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Who Wants to be a Millionaire

What a jackpot(1) and here’s how it sounded on ABC’s Who Wants to Be a Millionaire as Kevin Olmstead, a forty-two year-old environmental engineer, from Ann Arbor of Michigan was given this question.

Host: Who is credited with inventing the first mass-produced helicopter?

Olmstead: I know this. It was the Sikorsky helicopter. My final answer.

Host: Just won two million.

That’s $2,180,000, the richest prize ever awarded by an American game show. I told Olmstead in a later interview, it must have been pretty mind-boggling.

Olmstead: It is for me, yes, quite mind-boggling, like winning the lottery(2) , I suppose.
Olmstead, a former Jeopardy【美國(guó)一游戲節(jié)目名】 champion is a co-founder(3) of a University of Michigan quiz bowl group.

Olmstead: I’ve always been a sponge(4) for this sort of material; I hope that I won’t change in terms of personality. Maybe pick up a few more tabs【賬單；費(fèi)用】, maybe, I don’t know.

By the way, Olmstead helped coach millionaires last million dollar winner and youngest 24-year-old David Goodman, and like Olmstead also a University of Michigan graduate.

I’m a Bill Deal.


聽(tīng)音瓶頸詞匯

1. jackpot[]n.頭獎(jiǎng)；累積獎(jiǎng)金
2. lottery [] n. 彩票
3. co-founder [] n. 共同創(chuàng)辦人
4. sponge[]n.海綿；知識(shí)豐富的人

聽(tīng)音高級(jí)短語(yǔ)

mass-produced 大批量生產(chǎn)的
mind-boggling 難以置信的
in terms of 在…方面

聽(tīng)音超級(jí)句型

…is credited with…
…被譽(yù)為…

I’ve always been a sponge for …
我總是比較擅長(zhǎng)/精通記憶…