[ti:新概念英语第二册] [by:http://www.TingClass.com] [00:01.83]Lesson 73 [00:04.08] The record-holder [00:06.52]First listen and then answer the question: [00:11.15]Did the boy go where he wanted to? [00:15.72]Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. [00:21.19]A quiet days' fishing, [00:23.42]or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, [00:29.40]is usually as far as they get. [00:33.02]They have all been put to shame by a boy who,while playing truant travelled 1,600 miles. [00:43.40]He hitchhiked to Dover and towards evening went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep [00:51.79]When he woke up next morning, [00:54.31]he discovered that the boat had,in the meantime,travelled to Calais. [01:01.27]No one noticed the boy as he crept off. [01:05.18]From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. [01:10.06]The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. [01:18.30]The next car the boy stopped [01:21.46]did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would, [01:26.66]but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. [01:31.26]There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. [01:39.34]He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school