Voting for Best High School Athletes
投票選出最佳高中運動員
Introduction
Many newspapers are asking people to vote for the best high school athletes and teams for 2025-26.
許多報紙正邀請民眾投票選出 2025-26 年度最佳的高中運動員與球隊。
Main Body
In Peoria, the Journal Star has polls for the best boys' team. The Manual basketball team and the Tremont baseball team won state titles. The Eureka cross country team also won a title for the first time in 22 years.
在 Peoria，Journal Star 正在進行最佳男子隊的民意調查。Manual 籃球隊和 Tremont 棒球隊贏得了州冠軍。Eureka 越野隊也時隔 22 年再次贏得冠軍。
Other newspapers are doing the same. The Star Press and the Cheboygan Daily Tribune are looking for the best softball players. In other cities, people vote for the best athlete of the week in golf, track, and lacrosse.
其他報紙也在做同樣的事情。Star Press 和 Cheboygan Daily Tribune 正在尋找最佳的壘球選手。在其他城市，民眾則會投票選出高爾夫、田徑和長棍球的每週最佳運動員。
The Cincinnati Enquirer changed how they give awards. They do not send papers in the mail now. They send digital files through Dropbox because the mail was not working well.
Cincinnati Enquirer 改變了頒獎方式。他們現在不再透過郵件寄送文件，而是透過 Dropbox 傳送數位檔案，因為之前的郵遞服務運作不佳。
Conclusion
The sports season is ending. Now, people vote to choose the best players and teams.
體育賽季即將結束。現在民眾正透過投票選出最佳球員與球隊。
Vocabulary Learning
⚡ The "Who is doing what?" Pattern
In this text, we see a very common way to describe groups of people. Look at how the writer connects a place/company to an action.
The Pattern:
[Name of Group] [Action Word]
Examples from the text:
- The Journal Star has polls.
- The Manual basketball team won titles.
- The Cincinnati Enquirer changed how they give awards.
💡 Key A2 Tip: "The Same"
The text says: "Other newspapers are doing the same."
When you don't want to repeat a long sentence, just use "the same."
- Example: I like football. My brother likes the same.
🛠️ Simple Word Swap
Instead of using a big word like "Digital Files," think of it as: Paper Computer files
(The text tells us they stopped using paper and started using Dropbox).