新概念英语第三册第36课:A chance in a million
Lesson 36 A chance in a million 百万分之一的机遇
Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
What was the chance in a million?
We are less credulous than we used to be. In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable. Readers happily accepted the fact that an obscure maidservant was really the heros mother. A long-lost brother, who  ...