日期:2025.4.2
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*****
今天我們還是聽昨日挑選的TED Talk~不過是不同的時間段,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4分02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哦~
4"02
But little did I know I was receiving the greatest gifts I had ever dreamed of: self-worth, knowledge, (1) ________. I was so excited to be reading that I read everything I could get my hands on: candy wrappers, (2) ________, street signs, everything. I was just reading stuff! Just reading stuff.
I was so excited to know how to read and know how to spell. The homey came up, said, "Man, what you eating?" I said, "C-A-N-D-Y, candy." He said, "Let me get some." I said, "N-O. No." It was (3) ________. I mean, I can actually now for the first time in my life read. The feeling that I got from it was (4) ________. And then at 22, feeling myself, feeling (5) ________, I remembered what the OG told me. So I picked up the business section of the newspaper. I wanted to find these rich (6) ________.
So I looked for that glimpse. As I furthered my career in teaching others how to financially manage money and (7) ________, I soon learned that I had to take responsibility for my own actions. True, I grew up in a very complex environment, but I (8) ________ to commit crimes, and I had to own up to that. I had to take responsibility for that, and I did. I was building a (9) ________ that could teach incarcerated men how to manage money through prison employments. Properly managing our lifestyle would provide (10) ________ that we can use to manage money when we reenter society, like the majority of people did who didn't commit crimes.
Then I discovered that according to MarketWatch, over 60 percent of the American population has under 1,000 dollars in (11) ________. Sports Illustrated said that over 60 percent of NBA players and NFL players go broke. (12) ________ of marital problems derive from financial issues. What the h***? You mean to tell me that people worked their whole lives, buying cars, clothes, homes, and material stuff but were living (13) ________? How in the world were members of society going to help incarcerated individuals back into society if they couldn't manage their own stuff? We are screwed. I needed a better plan. This is not going to work out too well.
6"28
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答案
- discipline
- clothing logos
- awesome
- amazing
- confident
- white folks
- invest
- chose
- curriculum
- transferable tools
- savings
- 40 percent
- check to check
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