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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：请回来。你还没有付钱呢?

老板：阿美，让他走吧。

阿美：但是他没有付钱就把报纸拿走了。

老板：我知道。

阿美：为什么?你把我弄糊涂了。

老板：他住在附近，他只是浏览一下报纸的大标题，等一下就会把报纸还回来的。

阿美：为什么他有这种特权呢?

老板：战争时期他曾经是个英雄，这里的人都尊敬他。

阿美：知道了，他一个人住吗?

老板：是的，他没有孩子，他的妻子也在战争时期去世了。

阿美：他一定很孤独了?

老板：我猜是的。但是他总是忙着给孩子们讲故事。

阿美：真是可敬!

经典背诵 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?

生词小结

nearby adj. 附近的

glance vi. 瞥见

headline n. 大标题

political adj. 政治的

privilege n. 特权

pass away 去世

respectable adj. 值得尊敬的

单词扩展 Vocabulary Builder

报纸版面的词汇

基础词汇

headline 大标题

column 专栏

scoop 特训

feature 特写

big news 头条新闻

hot news 最新消息

book review 书评

letters 读者投书栏

提高词汇

exclusive news 独家新闻

the top page 头版

criticism 评论

editorial 社论

topicality 时事问题

serial story 新闻小说

public notice 公告

city news 社会新闻

家庭总动员 Do it together

两人一组，一方随机大声读出上面词汇的英文和中文，另一方用该词汇填入下面的句子，大声朗读并表演出来，并用中文给出一个理由。

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

[例] 家长读 column 专栏

孩子读 He would just glance at the newspaper’s column. 因为他只喜欢那个版块。