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--- Lesson 73 The record-holder |
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--- First listen and then answer the question. |
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--- Did the boy go where he wanted to? |
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Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. |
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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. |
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They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles. |
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He hitchhiked to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. |
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When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais. |
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No one noticed the boy as he crept off. |
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From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. |
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The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. |
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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. |
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There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. |
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He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school. |
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