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May: Come back. You haven’t paid yet.

Boss: May, just let him go.

May: But he took some newspaper away without paying.

Boss: I know.

May: Why? You make me confused.

Boss: He lives nearby and he would just glance at the newspaper headlines, read the political sections and return them later.

May: Why does he have such a privilege?

Boss: He used to be a hero during the war time and everyone respect him.

May: I see. Does he live by himself?

Boss: Yes, he has no children and his wife passed away when he was in the battle.

May: He must be lonely?

Boss: I bet. But he is always busy telling the children stories.

May: How respectable!

聽看學

阿美：請回來。你還沒有付錢呢?

老板：阿美，讓他走吧。

阿美：但是他沒有付錢就把報紙拿走了。

老板：我知道。

阿美：為什么?你把我弄糊涂了。

老板：他住在附近，他只是瀏覽一下報紙的大標題，等一下就會把報紙還回來的。

阿美：為什么他有這種特權(quán)呢?

老板：戰(zhàn)爭時期他曾經(jīng)是個英雄，這里的人都尊敬他。

阿美：知道了，他一個人住嗎?

老板：是的，他沒有孩子，他的妻子也在戰(zhàn)爭時期去世了。

阿美：他一定很孤獨了?

老板：我猜是的。但是他總是忙著給孩子們講故事。

阿美：真是可敬!

經(jīng)典背誦 Recitation

Boss: I run a newsstand. I find that people love reading newspapers in different ways. Some of them never read the whole thing but just glance at the headlines to get the main information. Others do the opposite. Anyhow I don’t really care about how people read their newspapers but I do want to know what their favorite newspapers are?

生詞小結(jié)

nearby adj. 附近的

glance vi. 瞥見

headline n. 大標題

political adj. 政治的

privilege n. 特權(quán)

pass away 去世

respectable adj. 值得尊敬的

單詞擴展 Vocabulary Builder

報紙版面的詞匯

基礎(chǔ)詞匯

headline 大標題

column 專欄

scoop 特訓

feature 特寫

big news 頭條新聞

hot news 最新消息

book review 書評

letters 讀者投書欄

提高詞匯

exclusive news 獨家新聞

the top page 頭版

criticism 評論

editorial 社論

topicality 時事問題

serial story 新聞小說

public notice 公告

city news 社會新聞

家庭總動員 Do it together

兩人一組，一方隨機大聲讀出上面詞匯的英文和中文，另一方用該詞匯填入下面的句子，大聲朗讀并表演出來，并用中文給出一個理由。

He would just glance at the newspaper’s ( ).

[例] 家長讀 column 專欄

孩子讀 He would just glance at the newspaper’s column. 因為他只喜歡那個版塊。