初中英语新目标八年级下讲解版20

[12:51.84]Seliing Snoopy dolls wasn't good for children.
[12:56.82]出售史努比洋娃娃对儿童没有好处。
[13:01.79]They weren't thinking about their students.
[13:05.89]他们没有考虑他们的学生。
[13:10.00]Trouble started when they ran out of dolls.
[13:19.66]当洋娃娃卖完的时候麻烦就开始了。
[13:29.33]McDonals's wasn't allowed to sell dolls.
[13:38.34]麦当劳店不允许买洋娃娃。
[13:47.35]Other cities had the same problem.
[13:57.41]其他城市存在同样的问题。
[14:07.46]3 Match the words and expressions with their meanings.
[14:10.72]把单词和短语与其解释用线连起来，
[14:13.97]Then make sentences with the words and expressions.
[14:15.47]然后用这些单词和短语造句子。（见教科书）
[14:16.97]greedy
[14:18.48]贪婪
[14:19.98]c. taking too much
[14:21.00]拿得太多
[14:22.01]value meal
[14:23.02]优惠餐
[14:24.03]f. food for a good price
[14:25.25]优惠价的食物
[14:26.48]resell
[14:27.63]转卖
[14:28.78]a. sell again after buying something
[14:30.24]买进某物再卖出去
[14:31.71]was smashed
[14:32.57]被打碎
[14:33.43]e. broken
[14:34.23]破碎
[14:35.02]were harming
[14:35.89]伤害
[14:36.75]b. not helping
[14:37.61]没有帮助的
[14:38.47]pay a big fine
[14:39.53]付高额罚金
[14:40.59]d. pay money when you do something wrong
[14:42.46]做错事的时候所交的钱
[14:44.32]4 Read the article and fine the answers to these questions.
[14:48.53]读这篇文章，找出问题的答案。
[14:52.73]1. Before the trouble started,
[14:54.15]在麻烦到来之前，
[14:55.56]what did parents in Guangzhou want to do for their children?
[15:01.37]广州的父母想给他们的孩子做点什么？
[15:07.18]2. How did McDonald's customers make money?
[15:14.60]麦当劳店的消费者怎样挣钱？
[15:22.02]3. How did children try to make their parents buy the dolls?
[15:27.99]小孩怎样想法让他们的父母买洋娃娃？
[15:33.96]4. What did people in Singapore do to get Hello Kitty dolls?
[15:41.96]在新加坡人们采取什么办法得到Hello Kitty玩具系列？
[15:49.97]5. Why is the Guangzhou government unhappy with McDonald's?
[16:34.34]广州市政府为什么对麦当劳店不满意？
[17:18.71]A rush for dolls
[17:20.48]It started just as a chance for parents in Guangzhou
[17:26.20]to take their children to McDonald's and buy a Snoopy doll,
[17:31.40]the popular dog from the Peanuts cartoon.
[17:34.96]But it turned bad when very excited children,
[17:39.55]their parents, and greedy sellers rushed to get the dolls.
[17:44.80]McDonald's sold the Snoopy dolls,
[17:47.49]twice a week for 10 yuan each with a value meal.
[17:52.30]Trouble started when there were no more dolls and the people waiting got angry.
[17:59.09]Fights even happened after some people bought many Snoopies
[18:04.92]so they could resell them.
[18:06.88]One boy sold Snoopies for 50 yuan each.
[18:12.47]At McDonald's, the front window was smashed.
[18:17.95]Parents in Guangzhou called to complain.
[18:23.05]They thought the dolls were harming their children's studies.
[18:27.85]Students wanted the dolls badly,
[18:31.59]they weren't thinking about their studies.
[18:34.59]It was also exam time.
[18:37.78]Some kids said if they did not get all six dolls,
[18:43.16]they would not continue studying.
[18:45.59]And the dolls weren't cheap-many children didn't have money to buy them,
[18:53.61]and only a few could get all six of them.
[18:57.42]In two months, McDonald's sold 2,331,400 dolls making 2.3 million yuan.
[19:12.13]The Guangzhou government wanted McDonald's to pay a big fine.
[19:17.96]The city leader said McDonald's could only sell food and drinks
[19:22.97]and was not allowed to sell dolls.
[19:25.58]The selling of Snoopy dolls harmed
[19:29.68]"the physical and mental health of children," the city leader said.
[19:35.12]At McDonald's in other parts of Asia, similar things happened.
[19:41.94]In Singapore, people bought a lot of meals just for the Hello Kitty dolls.
[19:48.83]They threw away the hamburgers and drinks and kept the dolls.
[19:54.47]Teachers, parents,
[19:57.09]and leaders argued about whether McDonald's should be allowed to sell the dolls.
[20:04.53]5 Imagine you and your partner work for McDonald's.
[20:08.08]设想你和你的伙伴在麦当劳店工作，
[20:11.64]Write an answer letter to the angry parents.