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今日主題：Bookish Mobsters Made Better Bookies / 中自有黃金屋

洪欣老師推薦：托福聽力最好的課外教材：60-Second Science

康康精選托福會考的主題，堅持每天精聽一定會進步的哦!!

建議方法：
1. 先聽兩三遍 (不看文稿)
2. 再一句一句聽寫 (每句都要聽寫數遍，直到寫出85%以上的字)
3. 最後check文稿，看哪聽不出來，單字沒背過，還是發音不熟。
4. 堅持天天聽，就能每天進步哦。

MP3音檔 (按右鍵可下載聽)：喜歡的同學，幫忙推或按讚哦~~
http://online1.tingclass.net/voaspe/…/20161031sa_science.mp3

只有音檔怎夠，聽不懂地方，不用怕，康康幫你準備好中英文稿了：

中英文稿：
Turns out, education pays off. That’s true whether you’re a doctor or a lawyer – or even a mobster, according to a new study.
事實證明，教育會獲得回報。根據一項新的研究表明，無論你是一名醫生或者律師，甚至是一名暴徒。

Researchers compared the FBI files of more than seven hundred Italian-American mafia men from the 30’s to the 40’s to other non-mob men from the 1940 census – some were neighbors, others were first and second generation Italian-American immigrants and some were U.S. born white men.
研究人員將FBI中的檔案700多名30到40歲義大利裔美國人黑手黨和1940名普查中的非暴徒進行了對比。他們有的是鄰居，有的人是第一和第二代義大利裔美國人移民和一些人是美國出生的白人男性。

They found that mobsters tended to have a year less schooling than their neighbors – but for those who stayed in school a little longer, they tended to do better economically. More education increased their income – or moolah - by about 8 percent, on average.
研究人員發現，暴徒接受教育的年限往往比他們的鄰居少一年——但是，對於那些在學校多停留時間一年的人來說，他們在經濟方面往往更好。一般而言，接受較多的教育將他們的收入提高了——金錢——約8%。

The Study is the Economics of Education Review.
該研究結果發表在《教育經濟學評論》雜誌上。

Of course, this shouldn’t be surprising. The mafia is essentially a corporation, involving complex organizational and numerical expertise. Weighing grams and running numbers takes more than basic math skills. And researchers found the mobsters with the highest return were the ones involved with more complicated schemes – think embezzling, racketeering and loan sharking. Their profit was about three times higher than the mobsters involved with criminal activity like robberies.
當然，這樣的結果不足為奇。黑手黨本質上是一個企業，涉及複雜的組織以及數位技術。稱重以及計算數位需要的不僅僅是基本的數學技巧。研究人員發現，收入最高的暴徒參與的最為複雜的方案——如貪污、敲詐勒索和放高利貸。這些暴徒的收益約是進行搶劫等犯罪活動歹徒利潤的三倍多。

So study up! No matter what you plan to do, seems like the more you study, the bigger the payoff. Even if you ain’t nothing but a wise guy.
所以，好好學習吧!無論你計畫做什麼事情，你學習的越多，獲得的收益也就越多。即使你並不聰明。