卖萌的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day15

练习材料：

[Day 1639 2019-03-23]

L36-1：A chance in a million

We are less credulous than we used to be. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable. Readers happily accepted the fact that an obscure maidservant was really the hero's mother. A long-lost brother, who was presumed dead, was really alive all the time and wickedly plotting to bring about the hero's downfall. And so on. Modern readers would find such naive solution totally unacceptable. Yet, in real life, circumstances do sometimes conspire to bring about coincidences which anyone but a nineteenth century novelist would find incredible.

When I was a boy, my grandfather told me how a German taxi driver, Franz Bussman, found a brother who was thought to have been killed twenty years before. While on a walking tour with his wife, he stopped to talk to a workman. After they had gone on, Mrs. Bussman commented on the workman's close resemblance to her husband and even suggested that he might be his brother.

卖萌的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day156 20190323

朗读时间：1‘18/1’17

任务配置： L0+L4

知识笔记：

credulous 轻信的

obscure 不起眼的

presume 假定

wickedly 心眼坏地

plot 密谋

downfall 倒台

conspire （事件）巧合促成

练习感悟：

这篇难度比昨天低！而且今天精神也很好！读起来很顺利！开心！加油！