新概念英語(yǔ)第二冊(cè)Lesson 73 The record-holder紀(jì)錄保持者(精講)

Lesson 73
The record-holder
紀(jì)錄保持著
First listen and then answer the question.
聽(tīng)錄音，然后回答以下問(wèn)題。
Did the boy go where he wanted to?
Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. A quiet days 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, travelled 1,600 miles. He hitchhiked 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, travelled to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off. From there, he hitchhiked 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.
New words and expressions 生詞和短語(yǔ)
record-holder 紀(jì)錄保持者
truant n. 逃學(xué)的孩子
unimaginative adj. 缺乏想像力的
shame n. 慚愧，羞恥
hitchhike v. 搭便車(chē)旅行
meantime n. 其間
lorry n. 卡車(chē)
border n. 邊界
evade v. 逃避，逃離