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[12:05.23]The last reading.
[12:07.65]Soap Operas
[12:10.14]A soap opera is a serial on television or radio
[12:14.75]where each episode links to the next episode.
[12:19.17]So you're always left at the end of one short episode
[12:23.34]wondering what's going ...

介绍： 版权归原作所有，仅供此学习，若有侵权请告知删除。
[12:05.23]The last reading.
[12:07.65]Soap Operas
[12:10.14]A soap opera is a serial on television or radio
[12:14.75]where each episode links to the next episode.
[12:19.17]So you're always left at the end of one short episode
[12:23.34]wondering what's going to happen next.
[12:27.69]Soap opera is generally about neighbours, friends, family.
[12:33.42]There may be controversial subjects like drug taking, or violence, divorce.
[12:41.01]So it would cover all the things that you could imagine possibly happening in people's lives.
[12:48.48]The term soap opera comes from the 1950s,
[12:52.77]when radio in America started advertising soap products
[12:57.39]and they devised little stories to sell these soap products and they called them soap operas.
[13:05.91]Soap operas are very popular in the UK.
[13:10.46]If you look at the most popular programmes people watch,
[13:14.50]the main soap operas on TV are almost always at the top.
[13:20.10]It's an instant fix of entertainment.
[13:23.59]People can just sit down on the sofa and enjoy it.