郭岱宗(英文系副教授)提供
一、實用字彙
1.拒絕 reject,decline
2.向... 投降 surrender to
3.不自覺地 without knowing it
4.大眾傳媒 mass media
5.虛榮心 vanity
6.購買 purchase
7.洗腦 brainwash
8.正在被洗腦 be being brainwashed
9.意志力 willpower
二、請填入適當英文,訂正之後大聲朗讀至少3遍
我們可以輕易地拒絕路上的推銷員,但是我們卻時常在不自覺中,向最強的推銷員投降,這個推銷員就是「媒體」以及「虛榮心」。
We may_________ ______ salespeople who approach us on the street, but we often ________ without _____________ it ______________ the ultimate.
salesmen:______________and__________.
下次,當我們因為受到收音機、報紙、雜誌、網路、電視廣告的影響,而要購物時,想一想:我是不是又被洗腦了?
The _____________time you think _______________making a______________based on a ______________ ,
______________ , _________________ ,or TV __________________think to youself, "Am I___ ___
again ?"
堅強的靈魂擁有意志力,軟弱的靈魂則只有慾望
Strong ______________ have ________________, and weak _______________only _______________.
三、答案
1.easily reject, surrender, knowing, to, mass media, vanity
2.next, about, purchase, radio, newspaper,
magazine, Internet, advertisement, being brainwashed
3.souls,willpower,ones,desire
(第二句的”have”不必重複,可刪去)