练习材料:
Lesson31 Success story
Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.
Before he retired,
Frank was the head of a very large business company,
but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.
It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.
He saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small work-shop of his own.
In his twenties,
Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes.
At that time he had two helpers.
In a few years,
the small work-shop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.
Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.
He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.
She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!
应用配置：L0+L4
知识笔记：Hawkins/ˈhɔkɪnz/ retired/rɪˈtaɪrd/ employed/ɛmˈplɔɪd
练习感悟：今天这篇课文生词较少，但是早上在录制时却花了好些时间，中间卡壳停顿，不断重来。究其原因，不是太熟练。读得不流利，一定是读得少的原因。
