练习材料：

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.

ˈʧɪldrən huː pleɪ ˈtru(ː)ənt frɒm skuːl ɑːr ˌʌnɪˈmæʤɪnətɪv. ə ˈkwaɪət deɪz ˈfɪʃɪŋ, ɔːr eɪt ˈaʊəz ɪn ə ˈsɪnəmə ˈsiːɪŋ ðə seɪm fɪlm ˈəʊvər ænd ˈəʊvər əˈgɛn, ɪz ˈjuːʒʊəli æz fɑːr æz ðeɪ gɛt. ðeɪ hæv ɔːl biːn pʊt tuː ʃeɪm baɪ ə bɔɪ huː, waɪl ˈpleɪɪŋ ˈtru(ː)ənt, ˈtrævld 1600 maɪlz. hiː hɪʧ- haɪkt tuː ˈdʌvər ænd, təˈwɔːdz ˈiːvnɪŋ, wɛnt ˈɪntuː ə bəʊt tuː faɪnd ˈsʌmweə tuː sliːp. wɛn hiː wəʊk ʌp nɛkst ˈmɔːnɪŋ, hiː dɪsˈkʌvəd ðæt ðə bəʊt hæd, ɪn ðə ˈmiːnˈtaɪm, ˈtrævld tuː ˈkæleɪ. nəʊ wʌn ˈnəʊtɪst ðə bɔɪ æz hiː krɛpt ɒf. frɒm ðeə, hiː ˈhɪʧhaɪkt tuː ˈpærɪs ɪn ə ˈlɒri. ðə ˈdraɪvə geɪv hɪm ə fjuː ˈbɪskɪts ænd ə kʌp ɒv ˈkɒfi ænd lɛft hɪm ʤʌst ˌaʊtˈsaɪd ðə ˈsɪti. ðə nɛkst kɑː ðə bɔɪ stɒpt dɪd nɒt teɪk hɪm ˈɪntuː ðə ˈsɛntər ɒv ˈpærɪs æz hiː həʊpt ɪt wʊd, bʌt tuː Perpignan ɒn ðə frɛnʧ-ˈspænɪʃ ˈbɔːdə. ðeə hiː wɒz pɪkt ʌp baɪ ə pəˈliːsmən ænd sɛnt bæk tuː ˈɪŋglənd baɪ ðə ˈləʊkəl ɔːˈθɒrɪtiz. hiː hæz ˈʃʊəli sɛt ʌp ə ˈrɛkɔːd fɔː ðə ˈθaʊzəndz ɒv ˈʧɪldrən huː driːm ɒv ɪˈveɪdɪŋ skuːl.

任务配置：

L0＋L4

知识笔记：

新词：truant 逃学的；unimaginative 缺乏想象力的；hitch-hiked 搭便车；creep 爬行，蹑手蹑脚地走，过去式为crept；evade 逃避，规避，逃脱；

词组：over and over 反复，颠来倒去；put to 使人进入某种状态；in the meantime 在…期间，与此同时；

练习感悟：

今天……被母上大人勒令不能早起，哭唧唧了。