Two months ago Anita saw an advertisement for a computer dating
organization. She decided to try and find a boyfriend by computer. She filled
in the organization’s questionnaire
and paid a $ 5 fee. Two weeks later
she received a phone-call from her first date.
Anita told me what happened. “I’m a very shy person. I wrote in the questionnaire that I wanted somebody
very different from me. Somebody who finds conversation easy. Somebody who is
an extrovert.”
I met this man sent by the organization in
a restaurant the following day. It was terrible. He was so shy he didn’t talk to me all evening. Every time he looked at me,
he blushed.”
The second man sent to her was worse than the first. Anita is quiet.
She likes films, play, reading, listening to classical music. She does not
smoke or drink. He was a tall, chain-smoking
sports fanatic who spent all his spare time in pubs.
“He told me that he hated all things I
love. It’s completely crazy.” Anita
said.
She has now told the organization not to
send any more “Computer boy friends”.
Vocabulary:
l advertisement[u@gjRtfAalmQnf](n.)廣告,宣傳
l questionnaire[uhrUkfXQntUq](n.)問卷;(意見)調查表
l fee[i`](n.)酬金,服務費;費用;賞金,小帳
l shy[XAa](a.)怕羞的,羞怯的,靦腆的
l extrovert[tUhkfqcjPf](n.)個性外向的人
l blush[epSX][blushed-blushed-blushing](v.)臉紅;變成紅色
l worse(a.)(bad的比較級)更壞的,更差的,更惡化的;(ill的比較級)(病情)更重的
l chain-smoke[chain-smoked,chain-smoked,chain-smoking][tfXTnukmch](vi.)連續不斷地抽香煙
l fanatic[iQtn@fah](a.)狂熱的;入迷的(n.)狂熱者;盲信者
l spare[kdUq](a.)備用的;多餘的,剩下的;空閒的
l completely[hQmtdp`fpa](ad.)完整地;完全地;徹底地
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