新概念第二册课文翻译及学习笔记【Lesson76、77、78】

新概念第二册课文翻译及学习笔记【

Lesson76

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【课文】

First listen and then answer the question.

听录音，然后回答以下问题。

What was the joke?

'To end our special news bulletin,' said the voice of the

television announcer, 'we're going over to the macaroni

fields of Calabria. Macaroni has been grown in this area for

over six hundred years. Two of the leading growers, Giuseppe

Moldova and Riccardo Brabante, tell me that they have been

expecting a splendid crop this year and harvesting has begun

earlier than usual. Here you can see two workers who, between

them, have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden

brown macaroni stalks. The whole village has been working day

and night gathering and threshing this year's crop before the

September rains. On the right, you can see Mrs. Brabante

herself. She has been helping her husband for thirty years

now. Mrs. Brabante is talking to the manager of the local

factory where the crop is processed. This last scene shows

you what will happen at the end of the harvest

：

the famous

Calabrian macaroni-eating competition! Signor Fratelli, the

present champion, has won it every year since 1991. And that

ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April lst.

We're now going back to the studio.'

【课文翻译】