英语大赢家 上册 082.Topic 2停车与收费 Parking Fee

 经典背诵 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.

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 split¹ of each hour.

 

Benjamin: That's expensive.

 

听看学

 

本杰明：我们社区的停车场有多大？

 

保安：这儿有50个停车位。

 

本杰明：那你们一定会很忙吧。

 

保安：为什么呢？

 

本杰明：我猜它一直车满为患。

 

保安：恰恰相反，先生。人们把车开出去上班时，这儿很多车位都空了。

 

本杰明：呵......我知道了。

 

保安：我们打算把一部分车位按小时收费租出去。

 

本杰明：那每小时停车收费是多少呢？

 

保安：我不敢肯定。不过不会少于10元钱。

 

本杰明：如果有人在这里停了1小时零10分钟呢？

 

保安：那就是20块钱了，先生。我们只按小时整点收费，不按部分收费。

 

 

生词小结

 

communityn. 社区

 

betvi. 打赌

 

contraryn. 反面，相反

 

rentvt. 出租

 

raten. 比率

 

costvt. 花费

 

splitn. 部分，裂片

 

单词扩展 Vocabulary Builder

 

汽车种类的词汇

 

jeep吉普车

 

truck卡车

 

bus巴士

 

taxi出租车

 

mail car邮车

 

police car警车

 

van面包车

 

trailer拖车

 

sports car跑车

 

ambulance救护车

 

racing² car赛车

 

minibus面包车

 

saloon轿车

 

station wagon³旅行车

 

wrecker清障车

 

convertible⁴敞篷车

 

家庭总动员 Do it together

 

两人一组，一方随机大声读出上面词汇的英文和中文，另一方用该词汇填入下面的句子，大声朗读并表演出来，并用中文给出一个理由。

 

You can't park your ( )here.

 

[例]家长读jeep 吉普车

 

孩子读You can't park your jeep here. 因为这儿是救护车专用车位！

1 split   

n.劈开，裂片，裂口；adj.分散的；v.分离，分开，劈开

参考例句：

• Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了？
• The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。

2 racing   

n.竞赛，赛马；adj.竞赛用的，赛马用的

参考例句：

• I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
• The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。

3 wagon   

n.四轮马车，手推车，面包车；无盖运货列车

参考例句：

• We have to fork the hay into the wagon.我们得把干草用叉子挑进马车里去。
• The muddy road bemired the wagon.马车陷入了泥泞的道路。

4 convertible   

adj.可改变的，可交换，同意义的；n.有活动摺篷的汽车

参考例句：

• The convertible sofa means that the apartment can sleep four.有了这张折叠沙发，公寓里可以睡下4个人。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了。