【超级口语十分钟｜Historic Buildings 历史建筑】

问题： Who should pay for the maintenance of historical buildings, the visitors or the government? 高分回答： I think both the visitors and the government should pay for the maintenance of these historical buildings. Visitors need to pay because they are the ones who actually use these buildings, so naturally it’d make sense to let them pay for the majority of the cost of maintaining these buildings. But we can’t rely just on therevenue from visitors alone, because this way the price of tickets will be way too high for the visitors to afford, and this will discourage people from visiting these historical places. So the government, or the taxpayers, I should say, should pay a fair share for these historical places as well, since protecting history is the duty of every citizen, not just the ones who are interested in history. 语料积累 重点词汇 revenue  n. 营业额 alone  adv. 只，仅仅 ticket  n. 票、门票 afford  v. 买得起 taxpayer  n. 纳税人 高分表达 it’d make sense to do sth 做某事会很合理 discourage sb from sth 使某人不想做某事 a fair share 一个合理的份额 关注超级学长，更多雅思音频等你来听！