北师大初中英语八年级上册 Expansion4-1（MP3+LRC）

[00:00.66]UNIT 4

[00:05.94]Expansion 4

[00:10.93]Exercise 2

[00:14.19]Detective stories are very popular

[00:16.90]in many English-speaking countries.

[00:19.72]In detective stories,

[00:21.71]the hero of the story is a detective

[00:24.88]or a police officer who investigates a crime-

[00:29.33]usually about someone who has been killed.

[00:32.75]The detective asks lots of questions,

[00:36.26]looks for evidence,

[00:37.70]and in the end finds the person

[00:40.23]who did the crime.

[00:42.22]People enjoy reading detective stories and

[00:45.67]trying to work out who did the crime.

[00:48.96]One very of famous writer of detective stories

[00:52.61]was Agatha Christie.

[00:54.46]She was born in England in 1891.

[00:58.88]Many of her stories are about a funny detective

[01:02.41]called Hercule Poirot.

[01:04.76]In some other stories,

[01:06.50]the detective is a kind old lady

[01:09.34]called Miss Marple.

[01:12.27]Christie wrote many detective stories.

[01:14.54]Two very famous ones are

[01:17.18]The Murder of Roger Ackroyd(1926)

[01:21.82]and Death on the Nile(1939).

[01:26.13]Agatha Christie died in 1976.

[01:29.99]Another well-known detective is Philip Marlowe

[01:34.41]He is the hero of stories such as The Big Sleep

[01:39.60](1939) by the American writer Raymond Chandler.

[01:44.69]He was born in Chicago in 1888

[01:48.08]and he died in 1959.

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