練習材料：
L36-1：A chance ina million
We are lesscredulous than we used to be. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bringhis story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series ofcoincidences -- most of them wildly improbable. Readers happily accepted thefact that an obscure maidservant was really the hero's mother. A long-lostbrother, who was presumed dead, was really alive all the time and wickedlyplotting to bring about the hero's downfall. And so on. Modern readers wouldfind such naive solutions totally unacceptable. Yet, in real life,circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyonebut a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.
When I was a boy,my grandfather told me how a German taxi driver, Franz Bussman, found a brotherwho was thought to have been killed twenty years before. While on a walkingtour with his wife, he stooped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on,Mrs. Bussman commented on the workman's close resemblance to her husband andeven suggested that he might be his brother.
? ?ɑ?ns ?n ? ?m?lj?n
wi? ɑ? l?s ?kr?dj?l?s e?n wi? ju?zd tu? bi?. ?n
e? ?na?n?ti??θ ?s?n??ri, ? ?n?v?l?st w?d br?? h?z ?st??ri tu? ? k?n?klu???n ba?
pr??z?nt?? h?z ?ri?d?z w?e ? ?s??ri?z ?v k????ns?d?ns?z -- m??st ?v e?m ?wa?ldli
?m?pr?b?b?l. ?ri?d?z ?h?p?li ?k?s?pt?d e? f?kt e?t ?n ?b?skj?? ?me?d?s??v?nt w?z
?r??li e? ?h??r??z ?m?e?. ? l??-l?st ?br?e?, hu? w?z pr??zju?md d?d, w?z ?r??li
??la?v ??l e? ta?m ?nd ?w?k?dli ?pl?t?? tu? br?? ??ba?t e? ?h??r??z ?da?nf??l.
?nd s?? ?n. ?m?d?n ?ri?d?z w?d fa?nd s?? nɑ??i?v s??lu???n ?t??tli ??n?k?s?pt?b?l. j?t, ?n r??lla?f, ?s??k?mst?ns?z du? ?s?mta?mz k?n?spa?? tu? br?? ??ba?t k????ns?d?ns?z w????n?w?n b?t ? ?na?n?ti??θ ?s?n??ri ?n?v?l?st w?d fa?nd ?n?kr?d?b?l.
w?n a? w?z ? b??,
ma? ?ɡr?nd?fɑ?e? t??ld mi? ha? ? ????m?n ?t?ksi ?dra?v?, fr?nz
Bussman, fa?nd ? ?br?e? hu? w?z θ??t tu? h?v bi?n k?ld ?tw?nti j??z b??f??. wa?l
?n ? ?w??k?? t?? w?e h?z wa?f, hi? stu?pt tu? t??k tu? ? ?w??km?n. ?ɑ?ft? ee? h?d ɡ?n ?n, Mrs. Bussman ?k?m?nt?d ?n e? ?w??km?nz kl??s r??z?mbl?nstu? h?? ?h?zb?nd ?nd ?i?v?n s????st?d e?t hi? ma?t bi? h?z ?br?e?.
任務(wù)配置：L0 + L4
知識筆記：
單詞：1、credulous：輕信的，易受騙的，2、novelist：小說家，3、conclusion：結(jié)論，推論，結(jié)尾，結(jié)果，4、coincidence：并存，巧合，5、improbable：不可能的，6、obscure：模糊的，鮮為人知的，無名的，7、maidservant：女仆，女傭，8、presume：假設(shè)，假定，設(shè)定，9、wickedly：邪惡地，10、plot：情節(jié)，陰謀，密謀，暗中策劃，11、downfall：衰敗，衰落，12、na?ve：缺乏經(jīng)驗的，幼稚的，無知的，13、solution：解決方案，處理手段，14、conspire：共謀，密謀，15、walking tour：徒步旅行，16、commented：表達意見，17、resemblance：相似，相像，18、
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練習感悟：今天的文章也不算很容易了，還好語速不算很快，錄了三四遍達標。
