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Benjamin：How big is this parking lot in our community?

Security guard: It has fifty parking spaces.

Benjamin: So you guys should be always busy.

Security guard: Why?

Benjamin: I bet it is always full of cars.

Security guard: Quite the contrary, sir. Plenty of the spaces here are free when people drive their cars out to work.

Benjamin: Ah…I see.

Security guard: We plan to rent some of them out at the hourly rates.

Benjamin: What is the hourly rate for a car like this?

Security guard: I am not sure. But it’ll be at least ten yuan an hour.

Benjamin: How mush would it cost if someone parks here for one hour and ten minutes?

Security guard: That would be twenty yuan, sir. We charge only by the number of hours, no split of each hour.

Benjamin: That’s expensive.

聽看學

本杰明：我們社區的停車場有多大?

保安：這兒有50個停車位。

本杰明：那你們一定會很忙吧。

保安：為什么呢?

本杰明：我猜它一直車滿為患。

保安：恰恰相反，先生。人們把車開出去上班時，這兒很多車位都空了。

本杰明：呵......我知道了。

保安：我們打算把一部分車位按小時收費租出去。

本杰明：那每小時停車收費是多少呢?

保安：我不敢肯定。不過不會少于10元錢。

本杰明：如果有人在這里停了1小時零10分鐘呢?

保安：那就是20塊錢了，先生。我們只按小時整點收費，不按部分收費。

經典背誦 Recitation

Security guard: There are fifty parking spaces in our community’s parking lot. But it’s almost empty during the day time because people drive their cars out to work . So I suppose it’s a good idea to rent some of the parking spaces out at hourly rates. That would be a good way to make some money.

生詞小結

community n. 社區

bet vi. 打賭

contrary n. 反面，相反

rent vt. 出租

rate n. 比率

cost vt. 花費

split n. 部分，裂片

單詞擴展 Vocabulary Builder

汽車種類的詞匯

jeep 吉普車

truck 卡車

bus 巴士

taxi 出租車

mail car 郵車

police car 警車

van 面包車

trailer 拖車

sports car 跑車

ambulance 救護車

racing car 賽車

minibus 面包車

saloon 轎車

station wagon 旅行車

wrecker 清障車

convertible 敞篷車

家庭總動員 Do it together

兩人一組，一方隨機大聲讀出上面詞匯的英文和中文，另一方用該詞匯填入下面的句子，大聲朗讀并表演出來，并用中文給出一個理由。

You can’t park your ( )here.

[例] 家長讀jeep 吉普車

孩子讀You can’t park your jeep here. 因為這兒是救護車專用車位!