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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 split of each hour.

Benjamin: That’s expensive.

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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。

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.

生词小结

community n. 社区

bet vi. 打赌

contrary n. 反面，相反

rent vt. 出租

rate n. 比率

cost vt. 花费

split n. 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

racing car 赛车

minibus 面包车

saloon 轿车

station wagon 旅行车

wrecker 清障车

convertible 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!