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一.过去的回顾
英语外刊拓展阅读:新概念英语第三册第39课
【参考答案】
1-5 TFFTT
二、本期内容
[文本主题]
第40课讲了一个关于诈骗的故事,所以我选了一篇关于几个著名骗子的文章。
【延伸阅读】
一.条款内容
Frank Abagnale
In the Hollywood blockbuster, Catch Me if You Can, Leonardo DiCaprio plays Frank Abagnale. Abagnale was a precocious teen con man who got away with some of the most outrageous cons in modern history.
Abagnale impersonated an airline pilot, a doctor, and an attorney all before his 21st birthday. He was able to elude authorities for many years before finally being arrested and jailed in Europe. He was ultimately extradited to the United States, he escaped from the airplane onto the tarmac at JFK and was on the lamb shortly before he was arrested while trying to enter Canada.
Abagnale turned his life around and has actually been working with the F.B.I. for almost 40 years and owns a consulting firm.
Victor Lustig
The man who sold the Eiffel Tower. Lustig took advantage of a newspaper article describing the high costs for maintenance for the tower. The tower was built for the 1889 Paris Exposition and was never intended to be a permanent structure.
The city of Paris was struggling to pay for the tower and Lustig saw an opportunity.
He sent a seemingly official letter to the largest scrap metal dealer in Paris, offering them the opportunity to bid for the contract to dismantle the tower for scrap. He asked the dealer to keep the very secret quotation, so as not to make the Parisians who didn't want to turn the tower into a pile of scrap iron feel uneasy.
Lustig took the scrap metal dealers to tour the tower in limousines and set up his workspace in the fanciest hotel in Paris.
One of the dealers fell for the con hook, line, and sinker. Andre Poisson. Poisson had even gone so far as to offer Lustig a bribe to make sure that he was the winning bidder. Poisson gave Lustig $70,000 and never saw him again. Poor Poisson was so embarrassed at being conned that he never even went to the authorities to report Lustig.
Lustig ended up in the United States after fleeing Paris. He set up shop as a counterfeiter. He was working with a chemist and making very convincing fake money.
Lustig was ultimately caught when his girlfriend called in an anonymous tip after discovering that he was cheating on her.
[词汇注释]
1.大片:非常成功的书(或电影)
2. precocious: precocious
3.骗局:一个骗局
4.令人发指:骇人听闻;不正常;意外的
5. simulation: impersonation
6. Lawyer: Lawyer
7.躲避:避开
8.监狱:监禁
9. Extradition: extradition
10.停机坪:停机坪
11. Permanent: Permanent
12.废料:碎片;浪费
13.豪华轿车:豪华轿车
14.钩子:诱饵
15.逃跑:逃跑
16. Forger: Forger
17. finally: finally
18. Anonymous: Anonymous
二、阅读题目
根据短文,回答下列问题:
1. What is the rough margin (in days) between a solar year and a lunar one?
2. What is the key to the exact division of of years by days and months?
3. How many days is there in a leap year?
4. How can the surplus of the solar over the lunar year be rectified in a lunar calendar?
5. What is the Egyptian solar year formula?
三、参考答案
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