大学英语精读第三版第四册课文及课文翻译

大学英语精读第三版第四册课 文及课文翻译．

大学英语精读第三版第四册课文及课文翻译

Unit 1 Text

Two college-age boys, unaware that making money usually involves hard work, are tempted by an advertisement that promises them an easy way to earn a lot of money. The boys soon learn that if something seems to good to

be true, it probably is.

BIG BUCKS THE EASY WAY John G. Hubbell

You ought to look into this, I suggested to our two college-age sons. It might be a way to

avoid the indignity of having to ask for money

all the time. I handed them some magazines in

a plastic bag someone bad hung on our

doorknob. A message printed on the bag offered

leisurely, lucrative work (Big Bucks the Easy

Way!) of delivering more such bags. I don't mind the indignity, the

older one answered.

I can live with it, his brother agreed.

But it pains me, I said，find that you both have been panhandling so that it no

longer embarrasses you.

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The boys said they would look into the

magazine-delivery thing. Pleased, I left town on a business trip. By midnight I was comfortably

settled in a hotel room far from home. The

phone rang. It was my wife. She wanted to know

how my day had gone. Great! I enthused. How was your day?

I inquired. Super! She snapped. Just super! And

it's only getting started. Another truck just pulled up out front. Another truck? The third one this evening. The