伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料:

L21-2：Daniel Mendoza 

The two men quarrelled bitterly and it was clear that the argument could only be settled by a fight.

A match was held at Stilton,

where both men fought for an hour.

The public bet a great deal of money on Mendoza,

but he was defeated.

Mendoza met Humphries in the ring on a later occasion and he lost for a second time.

It was not until his third match in 1790 that he finally beat Humphries and became Champion of England.

Meanwhile,

he founded a highly successful Academy and even Lord Byron became one of his pupils.

He earned enormous sums of money and was paid as much as $100 for a single appearance of his pupils.

Despite this, he was so extravagant that he was always in debt.

After he was defeated by a boxer called Gentleman Jackson,

he was quickly forgotten.

He was sent to prison for failing to pay his debts and died in poverty in 1836.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记： quarrelled/kwɒrəld    bitterly/bɪtəli    founded / faʊndɪd    Academy/əˈkædəmi    enormous/ɪˈnɔːməs    extravagant/ɪksˈtrævɪgənt    debt/ dɛt    poverty /pɒvəti   

练习感悟：这篇课文的下半段也同样不轻松，又是一个慢长的朗读与重来的考验。总算完成。一旦读快了，音就不容易发准，因此在时间允许的范围内，追求质量，不追求速度。