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Lesson73    The record-holder

Children who playtruant from school are unimaginative. A quiet day's fishing, or eight hours ina cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as theyget. They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant,traveled 1600 miles. He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into aboat to find somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next morning, he discoveredthat the boat had, in the meantime, traveled to Calais. No one noticed the boyas he crept off. From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. The driver gavehim a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. Thenext car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hopedit would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. There he was picked upby a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. He has surelyset up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.

ðə ˈrɛkɔːd-ˈhəʊldə

ˈʧɪldrən huː pleɪ

ˈtruːənt frɒm skuːl ɑːr ˌʌnɪˈmæʤɪnətɪv. ə ˈkwaɪət deɪz ˈfɪʃɪŋ, ɔːr eɪt ˈaʊəz ɪn ə ˈsɪnəmə

ˈsiːɪŋ ðə seɪm fɪlm ˈəʊvər ænd ˈəʊvər əˈɡɛn, ɪz ˈjuːʒʊəli æz fɑːr æz ðeɪ ɡɛt. ðeɪ hæv ɔːl biːn pʊt tuː ʃeɪm baɪ ə bɔɪ huː, waɪl

ˈpleɪɪŋ ˈtruːənt, ˈtrævld 1900 maɪlz. hiː hɪʧ- haɪkt tuː ˈdʌvər ænd, təˈwɔːdz

ˈiːvnɪŋ, wɛnt ˈɪntuː ə bəʊt tuː faɪnd ˈsʌmweə tuː sliːp. wɛn hiː wəʊk ʌp nɛkst

ˈmɔːnɪŋ, hiː dɪsˈkʌvəd ðæt ðə bəʊt hæd, ɪn ðə ˈmiːnˈtaɪm, ˈtrævld tuː ˈkæleɪ. nəʊ

wʌn ˈnəʊtɪst ðə bɔɪ æz hiː krɛpt ɒf. frɒm ðeə, hiː ˈhɪʧhaɪkt tuː ˈpærɪs ɪn ə ˈlɒri.

ðə ˈdraɪvə ɡeɪv hɪm ə fjuː ˈbɪskɪts ænd ə kʌp ɒv ˈkɒfi

ænd lɛft hɪm ʤʌst ˌaʊtˈsaɪd ðə ˈsɪti. ðə nɛkst kɑː ðə bɔɪ stɒpt dɪd nɒt teɪk hɪm ˈɪntuː ðə ˈsɛntər ɒv

ˈpærɪs æz hiː həʊpt ɪt wʊd, bʌt tuː Perpignan ɒn ðə frɛnʧ-ˈspænɪʃ ˈbɔːdə. ðeə

hiː wɒz pɪkt ʌp baɪ ə pəˈliːsmən ænd sɛnt bæk tuː ˈɪŋɡlənd baɪ ðə ˈləʊkəl ɔːˈθɒrɪtiz. hiː hæz ˈʃʊəlisɛt ʌp ə ˈrɛkɔːd fɔː ðə ˈθaʊzəndz ɒv ˈʧɪldrən huː driːm ɒv ɪˈveɪdɪŋ skuːl.

任务配置：L0 + L4

知识笔记：

单词：1、truant：逃学，逃避责任，偷懒，2、put to shame：使自惭形秽，3、hitch：搭便车，提起，拉起（衣服），4、hike：徒步旅行，远足，5、crept off：偷偷溜走，6、biscuit：饼干，松饼，7、border：边境，边界，边疆，国界，8、evading：逃脱，躲开，逃避

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练习感悟：这篇文章还是比较难的，读起来稍微比较拗口，不过录了两遍还是达标了。