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(喜马拉雅新概念英音第二册)

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Lesson73 The record-holder

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 1600 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.

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ˈʧɪldrən hu pleɪ ˈtruənt frʌm skul ɑr ənɪˈmæˌʤɪnətɪv. ə ˈkwaɪət deɪz ˈfɪʃɪŋ, ɔr eɪt ˈaʊərz ɪn ə ˈsɪnəmə ˈsiɪŋ ðə seɪm fɪlm ˈoʊvər ænd ˈoʊvər əˈgɛn, ɪz ˈjuʒəwəli æz fɑr æz ðeɪ gɛt. ðeɪ hæv ɔl bɪn pʊt tu ʃeɪm baɪ ə bɔɪ hu, waɪl ˈpleɪɪŋ ˈtruənt, ˈtrævəld 1600 maɪlz. hi hɪʧ- haɪkt tu ˈdoʊvər ænd, təˈwɔrdz ˈivnɪŋ, wɛnt ˈɪntu ə boʊt tu faɪnd ˈsʌmˌwɛr tu slip. wɛn hi woʊk ʌp nɛkst ˈmɔrnɪŋ, hi dɪˈskʌvərd ðæt ðə boʊt hæd, ɪn ðə ˈminˌtaɪm, ˈtrævəld tu kəˈleɪ. noʊ wʌn ˈnoʊtəst ðə bɔɪ æz hi krɛpt ɔf. frʌm ðɛr, hi hɪʧ-haɪkt tu ˈpɛrɪs ɪn ə ˈlɔri. ðə ˈdraɪvər geɪv hɪm ə fju ˈbɪskəts ænd ə kʌp ʌv ˈkɑfi ænd lɛft hɪm ʤʌst ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðə ˈsɪti. ðə nɛkst kɑr ðə bɔɪ stɑpt dɪd nɑt teɪk hɪm ˈɪntu ðə ˈsɛntər ʌv ˈpɛrɪs æz hi hoʊpt ɪt wʊd, bʌt tu Perpignan ɑn ðə frɛnʧ-ˈspænɪʃ ˈbɔrdər. ðɛr hi wʌz pɪkt ʌp baɪ ə pəˈlismən ænd sɛnt bæk tu ˈɪŋglənd baɪ ðə ˈloʊkəl əˈθɔrətiz. hi hæz ˈʃʊrli sɛt ʌp ə ˈrɛkərd fɔr ðə ˈθaʊzəndz ʌv ˈʧɪldrən hu drim ʌv ɪˈveɪdɪŋ skul.

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L0+L4