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Unit 1 Happy New Millennium! Part I Warming up Tapescript. 1. The world is greeting the year 2000 with much celebration. The first nation to celebrate was Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean. 2. In China, President Jiang Zemin lit a fire to represent thousands of years of Chinese civilization. The traditional Chinese New Year begins in February. 3. Russia covering two continents will have the worlds longest New Year celebrations. 4. Former South African President Nelson Mandela says he is hoping for a safer and more caring world in the next century. The former President also said science has given the world new ways to meet the needs of the world population. 5. Welcome from London. Welcome from the BBC World Service to the 21st century. The year 2000 has arrived in Britain when the chimes of Londons Big Ben signaled midnight. Huge crowds cheered as spectacular fireworks displays went along several kilometers of the Thames. 6. Welcome to the Pacific, welcome to Millennium Island. Very shortly We and the tiny Republic of Kiribati will take the worlds, very first step into the year 2000. 7. New Zealand is greeting the new millennium with fireworks and parties. As the clock struck midnight, thousands of people braved rain showers to attend midnight celebration, fireworks and concerts. 8. In Australia a firework display lit up the sky over Sydneys famous harbor at the stroke of midnight. Earlier, the new century began its 24-hour march around the globe in the tiny South Pacific island nation of Kiribati. 9. Joyous celebrations took place across Asia to celebrate the turn of the century and the start of the new millennium. In Hongkong, tens of thousands of people started the New Year at the race track, where a horse race began just after midnight. 10. More than 3,500 people lined Singapores Orchard Road to cheer the new century while hundreds of balloons were released into the sky. 11. In Vietnam, hundreds of thousands of people crowded the streets of Hanoi and Huzhiming C