橙子的ScalersTalk第六轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day 1

练习材料：[Day 2766 2022-04-22]

L45-2:The power of the press

But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets, fourgirls and a boy, anevent which radically

changed their lives.The day after the birth ofthe five children an aeroplanearrived in Aberdeen bringing 60 reporters and photographers. The rise to famewas swift. Television cameras and newspapers carried the news to everyone inthe country.Newspapers and magazines offeredthe family huge sums for the exclusive rights to publish stories andphotographs. Gifts poured in not only from unknown people, but from baby foodand soap manufacturers who wished to advertise their products. The oldfarmhouse the family lived in was to be replaced by a new $500,000 home.Reporters kept pressing for interviews so lawyers had to be employed to act asspokesmen for the family at press conferences. While the five babies were stillquietly sleeping in oxygen tents in a hospital nursery, their parents werepaying the price for fame. It would never again be possiblefor them to lead normal lives. They had become the victims of commercialization,for their names had acquired a market value.Instead of being five new family members, these children had immediatelybecome a commodity.

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