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《每日邮报》说找到了隐居十七年的 Meg White，发了十几张跟拍照片。照片上的人不是她。
Daily Mail Mistakes Stranger for Meg White
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Daily Mail Mistakes Stranger for Meg White. HSK 2 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 2 Chinese listening episode that runs about 2 minutes. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 7 key vocabulary words such as 报纸、认识、外面 and walks through 2 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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English transcript reference
There was once a drummer called Meg White, and she was in a very famous band.
That band — a lot of people have heard it.
Later the band ended, and she stopped appearing.
For seventeen years, nobody saw her out in public.
On the sixth of August, a British newspaper published a report.
The report said: we have found her.
Below it were more than ten photos, all taken covertly.
The newspaper said: this is the first time she has been photographed in seventeen years.
But here there is a problem.
The reporter who took the photos walked up and asked her.
He asked: are you Meg White?
That person laughed, and said: you have got the wrong person, I am not her.
She said that sentence, and the newspaper still ran the photos.
A few days later, someone who knows Meg saw the photos.
She said: the person in them is not Meg, it is a friend of Meg’s.
So the newspaper took the article and the photos off the internet — with no correction and no apology.
So the situation now is this:
A person who did not want to be seen still has not been seen.
And a person with nothing to do with any of it was followed for days, photographed, and sent to the whole world.
Think about it:
If someone mistook you for another person and published your photo, what would you do?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇The British paper that ran the photographs.
Her only connection to the story is that she 认识 Meg.
没有人在外面看见过她 — nobody saw her out in public.
The closing question: 你怎么办？
偷偷拍的照片 — covertly taken photographs.
The 记者 asked her, was told he was wrong, and published anyway.
没有更正，也没有道歉 — no correction and no apology.
* beyond level超纲词
What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法被 + verb
The passive marker: the subject has something done to it.
她第一次被拍到。 — She was photographed for the first time.
一个不想被人看见的人 — a person who does not want to be seen
还是 + verb
Does it anyway, despite what came before.
报纸还是把照片发了出来。 — The newspaper published the photos anyway.
Proper nouns
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