How I learned to read and trade stocks in prison(1)（每日一篇・聆聽）

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更新於 2025/04/01發佈於 2025/04/01閱讀時間約 6 分鐘

日期：2025.4.1

文章級別：聆聽

節錄自：TED Talk - How I learned to read, and trade stocks, in prison - Curtis "Wall Street" Carroll

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今天挑選的TED Talk我很喜歡～很直白的語言，真摯而又充滿熱誠！他沒有因為自己的出身放棄自己，反而自救也幫助很多像他一樣的人，大家一齊來聽聽～

指引：先按以上的連結指定的錄音內容，今天我們會聆聽1分16秒至3分08秒，你也可以提早開始聽聽，熱身一下～做聆聽練習的時候，不要開字幕，邊看下面的文字，一邊在紙上寫上答案，看看內容播完後自己答對了多少題。有需要的話可以調慢錄音的語速或多聽幾次～

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The big homey told me this: money rules the (1) _______ and everything in it. And in these streets, money is king. And if you follow the money, it'll lead you to the (2) ___________ or the good guy. Soon after, I committed my first crime, and it was the first time that I was told that I had (3) _______ and felt like somebody believed in me.

Nobody ever told me that I could be a lawyer, doctor, or engineer. I mean, how was I supposed to do that? I couldn't read, write, or spell. I was (4) _______. So I always thought (5) _______ was my way to go. And then one day I was talking to somebody, and he was telling me about this robbery that we could do. And we did it.

The reality was that I was growing up in the strongest financial nation in the world, the United States of America, while I watched my mother stand in line at a blood bank to sell her blood for (6) __________ just to try to feed her kids. She still has the needle marks on her arms today to show for that.

So I never cared about my (7) _______. They didn't care about my life. Everybody there was doing what they were doing to take what they wanted, the (8) ___________, the robbers, the blood bank. Everybody was taking blood money. So I got mine by any means necessary. I got mine. Financial literacy really did rule the (9) _______, and I was a child slave to it following the (10) __________.

At 17 years old, I was arrested for robbery and (11) _______ and I soon learned that finances in prison rule more than they did on the streets, so I wanted in. One day, I rushed to grab the (12) _____________ of the newspaper so my cellie could read it to me, and I accidentally picked up the business section. And this old man said, "Hey youngster, you pick (13) _______?" And I said, "What's that?" He said, "That's the place where white folks keep all their money."

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