Chapter 1 Buying a lottery ticket
Rick Drummond is going to buy a lottery ticket. He’s walking down the street and listening to music. The music is very loud. Rick is singing as he listens. He walks into an ice-cream shop.
‘Can I help you?’ the shop assistant asks Rick. Rick looks at the man, but he can’t hear him.
‘Sorry?’ Rick says.
The shop assistant writes something and gives it to Rick. It says: TURN YOUR MUSIC OFF!
‘Sorry,’ Rick says. He turns off his music. ‘Can I have a lottery ticket, please?’
The shop assistant smiles. ‘This is an ice-cream shop,’ he says. ‘We don’t sell lottery tickets.’
‘But I always buy my lottery ticket here, from Mr Khan. Where is he?’ says Rick.
‘Mr Khan’s shop is next door and he sells lottery tickets,’ the shop assistant says slowly.
‘Ah, I’ve got the wrong shop. Stupid me!’ says Rick.
‘Well,’ asks the shop assistant, ‘do you want to buy an ice-cream?’
‘No, thank you,’ says Rick. ‘Ice-cream is bad for me. See you.’
‘Why? What do you do?’ the shop assistant asks.
Rick turns and smiles at the man. ‘I play the guitar and I write songs. I’m going to be a famous rock star one day.’
Rick leaves the shop. He’s singing a new song.
‘It’s an ice-cream shop, baby,
You can’t buy a lottery ticket here,
It’s an ice-cream shop, baby,
No lottery tickets here.’
The shop assistant watches him. ‘He can’t sing and he writes stupid songs. He isn’t going to be a rock star!’ He laughs.

第1章　買彩票
里克?德拉蒙德要去買張彩票。他沿著大街邊走邊聽(tīng)音樂(lè)，音樂(lè)聲音 很大。里克邊聽(tīng)邊唱。他走進(jìn)了一家冰激凌店。
“我能為你效勞嗎？”售貨員問(wèn)里克。里克看了看那人，但是沒(méi)聽(tīng)到他 說(shuō)的是什么。
“你說(shuō)什么？”里克說(shuō)道。
售貨員寫(xiě)了些什么遞給里克。上邊寫(xiě)著：“關(guān)掉你的音樂(lè)！”
“抱歉，”里克說(shuō)。他把音樂(lè)關(guān)了�！拔夷苜I一張彩票嗎，請(qǐng)問(wèn)？”
售貨員笑了。“這是冰激凌店，”他說(shuō)，“我們不賣彩票�！�
“但是我一直在這兒買彩票，從可汗先生那兒。他在哪兒？”里克說(shuō)。
“可汗先生的店在隔壁，他賣彩票，”售貨員慢悠悠地說(shuō)。
“啊，我走錯(cuò)店了。真傻呀我！”里克說(shuō)道。
“那么，”售貨員問(wèn)道，“你要買冰激凌嗎？”
“不，謝謝，”里克說(shuō)�！氨�激凌對(duì)我來(lái)說(shuō)不好。再見(jiàn)�！�
“為什么？你是做什么工作的？”售貨員問(wèn)道。
里克轉(zhuǎn)過(guò)身朝那人笑了笑�！拔覐椉�他，也寫(xiě)歌。有朝一日我會(huì)成為著名的搖滾明星�！�
里克離開(kāi)了那家店。他唱起了一首新歌：
“這是一家冰激凌店，寶貝，
你不能在這兒買彩票，
這是一家冰激凌店，寶貝，
這里沒(méi)有彩票�！�
售貨員注視著他�！八�不會(huì)唱歌，他寫(xiě)的歌真愚蠢。他成不了搖滾明星！” 他大笑起來(lái)。