英語口語大贏家Topic158:報亭軼事Anecdotes of the Newsstand
看報紙不用付錢，這樣的事情沒有見到過吧，可是這樣的新鮮事在這裏卻發生了，究竟是什麼特殊情況呢？
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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!
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阿美：請回來。你還沒有付錢呢？
老闆：阿美，讓他走吧。
阿美：但是他沒有付錢就把報紙拿走了。
老闆：我知道。
阿美：爲什麼？你把我弄糊塗了。
老闆：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：爲什麼他有這種特權呢？
老闆：戰爭時期他曾經是個英雄，這裏的人都尊敬他。
阿美：知道了，他一個人住嗎？
老闆：是的，他沒有孩子，他的妻子也在戰爭時期去世了。
阿美：他一定很孤獨了？
老闆：我猜是的。但是他總是忙着給孩子們講故事。
阿美：真是可敬！
經典背誦 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
nearby adj. 附近的
glance vi. 瞥見
headline n. 大標題
political adj. 政治的
privilege n. 特權
pass away 去世
respectable adj. 值得尊敬的
單詞擴展 Vocabulary Builder
報紙版面的詞彙
基礎詞彙
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
提高詞彙
exclusive news 獨家新聞
the page 頭版
criticism 評論
editorial 社論
icality 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彙的英文和中文，另一方用該詞彙填入下面的句子，大聲朗讀並表演出來，並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. 因爲他只喜歡那個版塊。
