北师大初中英语八年级上--Expansion4-1

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[00:00.66]UNIT 4
[00:05.94]Expansion 4
[00:10.93]Exercise 2
[00:14.19]Detective stories are very popular
[00:16.90]in many English-speaking countries.
[00:19.72]In detective stories,
[00:21.71]the hero of the story is a detective
[00:24.88]or a police officer who investigates¹ a crime²-
[00:29.33]usually about someone who has been killed.
[00:32.75]The detective asks lots of questions,
[00:36.26]looks for evidence³,
[00:37.70]and in the end finds the person
[00:40.23]who did the crime.
[00:42.22]People enjoy reading detective stories and
[00:45.67]trying to work out who did the crime.
[00:48.96]One very of famous writer of detective stories
[00:52.61]was Agatha Christie.
[00:54.46]She was born in England in 1891.
[00:58.88]Many of her stories are about a funny detective
[01:02.41]called Hercule Poirot.
[01:04.76]In some other stories,
[01:06.50]the detective is a kind old lady
[01:09.34]called Miss Marple.
[01:12.27]Christie wrote many detective stories.
[01:14.54]Two very famous ones are
[01:17.18]The Murder of Roger Ackroyd(1926)
[01:21.82]and Death on the Nile(1939).
[01:26.13]Agatha Christie died in 1976.
[01:29.99]Another well-known detective is Philip Marlowe
[01:34.41]He is the hero of stories such as The Big Sleep
[01:39.60](1939) by the American writer Raymond Chandler.
[01:44.69]He was born in Chicago in 1888
[01:48.08]and he died in 1959.
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