[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:A Famous Clock] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:13.61]Has Big Ben ever gone wrong? [00:19.17]When you visit London, [00:21.33]one of the first things you will see is Big Ben, [00:25.77]the famous clock which can be heard all over the world on the B.B.C. [00:32.17]If the Houses of Parliament had not been burned down in 1834, [00:37.88]the great clock would never have been erected. [00:42.17]Big Ben takes its name from Sir Benjamin Hall who was responsible for the making of the clock [00:51.01]when the new Houses of Parliament were being built. [00:55.45]It is not only of immense size, but is extremely accurate as well. [01:03.19]Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day. [01:09.81]On the B.B.C. you can hear the clock when it is actually striking because microphones are connected to the clock tower. [01:20.76]Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. [01:23.85]Once, however, it failed to give the correct time. [01:28.45]A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!