83.English Listening in Secondary Schools

A gap year is a period of time to experience lives, usually taken after high school or university and before getting a job or postgraduate education.
Steve Jobs, famous for starting Apple, spent months living in India, thinking what was important to him.
The famous writer, J. K. Rowling, also had her gap years when she taught English as a foreign language in Portugal.
During this time, Harry Potter went from being an idea on a piece of paper.
Unlike them, Emma Watson decided to take a break from acting to gender studies, reading a new book every week as personal study.
Benedict Cumberbatch, who played Sherlock, travelled throughout the Himalayas when he was 19 years old, living with a Nepali family and teaching English there.
Malia Obama, daughter of former US President Obama, also chose to do some social practice before going to college.
译文：
空档期是一段体验生活的时间，通常在高中或大学毕业后，在获得工作或研究生教育之前进行。
因创办苹果公司而闻名的史蒂夫-乔布斯在印度生活了几个月，思考什么对他来说是重要的。
著名作家J.K.罗琳也有过空档期，当时她在葡萄牙教英语作为一种外语。
在这段时间里，《哈利-波特》从一张纸上的想法变成了现实。
与他们不同的是，艾玛-沃森决定从演艺事业中抽身出来进行性别研究，每周读一本新书作为个人学习。
扮演夏洛克的本尼迪克特-康伯巴奇在19岁时走遍了喜马拉雅山，与一个尼泊尔家庭一起生活，并在那里教英语。
美国前总统奥巴马的女儿玛利亚-奥巴马也选择在上大学前做一些社会实践。
重点词汇：
take a break 休息一下