伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料：

L40-1 Who’s who

It has never been explained why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else.

Students specialize in a particular type of practical joke: the hoax.

Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in.

Students often create amusing situations which are funny to everyone except the victims.

When a student recently saw two workmen using a pneumatic drill outside his university,

he immediately telephoned the police and informed them that two students dressed up as workmen were tearing up the road with a pneumatic drill.

As soon as he had hung up,

he went over to the workmen and told them that if a policeman ordered them to go away,

they were not take him seriously.

He added that a student had dressed up as a policeman and was playing all sorts of silly jokes on people.

Both the police and the workmen were grateful to the student for this piece of advance information.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：    practical/præktəkəl    particular/pərˈtɪkjələr    hoax/hoʊks    nonexistent/nɑnəgˈzɪstənt    crude/krud    deception/dɪˈsɛpʃən    self-respecting/sɛlf-respecting  indulge/ɪnˈdʌlʤ      victims/vɪktəmz    pneumatic/nuˈmætɪk    tearing/tɛrɪŋ    drill/drɪl    silly/sɪli    grateful/greɪtfəl   

练习感悟：卡在了前一段的practical与particular上面，重复了多遍，总是是记住了。需要熟读，需要静下来不能急，特别是再后面的几遍，往往乱了思绪。