新视野大学英语视听说教程第三册 Unit 6 Task3: Why buy lottery tickets?
Charles: Did you hear? Next week’s lottery will be 28 million dollars! You got your ticket yet?
Joan: I didn’t buy lottery tickets, and I don’t gamble on other ways, either. Lottery tickets ate just another way of taxing the poor.
Charles: What do you mean by that?
Joan: Many of the big spenders on lottery tickets ate poor. They are spending money they can’t afford to spend.
Charles: I just buy lottery tickets for fun. You know…the first prize is a huge amount, and if would be exciting.
Joan: But you don’t need the money to enjoy life, so for you it’s a game. But when the poor buy lottery tickets, it is often out of desperation.
Charles: You must be right. Casinos are opening everywhere, and many people go ongambling holiday—you can even take a gambling cruise.
Joan: Imagine being on an ocean cruise and spending all your time indoors bent over a card table or a roulette wheel.
Charles: Maybe there should be some programs to help people overcome their gamblingaddictions something similar to Alcoholics Anonymous.
Joan: There’s indeed an online program that can help. But nobody can force gamblers to join it. They must first want to be cured themselves.
For Reference
1. She thinks many (of the) big spenders on lottery are poor, spending money they can’t afford to spend.
2. He just buys lottery tickets foe fun. He thinks if he won a huge amount, it would be exciting.
3. They buy lottery tickets out of desperation. And the thrill of a win, of something for nothing, isaddictive.
4. Casinos are opening everywhere, many people go on gambling holidays, and one can even take a gambling cruise.
5. It will be helpful to habitual gamblers only when they want to be cured themselves.
