Notes
1 contraptions:mechanical devices;gadgets
2 felt-tip marker:软笔尖的颜色笔
3 adhesive lapel tag:不干胶标牌
4 Duke of Plaza Toro: Duke is a nobleman with the highest hereditary rank, especially in Britain. Plaza Tora is Spanish, something like Bull Fighting Ring in English
5 Bangor:City of South central Maine
6 Bangkok:Captical of Thailand,曼谷
7 spiel a lengthy, usually extravagant, speech or argument intended to be persuasive
8 collect call:a telephone call with payment to be made by the receiver
9 press baron:Baron is the lowest male rank of nobility, but here it stands for a man with great power in press
10 mock: simulated
11 cheery:cheerful
Reading comprehension
1 The author apparently regrets____
a. having to take his children to PlaySpace
b. being first-named
c. being approached so frequently by PR agents
d. having to put on an adhesive lapel tag
2 PR in paragraph6 stands for____
a. personal request b. personal respect
c. public relations d. public review
3 When the author, as a journalist, speaks on the phone___
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