长喜英语六级常考时文朗诵100篇 38,000 Grasshoppers
1.What is the award of the contest? ... of Elton John's concert.
2.According to the rule, who would be qualified to get the award? The person who ...within two days.
3.Who helped Brandy to win the contest? Her roommate and some ...
A concert by pop star Elton John had music fans hopping in Canada’s farming heartland as they braved a plague of grasshoppers in an unusual quest to win a pair of tickets. Brandy Elliott won a radio contest for the prized tickets by capturing 38,000 grasshoppers. She said she was grossed out and every night she went to bed all she could dream about was grasshoppers. Brandy Elliott was one of more than 100 Saskatchewan residents to respond to the contest launched by a popular Regina radio show. The rules were simple：whoever collected the most grasshoppers over a two-day period, would win the two highly coveted tickets to see Elton John at a sold-out concert. “When we first thought of this contest we thought, oh you know, we might get a few hundred, maybe even a thousand grasshoppers from people. She (Brandy) showed up with 38,000 grasshoppers which blew us away,” said Buzz Elliot, a morning show host on Z99, the station that launched the bug-gathering gimmick. Brandy rigged up 1.5 meter nets made out of window bug-screens and plastic tubing. She then recruited her roommate and some young nephews and nieces to help with the harvest. Saskatchewan, a province known for its vast fields of wheat, also has a reputation for vast, cyclical grasshopper invasions.
