介绍:
Passage 2
Scripts and answers
People joke that no one in Los Angeles reads; everyone watches TV, rents videos, or goes to the movies. The most popular reading materials are 1) comic books, movie magazines, and TV guides. City libraries have only 10 percent of the 2) traffic that car washes have. But how do you explain this? A yearly book festival in west Los Angeles is 3) constantly “sold out” year after year. People wait half an hour for a parking space to become 4) available.
This outdoor festival, supported by a newspaper, takes place every April for one weekend. This year, about 70,000 people 5) took part in the festival on Saturday and 75,000 on Sunday. The festival 6) attracted 280 exhibitors. There were about 90 talks given by authors, with an 7) audience question-and-answer period following each talk. A food court sold all kinds of local foods, from hotdogs to ice drinks. Except for a $7 parking fee, the festival was 8) free of charge. Even so, some people take their own sandwiches and drinks to avoid the high prices of the food court.
The idea for holding the festival in Los Angles was 9) put forward years ago, but nobody knew if it would succeed. Although book festivals were already popular in other US cities, would people in this city 10) embrace one? “Fortunately, they do,” said one of the festival founders.
1. People joke that 人们打趣地说…
2. rents videos 租视频光碟
3. reading materials 阅读材料
4. comic books 漫画书
5. movie magazines 电影杂志
6. TV guides 电视指南
7. car wash 洗车场
8. A yearly book festival 每年一度的读书节
9. constantly 不断地
10. parking space 停车场
11. become available.变得可用的
12. outdoor festival 室外节日
13. attracted 280 exhibitors.吸引了280名参展人员/单位
14. A food court食品广场
15. parking fee 停车费
16. free of charge 免费的
17. put forward an idea 提出一个想法
18. embrace an idea/practice 接受这个做法
19. Fortunately: luckily
20. festival founders 节日的创立者
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