores and comedians. This is presumably why members resisted for so long the efforts of the BBC to broadcast parliamentary (15) on television.

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