新概念3第26-36课挖空.ppt

Lesson 26:Wanted: a large biscuit tin????? 征购大饼干筒 ??? No one can a____ being i________ by a____________. Much as we may p_____ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to choose the things we want, for?advertising?e_____ a s_____ i_______ on us. In their e______ to p________us to buy this or that product, advertisers have made a close study of human nature and have c________ all our little w__________.??? Advertisers d________ years ago that all of us love to get something for nothing. An advertisement which begins with the m_____word FREE can r____ go wrong. These days, advertisers not only offer free s_______, but free cars, free houses, and free trips round the world as well. They d______ hundreds of c____________which will e_____ us to win huge sums of money. Radio and television have made it possible for advertisers to c_______ the attention of millions of people in this way. ??? During a radio programme, a company of biscuit m___________ once asked listeners to bake biscuits and send them to their factory. They o_____ to pay $10 a pound for the biggest biscuit baked by a listener. The r______ to this c________ was t_________. Before long, biscuits of all s_______ and sizes began arriving at the factory. One lady brought in a biscuit on a wheelbarrow. It w______nearly 500 pounds. A little later, a man came along with a biscuit which o______ 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 v______ other i_________. It was so heavy that a crane had to be used to r_____ it from the lorry. The manufacturers had to pay more money than they had a___________, or they bought the bi