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中級美國英語教程 Index: Lesson 92 Lesson 93 Lesson 94 Lesson 95 Lesson 96 Lesson 97 Lesson 98 Lesson 99 Lesson 100 Lesson 101 Lesson 102 Lesson 103 Lesson 104 Lesson 105 Lesson 106 Lesson 107 Lesson 92 Only the good die young Dialog: Diana bumps into her friend, Steve (D=Diana; S=Steve) D: Hi, Steve! It’s awful hot today, isn’t it? S: You can say that again! D: Let’s go kayaking later. S: Are you kidding? I can’t even swim. D: So what? You’ll be safe with a life jacket and a helmet on. S: What if the kayak capsizes? D: I’ll teach you to “Eskimo roll. ” S: What’s that? D: Well, it’s a special technique we use to get the kayak upright when it overturns. S: I don’t know … it sounds pretty dangerous. D: Come on. Don’t worry. Only the good die young. S: What do you mean by that? D: Just kidding. Let’s go, OK? S: OK. Anyway, if only the good die young, we’ll both probably live to be a hundred. Lesson 93 One good turn deserves another Reading One good turn deserver another. That’s the lesson five store clerks learned recently. Every day a strange old man came to their supermarket to buy groceries. “Once he came in wearing only one shoe,” recalled one of the clerks. And although he grumbled a lot and they often had to stand there listening to him, he was a nice old man. The clerks befriended him and even helped him carry his groceries. One day when he fell ill with cancer, they even visited him in the hospital. The old man turned out to be a retired doctor. And, of course, when he died, he didn’t die a pauper. He left US$70,000 in his will to thank them for their kindness. Lesson 94 As poor as a church mouse Dialog Anna and Eric are talking about the previous lesson. (E=Eric; A=Anna) E: Wow! Those store clerks really got lucky. A: You can say that again. Some people are born lucky. E: There must be thousands of old men just like that doctor, I bet. A: That’s probably true. And they must be wanting to draw up a w