創(chuàng)新英語教程第二冊 unit19a

[00:05.20]While you read [00:12.28]Rich and Famous or Rich and Dangerous? [00:17.61]They say that in the end we're all the same.You can have money and fame, [00:25.44]but in the end you still have to do the same kind of things as everyone else- [00:31.97]sleep,eat, fall in and out of love.and,apparently.commit crimes! [00:40.44]Yes,when you look at the world of celebrities, [00:45.71]it's amazing how many have had trouble with the law. [00:51.07]Here's just a few of the ones we could remember,but the Internet has lots more! [00:58.23]O.J.Simpson [01:01.88]O.J.was involved in perhaps the most famous celebrity trial of them all. [01:09.02]He was accused of killing his ex-wife.Nicole Brown. [01:14.76]and her lover.Ronald Goldman, [01:18.92]and he was allegedly filmed driving away from the scene in a truck. [01:24.87]At first,the evidence suggesting he was guilty [01:30.44]seemed to many people to be very clear, [01:34.88]but the trial,which was televised around the world,found him innocent. [01:41.12]Lots of people think the jury got it wrong [01:46.16]and that he was lucky to get away with it. [01:50.00]He had to pay several million dollars in damages to the victims' relatives [01:56.56]when they took him to court afterward. [02:00.32]However,as one American comedian said, [02:05.39]Have you ever heard of a millionaire murdering someone with their own hands? [02:11.74]These people employ someone just to answer the telephone! [02:16.70]Johnny Depp [02:20.36]He may look sweet and innocent, [02:24.51]but Johnny Depp has been found guilty of vandalism more than once in his life. [02:31.07]On one occasion,he smashed up a hotel room in New York. [02:36.94]He was charged,but it didn't go to court [02:41.99]because he agreed to pay $2000 to the hotel to repair the damage. [02:48.33]Mike Tyson [02:52.28]Mike Tyson continued to earn millions of dollars as a boxer [02:58.44]even after he had been to prison for rape. [03:03.20]He took a nineteen-year-old contestant in the Miss America beauty contest [03:09.54]to his hotel room and forced her to have sex with him. [03:14.87]He was later found guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison, [03:21.53]but he got out just three years later for good behaviour. [03:27.10]He hasn't exactly shown much good behaviour since then,though! [03:32.35]Jean-Claude van Damme [03:36.50]After admitting he had been drink-driving, [03:41.54]the so-called Muscles from Brussels was ordered to pay a $1200 fine. [03:49.62]was banned from driving for ninety days. [03:53.98]and was forced to go to an anti-drink-driving course. [03:59.26]Let's hope the course was more effective than the acting lessons he took! [04:05.11]David Beckham [04:08.87]Another bad driver is David Beckham. [04:13.41]He was convicted of driving at over ninety miles an hour [04:18.77]when he was on his way to a training session for his former football club.Manchester United. [04:25.43]His excuse was that he was being chased by a photographer. [04:31.49]He was also banned from driving, [04:35.54]but shortly afterwards the judge agreed to give him back his driving licence, [04:41.47]because he said that,as a celebrity, [04:45.94]it was safer for Beckham to travel in his own car than on public transport. [04:52.00]Safer for David,perhaps,but not for everyone else on the road.

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