[ti:新概念英语第二册] [by:http://www.TingClass.com] [00:00.87]Lesson 46 [00:02.12] Expensive and uncomfortable [00:05.68]First listen and then answer the question: [00:10.96]What did the man in this story do? [00:13.91]When a plane from London arrived at Sydney airport, [00:19.81]workers began to unload a number of wooden boxes which contained clothing. [00:27.28]No one could account for the fact that one of the boxes was extremely heavy. [00:34.94]It suddenly occurred to one of the workers to open up the box. [00:40.87]He was astonished at what he found. [00:44.36]A man was lying in the box on top of a pile of woollen goods. [00:51.14]He was so surprised at being discovered that he did not even try to run away. [00:59.97]After he was arrested, [01:02.75]the man admitted hiding in the box before the plane left London. [01:09.57]He had had a long and uncomfortable trip, [01:13.50]for he had been confined to the wooden box for over eighteen hours. [01:19.63]The man was ordered to pay `3,500 for the cost of the trip. [01:28.77]The normal price of a ticket is `2,000!