标题: LESSON 14 Red Hot [打印本页] 作者: tingroom 时间: 2010-12-11 10:51 标题: LESSON 14 Red Hot
listen to the material carefully,although it is difficult and sometime you can't write down the correct answer.As long as you have tried,whatever you write down will be the harvest of yours.You should believe that only by accumulating little by little could you learn English welll.so come on.
Most people know what a hot dog is. It's a sausage in a roll. But do you know why it's called a hot dog? Well, the long red sausage ____________ a Frankfurter.
It got its name from the German town Frankfurt. The sausages were very popular, but hot frankfurters were difficult to sell in crowds One man, Harry Stevens, _____________in baseball games. He had an idea. Why not put the frankfurters in long, hot bread rolls?This made them easy to sell.
The “red hot" ________________and became very popular. But in 1903, an American cartoonist drew a long German sausage dog in place of the frankfurter so a frankfurter in a roll soon became known as a “hot dog". It was a joke, but some people really thought the sausages contained dog meat. For a while,sales of hotdogs failed, but not for long.