同步拓展阅读：新概念英语第3册第27课
一、往期回顾
【参考答案】
1. The writer means “it’s high time to get our business on social media”.
2. We must make sure that the emails offer the customers something valuable.
3. It can help to ensure our business comes up when people make relevant searches in our area.
4. To create video content that people can actually use.
5. As a school ship.
二、本期内容
【课文主题】
第27课讲的是有关流浪汉（Tramps）的故事，为此我也选择了这篇有关英国流浪汉的文章。
【拓展阅读】
一、文章内容
A tramp is a native English species. These are his distinguishing characteristics: he has no money, he is dressed in rags, he walks about twenty kilometres a day and never sleeps two nights together in the same place. In short, he is a wanderer, living on charity, roaming around on foot day after day for years, crossing England from end to end many times in his wanderings. He has no job, home or family, no possessions in the world apart from the rags covering his poor body; he lives at the expense of the community.
No one knows how many individuals make up the tramp population. Thirty thousand? Fifty thousand? Perhaps a hundred thousand in England and Wales when unemployment is particularly bad.
The tramp does not wander for his own amusement, or because he has inherited the nomadic instincts of his ancestors; he is trying first and foremost to avoid starving to death.
It is not difficult to see why; the tramp is unemployed as a result of the state of the English economy. So, to exist, he must have recourse to public or private charity. To assist him, the authorities have created asiles (workhouses) where the destitute can find food and shelter. These places are about twenty kilometres apart, and no one can stay in any one spike more than once a month. Hence the endless pilgrimages of tramps who, if they want to eat and sleep with a roof over their heads, must seek a new resting place every night.
The tramp is cut off from women. Few women become tramps. For their more fortunate sisters the tramp is an object of contempt. So homosexuality is a vice which is not unknown to these eternal wanderers.
The tramp, who has not committed any crime, and who is, when all is said and done, simply a victim of unemployment, is condemned to live more wretchedly than the worst criminal. He is a slave with a semblance of liberty which is worse than the most cruel slavery.
When we reflect upon his miserable destiny, which is shared by thousands of men in England, the obvious conclusion is that society would be treating him more kindly by shutting him up for the remainder of his days in prison, where he would at least enjoy relative comfort.
【词汇注释】
1. species：种类；物种
2. distinguish：区分
3. characteristic：特点
4. rag：破布
5. wanderer：流浪者
6. charity：慈善
7. roam：徘徊
8. possession：财产
9. inherit：继承
10. nomadic：游牧的
11. instinct：本能
12. ancestor：祖先
13. first and foremost：首要的
14. starve：挨饿
15. aisle：走廊；过道
16. destitute：贫穷的
17. spike：尖状物
18. hence：因此
19. pilgrimage：朝拜之旅
20. contempt：鄙视
21. homosexuality：同性恋
22. vice：罪恶
23. eternal：永恒的
24. condemn：谴责；宣判
25. wretchedly：悲惨地
26. semblance：类似；外表
27. miserable：可怜的
28. destiny：命运
二、阅读题目
根据短文内容，回答下列问题：
1. What are the striking characteristics of a typical British tramp?
2. What is the possible population of tramps in England and Wales when unemployment is the worst?
3. Why does a tramp wander?
4. How often does a tramp have to find a place to sleep?
5. Why would it be better to put a tramp in prison?
三、参考答案