精选新概念英语必背 36 篇文章
        新概念三 Lesson 14         A noble gangster 贵族歹徒
   There was a time when the owners of shops and businesses in Chicago had to pay large sums
of money to gangsters in return for 'protection.' If the money was not paid promptly, the gangsters
would quickly put a man out of business by destroying his shop. Obtaining 'protection money' is not
a modern crime. As long ago as the fourteenth century, an Englishman, Sir John Hawkwood, made
the remarkable discovery that people would  ...