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新概念英语第三册第26课:Wanted a large biscuit tin

Lesson 26 Wanted: a large biscuit tin征购大饼干筒 Listen to the tape then

answer the question below.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

Listen who the prize for biggest biscuit?

No one can avoid being influenced by advertisements. Much as we may pride

ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want,

for advertising exerts a subtle influence on us. In their efforts to persuade us to

buy this or that product, advertisers have made a close study of human nature and

have classified all our little weaknesses.

Advertisers discovered years ago that all of us love to get something for

nothing. An advertisement which begins with the magic word FREE can rarely go

wrong. These days, advertisers not only offer free samples, but free cars, free

houses, and free trips round the world as well. They devise hundreds of

competitions which will enable us to win huge sums of money. Radio and television

have made it possible for advertisers to capture the attention of millions of people

in this way.

During a radio programme, a company of biscuit manufacturers once asked

listeners to bake biscuits and send them to their factory. They offered to pay $10 a

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pound for the biggest biscuit baked by a listener. The response to this competition

was tremendous. Before long, biscuits of all shapes and sizes began arriving at the

factory. One lady brought in a biscuit on a wheelbarrow. It weighed nearly 500

pounds. A little later, a man came along with a biscuit which occupied the whole

boot of his car. All the biscuits that were sent were carefully weighed. The largest

was 713 pounds. It seemed certain that this would win the prize. But just before

the competition closed, a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly colossal biscuit

which weighed 2,400 pounds. It had been baked by a college student who had

used over 1,000 pounds of flour, 800 pounds of sugar, 200 pounds of fat, and 400

pounds of various other ingredients. It was so heavy that a crane had to be used

to remove it from the lorry. The manufacturers had to pay more money than they

had anticipated, or they bought the biscuit from the student for $24,000.

参考译文

没有人能避免受广告的影响。尽管我们可以自夸自己的鉴赏力如何敏锐，但我们已经

无法独立自主地选购自己所需的东西了。这是因为广告在我们身上施加着一种潜 移默化的

影响。做广告的人在力图劝说我们买下这种产品或那种产品之前，已经仔细地研究了人的

本性，并把人的弱点进行了分类。

做广告的人们多年前就发现我们大家都喜欢免费得到东西。凡是用“免费”这个神奇

的词开头的广告很少会失败的。目前，做广告的人不仅提供免费样品，而且还提 供免费汽

车，免费住房，免费周游世界。他们设计数以百计的竞赛，竞赛中有人可赢得巨额奖金。

电台、电视使做广告的人可以用这种手段吸引成百万人的注意力。

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有一次，在电台播放的节目里，一个生产饼干的公司请听众烘制饼干送到他们的工厂

去。他们愿意以每磅10美元的价钱买下由听众烘制的最大的饼干。这次竞赛在 听众中引

起极其热烈的反响。不久，形状各异，大小不一的饼干陆续送到工厂。一位女士用手推车

运来一个饼干，重达500磅左右。相隔不一会儿，一个男子也带 来一个大饼干，那个饼干

把汽车的行李箱挤得满满的。凡送来的饼干都仔细地称量。最重的一个达713磅，看来这

个饼干获奖无疑了。但就在竞赛截止时间将到之 际，一辆卡车驶进了工厂，运来了一个特

大无比、重达2,400磅的饼干。它是由一个大学生烘制的，用去1,000多磅的面粉、800

磅食糖、200磅动物 脂肪及400磅其他各种原料。饼干份量太重了，用了一台起重机才

把它从卡车上卸下。饼干公司不得不付出比他们预计多得多的钱，因为为买下那学生烘制

的饼干 他们支付了24,000美元。

New words and expressions 生词和短语

influence

v. 影响

pride

v. 骄傲

taste

n. 鉴赏力

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exert

v. 施加

subtle

aj. 微妙的，难以捉摸的

advertiser

n. 做广告的人

classify

v. 分类

magic

adj. 有奇妙作用

sample

n. 样品

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v. 设计，想出

capture

v. 吸引，赢得

manufacturer

n. 生产厂家，制造商

wheelbarrow

n. 独轮手推车

boot

n. （汽车尾部的）行李箱

ingredient

n. 配料

crane

n. 起重机

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anticipate

v. 预期，预料

Notes on the text课文注释

1 No one can avoid being influenced by advertisements.

没有人能避免受广告的影响。

avoid一词需接动名词作宾语，being influenced是动名词一般式的被动形式

2 Much as we may ，尽管我们可以自夸……，虽然我们可以为...而

感到自豪。

这是一个让步状语从句，连词much as可以译成"虽然很..."

3 get something for nothing，免费得到。

4 go wrong，出差错，出毛病。

5 the response to this competition，对这一竞赛的反响。

Lesson 26 课后练习和答案Exercises and Answer

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