Reading NCE: Lesson 73 a Record-Holder

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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, 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.

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• You have made big progress. -北京二号- ♀ (136 bytes) () 03/23/2009 postreply 17:20:48

• 谢谢老二高手指点。我的毛病很多，吞音是其中之一。大概也是因为 -活着乐着- ♀ (56 bytes) () 03/23/2009 postreply 17:39:12

• 客气得太过了！不敢当。 -北京二号- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/23/2009 postreply 19:39:58

• 回复：Reading NCE: Lesson 73 a Record-Holder -agaochen- ♂ (24 bytes) () 03/24/2009 postreply 14:58:12