考多益時，總聽到許多考生走出考場的第一個回應
就是閱讀寫不完。其實，寫不完的原因可以用跑馬拉松解釋
若你平常只跑4公里，但突然這週末要你去參加台北馬拉松
你在過程中，一定會有"跑不完、累得半死的想法"
回過頭來，你的閱讀能力，必須從平常就加強，
就算是把下面這篇 New York Times的新聞報導分成三天份也好
因此，Chen老師將這篇文章分為三份
並在最下面提出問題，請盡量用句子回答
讓自己"使用"英文
你需要的，是練習量。下面，我們來看看這篇難易適中的新聞報導
Source (原文連結)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Most mornings last year, Terrance Wise left home before his three daughters woke up, to head to his $9.30-an-hour job at Burger King.And after working his second job of the day, as a $7.47-an-hour cook for Pizza Hut, he returned home 16 hours later, around 11 p.m., after his daughters had gone to sleep.“The kids started saying, ‘Daddy, we never get to see you,’ ” said Mr. Wise, 35.The situation worsened when Burger King cut back his hours and his fiancée was sidelined from work with a back injury. Despite his working two jobs, he and his family were evicted from their apartment, leaving them homeless for three months.
His financial struggles while working in fast-food jobs since age 16 help to explain — not surprisingly to many friends and colleagues — why he has emerged as the leading voice of a nationwide movement of fast-food workers clamoring for a higher wage. Two years after 200 fast-food workers walked out in a one-day strike in New York, the walkouts have spread across the country and become the largest labor protests in the nation in years.
Mr. Wise after a day at work at Burger King, with two of his daughters and a family friend.CreditSteve Hebert for The New York Times
On Thursday, the Fight for 15 campaign staged another wave of one-day strikes, this time in more than 150 cities, with home care aides and convenience store workers joining the protests in several of them. Mr. Wise was at the forefront in Kansas City, demonstrating outside McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s restaurants.
“I have never seen a movement like this,” said Mr. Wise, in his crisp tenor voice. “We’ve seen how the civil rights movement won civil rights and we’ve seen how women won the right to vote. Those things weren’t given to us. People faced hoses and beatings.
“Some people even died. We have to bring the same pressure for today’s times and make the companies listen to us. We have to do whatever it takes to win.”
Often speaking with the cadence of a preacher, Mr. Wise has inspired friends and co-workers. Some say his appearances on NPR or MSNBC remind them of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He traces his speaking style to a time when, as a precocious young golfer in Columbia, S.C., he was invited into the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. “I was really committed at that age to the Bible and learning the ministry,” Mr. Wise said. “People called me ‘Bible Boy.’ ” He spent his childhood in public housing, with his mother earning so little as a Hardee’s restaurant cashier that she sometimes could not pay the electricity bill. “We never owned a house; we never owned a car. We had to take our clothes to the laundry in a shopping cart,” Mr. Wise said. “It was really a bad neighborhood — they said the way out was to play sports or sell drugs.”
While he played golf and basketball and was an honors track student who won prizes for public speaking, his two brothers went to prison for selling drugs. Even then, Mr. Wise held two jobs — at KFC and Wendy’s — during high school. He wound up dropping out because he couldn’t juggle school with a work schedule that often ended at 2 a.m.
<單字及片語>
這邊要建議同學們，找出這些單字的同義字
用同義字背同義字，效果絕對比你用英漢背法快上許多
因為，人是聯想性的動物，用強迫你背誦的方式
一定馬上忘記
cut back = decrease (減少)
sidelined = suspend (暫停/留職停薪)
evicted = kick out (逐出)
emerged = appear (出現/成為)
clamoring = noisy (噪音，引申為叫囂)
strike = walk out (罷工)
home care aides = (家庭幫傭)
tenor = (男高音)
civil = domestic/internal (國內的/民有的)
cadence = rhythm (韻律)
preacher = pastor/minister (牧師)
trace = track (追朔)
precocious =(早熟)
commit to = (對...承諾/熱衷於...)
ministry = (牧道)
electricity = (電力/電能)
drug = medicine (drug在此解釋為毒品)
* medicine不可翻成毒品，但drug也可是藥品
* pharmacy store = drug store = 藥房
honor track student = (模範生)
juggle = manage
* 原本是小丑表演的丟球戲法，這邊引申為一心多用
<藍色粗體>
英文文章中，很常出現代名詞(eg. he/they/them/her)
同學們要試著去找到這些代名詞所代表的名詞為誰
這樣才算是真正得了解文章想表達的內涵
<討論題目>
1. Have you ever work for a job that, in your opinion, is under paid?
2. If you were Mr. Wise, what would you do to gain more public support?
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