所属专辑:新版新概念英语第二册(英音)
歌手: 朗文
时长: 02:10
--- lesson 76 april fools' day[00:00:01]
--- first listen and then answer the question.[00:00:06]
--- what was the joke?[00:00:13]
'to end our special news bulletin,' said the voice of the television announcer,^“[00:00:17]
'we're going over to the macaroni fields of calabria.^“[00:00:24]
macaroni has been grown in this area for over six hundred years.[00:00:29]
two of the leading growers, giuseppe moldova and riccardo brabante,tell me that they have been expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun earlier than usual.[00:00:35]
here you can see two workers who, between them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brown macaroni stalks.[00:00:52]
the whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the september rains.[00:01:04]
on the right, you can see mrs. brabante herself. she has been helping her husband for thirty years now.[00:01:14]
mrs. brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed.[00:01:23]
this last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest: the famous calabrian macaroni-eating competition![00:01:32]
signor fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1991.[00:01:43]
and that ends our special bulletin for today, thursday, april lst.[00:01:51]
we're now going back to the studio.[00:01:58]
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