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Man Saves License Plates After Typhoon

A man in a yellow raincoat got off his scooter. He was holding a plastic bag.
He walked into a police station. What was he doing there?
穿著黃色雨衣的男人，下了機車，提著一袋塑膠袋走進警察局。他在做甚麼呢?

This happened after a typhoon hit Taiwan. The typhoon was one of the
strongest in a long time. Kaohsiung was hit with floods! The flood water was
high. It wrecked cars, scooters, and other vehicles.
強烈颱風來襲後，高雄淹大水，許多汽車跟機車都遭殃。

License plates are on the front and back of vehicles. They have numbers and
letters on them. The flood made hundreds of license plates come off!
車牌通常裝在汽車的前面跟後面，上面有數字跟字母，好幾百面車牌因為淹水從車子脫落。

After the typhoon, the man was riding home from work. He saw license plates
everywhere! He was worried. Someone could use them to do bad things!
颱風過後，這名男子下班騎車經過，看到地上到處都是車牌，他擔心會有人把它們撿走做壞事。

So the man stopped. He got off his scooter. He picked up every license plate
he saw. On the first day, he found seven. After that, he found more. He saved
18 license plates!
所以他停了下來，把他看到的每一面車牌撿起來。第一天就撿到了 7
面，之後越撿越多，總共撿到 18 面車牌!

So why was the man at the police station? He gave them the license plates.
People were happy. Some gave him a reward!
男子把所有車牌交給警察，車牌的主人很開心，有一些還給了他獎勵!

The man didn't pick up license plates for rewards. He did it because he's
kind!

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Vocabulary
好心人撿拾遺落的車牌交給警察，預防有人冒用。

1. scooter 摩托車，機車。
Wow, the rain is coming down hard! 哇，雨下得真大!
Yeah, I'm really worried about my scooter. 對啊，我真擔心我的摩托車。
I parked it on the street.我把它停在街上。

2. flood 淹水。
The last time it was flooded,上次它被水淹，
it cost me 10-thousand NT to fix it. 花了我一萬塊修理。

3. do 做。
There's nothing you can do now. 你現在可沒辦法了。
I know. But what if it's flooded again? 我知道，但是假如它又淹了怎麼辦?
I need to ride it to work tomorrow. 我明天得騎車上班。

4. Typhoon Day 颱風假。
Tomorrow could be another Typhoon Day. 明天也許又放颱風假。
Hey, you may be right! 你可能猜對呢!

這些單字你記住了嗎?
scooter摩托車，機車 flood淹水 do做 Typhoon Day颱風假

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Quiz

1. Which one is a vehicle?
a. A flood
b. A scooter
c. A license plate

2. How many license plates did the man save?
a. 7
b. 11
c. 18

3. Why did the man pick up the license plates?
a. He wanted rewards.
b. He is kind.
c. He wasn't worried.

Answers
1. b
2. c
3. b
 

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Hi everyone, welcome to an exciting new episode of News Bites!

I'm Kelly Kimura…

And I'm Jacob Ingram.

Coming up next in today's news: the school milk program is getting more
money, and an ugly painting is by… well, listen to find out!

And in today's Tasty Tidbit…teens buy an oil well so it can be shut down!

Stay tuned for more on those stories!
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學生喝鮮奶計畫 預算增至新台幣15億元
School Milk Program Budget to Rise to NT$1.5 Billion

Everyone knows that milk is nutritious (有營養的).

It helps our bones (骨頭), teeth, and muscles (肌肉) grow strong.

That's why Taiwan has a new $710 million NT school milk program.

This year, the program is working to give fresh milk to students.

Schools in nine cities and counties have gotten milk deliveries (交貨).

Many parents hope that all schools, from kindergarten to middle school, can
join this program.

Next year, the budget (預算) for the program will be raised to $1.5 billion
NT.

The Ministry of Agriculture (農業部) will work with the Ministry of Education
(教育部) to give milk to more schools.

