《导学案》2015版高中英语(人教版必修3)教师用书unit3period1readingcomprehension讲义.docVIP

你看过电影《百万英镑》吗?英国银行发行了两张百万英镑的支票有何用意,拥有者会如何处置,他又会碰到什么趣事?本文会给你答案,赶紧来看吧。 About the ￡1, 000,000 Bank Note The Bank of England once issued two notes of a million pounds, to be used for a special purpose connected with some public trade with a foreign country. For some reason or other only one of these had been used and canceled; the other still lay in the Bank. Well, the brothers, chatting along, happened to get to wonder what might be the fate of a perfectly honest and intelligent stranger who should be turned homeless in London without a friend, and with no money but that million-pound bank note, and no way to account for his being in possession of it. Brother A said he would starve to death. Brother B said he wouldn??t. Brother A said he couldn??t offer it at a bank or anywhere else, because he would be arrested on the spot. So they went on quarreling till Brother B said he would bet twenty thousand pounds that the man would live thirty days. They thought me to be the right person, a poor, honest and intelligent stranger. They handed me an envelope that contained the ￡1,000,000 bank note. I, dressed in rags, with nothing but a bank note, got into a restaurant. I took the bank note to pay for the bill and asked for changes. The boss who looked down upon me at first changed his attitude completely. He told me that I could have anything I wanted, any time I chose, and let the account run as long as I pleased. They all treated me as an honored guest. Then I got into a tailor??s shop, the same thing happened. I bought whatever I wanted, and asked for change. I owned the respect and fell in love with a girl, Portia. Everything went well, because I had a ￡1,000,000 bank note on me. After a month, Brothers returned, to my surprise, one of them was Portia??s father. He took that bill back to the Bank of England and cashed it, then the Bank canceled it and made him a present of it, and he gave it to us at our wedding. Answer the following questions according to the passage. 1.