شرکت در آزمون آنلاین انگلیسی 3 - انگلیسی 3 | آزمون شماره 11982

        A famous writer who was visiting Japan was invited to give a lecture at a university to a large group of students. As most of them could not understand spoken English, he had to have a translator.

      During his lecture he told an amusing story which went for rather a long time. At last he stopped to let the translator translate it into Japanese, and was very surprised when the man did this in a few seconds, after which all the students laughed loudly.

After the lecture, the writer thanked the translator for his good work and then said to him, “Now please tell me how you translated that long story of mine into such a short Japanese one.”

       “I didn’t tell the story at all”, the translator answered with a smile, “I just said, the respectful lecturer has just told a funny story. You will all laugh, please. ”

The famous writer had to ask a translator to help him because . . .  .

Americans this year will swallow 15000 tons of aspirin, one of the safest and most effective drugs invented by man. As the most popular medicine in the world today, it is an efficient pain reliever. Its harmful effects are relatively moderate, and it’s cheap.

  For millions of people who have arthritis, it is the only thing that works. Aspirin, in short, is truly the 20th-century wonder drug. It is also the second-largest suicide drug and is the leading cause of poisoning among children. It has side effects that, although relatively mild, are mainly unrecognized among users. 

  Even though a German company first sold aspirin in 1899, it has been around much longer than that. Hippocrates, in ancient Greece, understood the medical value of the leaves and tree bark, which today are known to contain salicylates, the chemical in aspirin. During the 19th century, there was a great deal of experimentation in Europe with this chemical. It led to the introduction of aspirin.

What is discussed in the first paragraph?