练习材料：

Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. A quiet day's fishing, or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get. They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, traveled 1900 miles. He hitch- hiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, traveled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there, he hitch-hiked to Paris in a lorry. The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.

[ˈʧɪldrən] [huː] [pleɪ] [ˈtru(ː)ənt] [frɒm] [skuːl][ɑːr] [ˌʌnɪˈmæʤɪnətɪv]. [ə] [ˈkwaɪət] [deɪz] [ˈfɪʃɪŋ], [ɔːr] [eɪt] [ˈaʊəz] [ɪn][ə] [ˈsɪnəmə] [ˈsiːɪŋ] [ðə] [seɪm] [fɪlm] [ˈəʊvər] [ænd] [ˈəʊvər] [əˈgɛn], [ɪz][ˈjuːʒʊəli] [æz] [fɑːr] [æz] [ðeɪ] [gɛt]. [ðeɪ] [hæv] [ɔːl] [biːn] [pʊt] [tuː][ʃeɪm] [baɪ] [ə] [bɔɪ] [huː], [waɪl] [ˈpleɪɪŋ] [ˈtru(ː)ənt], [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] [geɪv] [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][ˈɪŋglənd] [baɪ] [ðə] [ˈləʊkəl] [ɔːˈθɒrɪtiz]. [hiː] [hæz] [ˈʃʊəli] [sɛt] [ʌp] [ə][ˈrɛkɔːd] [fɔː] [ðə] [ˈθaʊzəndz] [ɒv] [ˈʧɪldrən] [huː] [driːm] [ɒv] [ɪˈveɪdɪŋ][skuːl].

任务配置：L0 +L4

笔记：

1.知识点

（1）Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. 逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。

　　①play truant from school表示“逃学”，上下文清楚时也可以省略 from school,直接说 play truant. truant也可以单用，表示“逃学者”。

　　As a boy, Tom used to play truant (from school).汤姆小时候常逃学。

②unimaginative的反义词为imaginative(富于想像力的，爱想像的)：

（2）A quiet day's fishing, or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over

and over again, is usually as far as they get. 他们通常能够做到的, 至多也就是安静地钓上一天鱼，或在电影院里坐上8个小时，一遍遍地看同一部电影。

①这句话的主语是is前面的两个并列短语。第1个短语的主要成分是动名词fishing，第2个短语的主要成分可以看做是eight hours(作为一个时间总量，它后面要跟动词单数形式)。它实际上是省略了动名词 sitting for(eight hours),seeing引导的为分词短语，表示伴随动作。

    ②over and over again为固定短语，表示“一再地”、“反复许多次地”：

③as far as在这里表示“到……程度”、“就……而言”，是连词，与距离没有关系。

（3）put…to shame,使……蒙羞，使……相形见绌。

　　What he has done put his parents to shame.他的所作所为使他的父母感到羞耻。

（4）hitch- hike 搭便车

（5）There he was picked up by a policeman…他在那儿被一个警察抓住了……

　　Pick up的含义之一是“逮捕”、“拘捕”：After the accident, he was picked up by the police.

（6）evading school 逃学