Part Four: Monologue
“Almost everyone knows the painting, Mona Lisa, but not everyone knows of its bizarre history. It was sold to the king of France, and later Napoleon hung it in his own bedroom. Then, in 1911, it was stolen from the Louvre by an Italian man. Apparently, he simply put the painting under his shoulder and walked out the front door. Museum attendants didn’t even notice the painting was missing until a day or so later. The Mona Lisa turned up after about a year and a half in the shop of an antique dealer in Italy. The man who had stolen the painting wanted it back in the artist’s home country and, after his mission accomplished, he was seen as a national hero by many. Italian authorities then returned it to the Louvre Museum, where it now hangs behind bullet proof glass.”
每個人都知道蒙娜·麗莎這幅畫，可是并非人人了解她的離奇的歷史。她早先是賣給了法國國王，隨后拿破侖把她掛在自己的臥室里。之后，在1911年，她被一個意大利人從盧浮宮偷走。很明顯，這個人只是把這幅畫夾在自己的腋下從前門走出去。在畫被偷走的一兩天之后，盧浮宮的服務人員才發現畫被盜。約一年半之后，蒙娜·麗莎出現在意大利的一家古董店里。當年偷了此畫的人想讓她重新回到畫家的國家，任務完成之后，他也被很多人視為一個民族英雄。之后意大利當局把她歸還給盧浮宮，現在這幅畫正懸掛在宮內的防彈玻璃窗后面。

Part Five: Vocabulary and Expressions
-- take it easy不緊張，從容，不急
-- have the day off 不上班
-- check (something) out結帳離開，看看，試試
-- due back 歸還日期
-- encyclopedia百科全書
-- research (學術)研究；調查，探究
-- stressed out緊張的，感到有壓力的
-- It’s so…/ It’s such a… 它如此…
-- bizarre 奇異的；異乎尋常的
--* It’s so (+ adjective). It’s such a (+ noun).
It’s so beautiful. It’s so hot. It’s so noisy.
It’s such a beautiful painting. It’s such a hot day. It’s such a noisy city.