Lesson 76 April Fools Day
To end our special news bulletin, ' said the voice of the television announcer,' we are going over to the macaroni fields of Calabria. Macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years. Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricardo Brabante, tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual. Here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cart-loads of golden brown macaroni stalks. The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the September rains. On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante herself. She has been helping her husband for thirty years now. Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed. This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous Calabrian macaroni-eating competition! Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991. And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st. We are now going back to the studio.'
bulletin [ˈbʊlətɪn] 新闻简报;公告
announcer [əˈnaʊnsər] 播音员
macaroni [ˌmækəˈroʊni] 通心粉
splendid [ˈsplendɪd] 壮观的;华丽的;
crop [krɑːp] 庄稼;作物;
harvest [ˈhɑːrvɪst] 收获季节;收割;
cartload [ˈkɑːrtloʊd] 一大车的装载量
stalk [stɔːk] 秆，
thresh [θreʃ] (用机器使)脱粒;打(稻、麦);
process[ˈprɑːses] 加工
2022的最后一天了，嗓子还没有完全恢复，沙哑着完成了今天的朗读。明年，一切会好起来的。加油！
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