Let’s read aloud first. 最初に声を出して読んでみましょう。
A tank collector in the United Kingdom, Nick Mead, was surprised when he and his mechanic opened one of his tank’s diesel fuel tanks. Gold bars were inside and those were valued at approximately 2.4 million dollars. Mead bought the tank of an ex-Iraqi Army, Type 69, on online shopping site for his collection. Type 69 was a Chinese copy of the Soviet T-55 medium tank. The tanks were sold in large numbers to the Iraqi Army during the 1980s. People thought that Iraqi soldiers stole the gold bar and hid in their tank when they attacked and invaded Kuwait in 1990. A man called the police then, the gold was taken away by the police.
gold bar (金の延べ棒), be valued (価値がある), ex- (以前は), own (所有する), Iraqi (イラクの), soldier (兵隊), Kuwait (クウェート)
Questions:
- Who bought the tank on the internet?
- How much is the gold bars worth found in the tank?
- Who owned the tank in the past?
- What does people think why the gold bars were found in the tank?
- Who took the gold away?
- What is your opinion?