爸爸和丹尼爾上了車，丹尼爾聽見旁邊的兩位乘客在談?wù)撝还镜氖虑?，他們具體在談?wù)撔┦裁茨?？一起來看看吧?/p>

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Man: Hey, do you know the bus company network system crashed?

Woman: I heard about it several days ago!

Man: That is unbelievable!

Daniel: Daddy, can you tell me what they are talking about?

Benjamin: They are talking about the network of the bus company.

Daniel: Why is their network not working?

Benjamin: Because of the IC cards.

Daniel: The IC card?

Benjamin: Yes, Beijing is a big city and there are about 7,000,000 people using IC cards on buses.

Daniel: And?

Benjamin: All the people were checking the balance of their cards on the Internet at the same time, that's why the system crashed.

Daniel: Oh, that is horrible!

聽看學(xué)
男：嗨，你知道公交公司網(wǎng)絡(luò)癱瘓這件事嗎？

女：我?guī)滋烨熬吐犝f了。

男：那太讓人難以置信了！

丹尼爾：爸爸，你能告訴我他們?cè)谡務(wù)摰氖鞘裁磫幔?/p>

本杰明：他們?cè)谡f公交公司網(wǎng)絡(luò)的問題。

丹尼爾：那為什么他們的網(wǎng)絡(luò)不能夠正常運(yùn)行呢？

本杰明：因?yàn)镮C卡的問題。

丹尼爾：IC卡嗎？

本杰明：對(duì)啊，北京是個(gè)大城市，總共有7,000,000人用公交IC卡。

丹尼爾：然后呢？

本杰明：所有的人都去網(wǎng)上查看他們卡里的余額，所以就產(chǎn)生了網(wǎng)絡(luò)問題。

丹尼爾：噢，那太可怕了！

經(jīng)典背誦 Recitation
Daniel: People talk about the network system of the bus company a lot these days. I had no idea why until my father told me that there are lots of people using IC cards on buses, and when they get back home they would check their balance at the same time, then the system crashed, which is a big problem.

生詞小結(jié)
crash n. 崩潰

network n. 網(wǎng)絡(luò)

system n. 系統(tǒng)，體系

unbelievable adj. 令人難以置信的

check vt. 查詢

balance n. 余額

horrible adj. 可怕的

單詞擴(kuò)展 Vocabulary Builder
大城市名稱的單詞

基礎(chǔ)詞匯

New York 紐約

Sydney 悉尼

Toronto 多倫多

Rome 羅馬

Washington 華盛頓

Tokyo 東京

Paris 巴黎

Cairo 開羅

提高詞匯

Moscow 莫斯科

London 倫敦

Venice 威尼斯

Detroit 底特律

Seoul 首爾

Athens 雅典

Los Angeles 洛杉磯

Berlin 柏林

家庭總動(dòng)員 Do it together
兩人一組，一方隨機(jī)大聲讀出上面詞匯的英文和中文，另一方用該詞匯填入下面的句子，大聲朗讀并用中文說出該詞匯所代表的城市的標(biāo)志性建筑或者是事物。

( ) is a big city.

[例] 家長(zhǎng)讀New York 紐約

孩子讀New York is a big city. 紐約的標(biāo)志性事物是自由女神像。