第18期雙語笑話加練習題 什么顏色 What Color(1)
An impoverished graduate student at Clemson University in South Carolina, I was excited when my father informed me that he had bought me a car. Hardly able to contain my enthusiasm, I asked Dad the typical questions: "What kind is it? Does it have a stick shift? Does it have a tape deck?"
"It's a 1982 Toyota," he replied. "It's a four speed, and, yes, it has a tape deck . " Pleased, I asked what color it was.
"Well, " he said uncomfortably, " which part?"
Notes:
(1) impoverished adj.窮困的
(2) South Carolina 南卡羅萊那(美國州名)
(3) inform v.告知
(4) contain v.控制(情緒等)
(5) enthusiasm n.熱情
(6) typical adj.典型的
(7) stick shift 手排擋
(8) tape deck 磁帶艙
Exercises:
根據短文判斷下列句子正(T)、(F):
① The graduate student couldn't afford a car himself.
② When his father told him that a car had been bought for him he was excited.
③ He controlled his excitement and didn't ask any questions.
④ He wanted a car with a stick shift.
⑤ He got a second-hand colored car.
(1) (2)
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