The two ministries will each give half of the budget.

Milk will be delivered to schools two times a week.

About 20,000 tons of dairy products will be needed.

Some are worried that this much milk will not be good for Taiwan's dairy
farmers (酪農業).

But this is only four percent of the milk produced (生產) in Taiwan.

The goals (目標) of the program are to give children nutritious milk and
support Taiwan's fresh milk producers.

However, there are still some problems.

For big schools with lots of students, keeping fresh milk cold may be a
problem.

Some schools might have to buy large refrigerators to keep the milk cold.

This is why many schools use ESL, or Extended Shelf Life, milk (保久乳).

Some people think giving students milk coupons (牛奶兌換券) is a better idea.

But some children cannot easily get milk outside of school.

They may live far from stores.

Students in many countries, such as Japan and Canada, have had milk at school
for years.

Although many problems need to be solved (解決), the program is good for the
children of Taiwan.

農業部與教育部將與各地主管機關密切合作，造福孩童。
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60年前發現的畫作 可能是畢卡索所畫
Painting Found 60 Years Ago Might Be by Picasso

Have you ever found something that your family has had for a long, long time?

It might be something that belongs to your parents or grandparents.

If you're lucky, it might be valuable (值錢).

This happened to Andrea Lo Rosso.

His father Luigi was a junk (垃圾) dealer (經銷商) in the 1960s.

A junk dealer buys things from people and tries to sell them to make money.

In 1962, Luigi found a painting in a house in Capri (卡布里), an Italian
island.

It had a signature (簽名) on the top left corner, but Luigi didn't know whose
it was.

Andrea said Luigi didn't know about art, so he didn't know who Picasso was.

When he was a kid, Andrea read about Picasso's work in an encyclopedia
(百科全書).

He told Luigi the signature looked like Picasso's signature shown in the
encyclopedia.

But his father didn't understand.

His mother said the painting was ugly (醜陋的) and horrible (可怕的).

She didn't want to keep it.

Later, Andrea saw another Picasso in an art book that looked like the
painting on their wall.

He also learned that Picasso often visited Capri.

Over the years, the Lo Rossos showed the painting to a few art historians
(藝術史學家).

The art historians told them that the painting wasn't by Picasso.

However, some of the art historians who looked at the painting wanted to buy
it!

This made the Lo Rossos think that the painting was by Picasso.

Recently, a person whose job is to look at paintings and see who painted them
said that the painting was by Picasso.

She said it was worth (值得) around $6.6 million US dollars.

That's 212 million NT!!

下次家裡翻出陳年物品，先別急著丟掉，搞不好很值錢呢。
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So in today's News Bites:

Taiwan's school milk program will get a bigger budget next year.

The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Education are working
together to have fresh milk delivered to more students around the country.

Although there are many problems that need to be solved, the program is good
for the children of Taiwan.
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And...

Long ago, a painting that was called horrible was found by a junk dealer.

He didn't know how valuable it was.

His son thought the painting might be by Picasso.

Now an expert says it is!
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趣味小點
Tasty Tidbit

And in today's Tasty Tidbit...

A boy wanted to be a sanitation worker (環衛工人) when he grew up.

He saw lots of trash.

He saw sanitation workers cleaning it up.

In high school, he still wanted to clean up the environment (環境).

He found out about old oil wells (井).

There are over 100,000 old oil wells in America.

Nobody owns them.

Lots of gases that are bad for the environment come out of these oil wells.

Nobody stops the gases.

What could this teenager do?

Maybe most people would do nothing - what a big job!

Well, he and two friends raised $350,000 NT in three months!

They used the money to help stop gases coming out of one oil well.

What a great idea!
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And that's it for today's episode of News Bites!

If you have a fun fact, a joke, or interesting news you'd like to share with
us, record your message and send your Tasty Tidbit to us at
newsbites@icrt.com.tw.

You might hear it at the end of an episode!

We'll see you next time for an exciting new episode of News Bites!