练习材料：
Lesson 73 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 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, traveled 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.
ðəˈrɛkərd-ˈhoʊldər
ˈʧɪldrən hu pleɪˈtruənt frʌm skul ɑr ənɪˈmæˌʤɪnətɪv. əˈkwaɪət deɪz ˈfɪʃɪŋ, ɔr eɪt ˈaʊərz ɪn əˈsɪnəməˈsiɪŋðə seɪm fɪlm ˈoʊvər ænd ˈoʊvər əˈgɛn, ɪz ˈjuʒəwəli æz fɑr æz ðeɪ gɛt. ðeɪ hæv ɔl bɪn pʊt tu ʃeɪm baɪə bɔɪ hu, waɪl ˈpleɪɪŋˈtruənt, ˈtrævəld 1600 maɪlz. hi hɪʧhaɪkt tu ˈdoʊvər ænd, təˈwɔrdz ˈivnɪŋ, wɛnt ˈɪntu ə boʊt tu faɪnd ˈsʌmˌwɛr tu slip. wɛn hi woʊk ʌp nɛkst ˈmɔrnɪŋ, hi dɪˈskʌvərd ðæt ðə boʊt hæd, ɪn ðəˈminˌtaɪm, ˈtrævəld tu kəˈleɪ. noʊ wʌn ˈnoʊtɪst ðə bɔɪ æz hi krɛpt ɔf. frʌm ðɛr, hi hɪʧhaɪkt tu ˈpærɪs ɪn əˈlɔri. ðəˈdraɪvər geɪv hɪm ə fju ˈbɪskɪts ænd ə kʌp ʌv ˈkɔfi ænd lɛft hɪm ʤʌst ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ðəˈsɪti. ðə nɛkst kɑr ðə bɔɪ stɑpt dɪd nɑt teɪk hɪm ˈɪntu ðəˈsɛntər ʌv ˈpærɪs æz hi hoʊpt ɪt wʊd, bʌt tu Perpignan ɑn ðə frɛnʧ-ˈspænɪʃˈbɔrdər. ðɛr hi wʌz pɪkt ʌp baɪə pəˈlismən ænd sɛnt bæk tu ˈɪŋglənd baɪ ðəˈloʊkəl əˈθɔrətiz. hi hæz ˈʃʊrli sɛt ʌp əˈrɛkərd fɔr ðəˈθaʊzəndz ʌv ˈʧɪldrən hu drim ʌv ɪˈveɪdɪŋ skul.
任务配置：L0+L4
知识笔记：
truant 逃学
as far as they get 他们能够做到的程度
hitchhike 搭便车
biscuit 饼干
evade 逃离；逃脱
put sb. to shame 让……相形见绌
