练习材料
They offered to pay $10 a pound for the biggest biscuit baked by a listener. The response to this competition was tremendous. Before long, biscuits of all shapes and sizes began arriving at the factory. One lady brought in a biscuit on a wheelbarrow. It weighed nearly 500 pounds. A little later, a man came along with a biscuit which occupied the whole boot of his car. All the biscuits that were sent were carefully weighed. The largest was 713 pounds. It seemed certain that this would win the prize. But just before the competition closed, a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly colossal biscuit which weighed 2400 pounds. It had been baked by a college student who had used over 1000 pounds of flour, 800 pounds of sugar, 200 pounds of fat, and 400 pounds of various other ingredients. It was so heavy that a crane had to be used to remove it from the lorry. The manufacturers had to pay more money than they had anticipated, for they bought the biscuit from the student for $24000.
任务配置
L0+1+3
知识笔记
wheelbarrow /'wilbæro/ 独轮手推车
colossal /kə'lɑsl/ 巨大的，非常的
24000 读法：twenty four thousand
crane 1. n. 鹤；吊车，起重机 2. vi. 伸着脖子看；迟疑，踌躇
练习感受
昨天的内容好难，哈哈！
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