【词汇扫描】
mascot 球童
trial 试训
preparatory 预备的
academy 学校
Youth Training Scheme 青年训练计划
He was Manchester United's mascot for a match
against West Ham United in 1986.
Young Beckham had trials with his local club,
Leyton Orient, and attended Tottenham Hotspur's,
which was the first club he played for, school of excellence.
He also attended Bradenton Preparatory Academy,
but signed schoolboy forms at Manchester United
on his fourteenth birthday,
and subsequently signed a Youth Training Scheme contract
on 8 July 1991.

【逐句对照】
He was Manchester United's mascot for a match
against West Ham United in 1986.
Young Beckham had trials with his local club, Leyton Orient,
and attended Tottenham Hotspur's,
which was the first club he played for,
school of excellence.
He also attended Bradenton Preparatory Academy,
but signed schoolboy forms at Manchester United
on his fourteenth birthday,
and subsequently signed a Youth Training Scheme contract
on 8 July 1991.

【多学一点】
mascot 吉祥物，吉祥符
The mascot of Beijing 2008 Olympics.
The team had a mountain lion as their mascot.
trial 试用
You have to have a trial for three months in order to get the job.
试验
The trials show that smoking will do harm to people.
preparatory 预备的
preparatory course 预备课程
preparatory students 预科学生
preparatory school 预备学校
academy 学院，学校
an academy of music
subsequently
then 然后，后来
The thief was caught by the shopkeeper
and subsequent sent to the police station.
scheme 计划
plan
Jack's scheme for raising money is practicable.

【词汇扫描】
exceptionally 特别地
second leg 下半场
substitute 替补
reserve 预备
He was part of an exceptionally talented group of young players
at the club who guided the club to win the FA Youth Cup in May 1992,
with Beckham scoring in the second leg of the final against Crystal Palace.
He made his first appearance for United's first-team that year,
as a substitute in a League Cup match against Brighton & Hove Albion,
and signed his first professional contract shortly afterwards.
United reached the final of the Youth Cup again the following year,
with Beckham playing in their defeat by Leeds United,
and he won another medal in 1994
when the club's reserve team won their league.

【逐句对照】
He was part of an exceptionally talented group of young players
at the club who guided the club to win the FA Youth Cup in May 1992,
with Beckham scoring in the second leg of the final against Crystal Palace.
He made his first appearance for United's first-team that year,
as a substitute in a League Cup match against Brighton & Hove Albion,
and signed his first professional contract shortly afterwards.
United reached the final of the Youth Cup again the following year,
with Beckham playing in their defeat by Leeds United,
and he won another medal in 1994
when the club's reserve team won their league.

【多学一点】
exceptionally 非凡的，异常的
extraordinarily
This summer has been exceptionally dry.
leg 一段赛程
In the second leg of the game, he scored two goals.
substitute 替代品 / 替补运动员
substitute for …的替代品
Use plastics as a substitute for wood.
reserve
reserve team 预备队 / 储备
The old man kept a large reserve of firewood for cold weather.

【词汇扫描】
loan 租借
goalless draw 平局
He went to Preston North End on loan in the 1994-95 season
to get some first team experience,
then made his first Premier League appearance
for Manchester United on 2 April 1995,
in a goalless draw against Leeds United.

【逐句对照】
He went to Preston North End on loan in the 1994-95 season
to get some first team experience,
then made his first Premier League appearance
for Manchester United on 2 April 1995,
in a goalless draw against Leeds United.

【多学一点】
loan 借出
May we have the loan of your ladder?
租借
goalless draw 零比零平局
draw 平局
The game ended in a draw.

【故事原文】
He was Manchester United's mascot for a match
against West Ham United in 1986.
Young Beckham had trials with his local club,
Leyton Orient, and attended Tottenham Hotspur's,
which was the first club he played for, school of excellence.
He also attended Bradenton Preparatory Academy,
but signed schoolboy forms at Manchester United
on his fourteenth birthday,
and subsequently signed a Youth Training Scheme contract
on 8 July 1991.
He was part of an exceptionally talented group of young players
at the club who guided the club to win the FA Youth Cup in May 1992,
with Beckham scoring in the second leg of the final against Crystal Palace.
He made his first appearance for United's first-team that year,
as a substitute in a League Cup match against Brighton & Hove Albion,
and signed his first professional contract shortly afterwards.
United reached the final of the Youth Cup again the following year,
with Beckham playing in their defeat by Leeds United,
and he won another medal in 1994
when the club's reserve team won their league.
He went to Preston North End on loan in the 1994-95 season
to get some first team experience,
then made his first Premier League appearance
for Manchester United on 2 April 1995,
in a goalless draw against Leeds United.