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Lesson 73 The record-holder

Little boys 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 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, 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 boys who dream of evading school.

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学习检测：

【英语思维训练】根据英文提示猜出单词。 1. travel by getting free rides

2. someone who breaks a record and hold it

3. escape or try to avoid answering or performing (duties, questions etc.) 4. lack powers of invention 6. feel guilty

【完形填空】用所给词的适当形式填空。

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5. one who is absent from school without permission

Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. A quiet day’s 1. (fish), 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 2. (shame) by a

boy who, while 3. (play) truant, travelled 1,600 miles. He 4. (hitchhike) to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere 5. (sleep). When he 6. (wake 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 7. (leave) 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 8. (pick 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.

【词汇运用】翻译下列句子，注意积累句中有用表达法。

1. As a boy, Tom used to play truant from school. 2. 他是一个经常逃学的孩子。 3. What he has done put his parents to shame. 4. What a shame you didn't win. 5. Jim沿途搭乘便车经法国前往西班牙。 6. How many countries border Switzerland? 7. 他总是试图逃税(taxes)。 8. 他是一个富有想象力的作者。 9. He didn’t understand, so I had to say it over and over again. 10. He was injured towards the end of the game. 11. He didn’t notice how she felt when he introduced his girlfriend to her. ★有用表达或短语：play truant，put sb. to shame，What a shame + 句子，evade doing sth.

参考译文

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逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。他们通常能够做到的，至多也就是安静地钓上一天鱼，或在电影院里坐上8个小时，一遍遍地看同一部电影。而有那么一个小男孩，他 在逃学期间旅行了1,600英里，从而使上述所有逃学的孩子们都相形见绌了。他搭便车到了多佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉。第二天早上他醒来 时，发现船在这段时间已经到了加。当男孩从船里爬出来时，谁也没有发现他。从那里他又搭上卡车到了巴黎。司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，就把他丢在了城 外。男孩截住的下一辆车，没有像他希望的那样把他带到巴黎市中心，而是把他带到了法国和西班牙边界上的佩皮尼昂。他在那儿被一个警察抓住了，之后被当局送 回了英国。他无疑为成千上万梦想逃避上学的孩子们创造了一项纪录。

检测题答案

【英语思维训练】根据英文提示猜出单词。 1. travel by getting free rides hitchhike

2. someone who breaks a record and hold it record-holder 3. escape or try to avoid answering or performing (duties, questions etc.) evade 4. lack powers of invention unimaginative 6. feel guilty shame

【词汇运用】翻译下列句子，注意积累句中有用表达法。

1. As a boy, Tom used to play truant from school. 汤姆小时候常逃学。 2. 他是一个经常逃学的孩子。 He is a boy who often plays truant. 3. What he has done put his parents to shame. 他的所做所为使他父母感到羞耻。

4. What a shame you didn't win. 你没赢, 真遗憾. 5. Jim沿途搭乘便车经法国前往西班牙。 Jim hitchhiked through France to Spain. 6. How many countries border Switzerland? 有多少国家与瑞士接壤？ 7. 他总是试图逃税(taxes)。 He always tries to evade paying taxes. 8. 他是一个富有想象力的作者。 He is an imaginative writers. 9. He didn’t understand, so I had to say it over and over again. 10. He was injured towards the end of the game.

11. He didn’t notice how she felt when he introduced his girlfriend to her. ★有用表达或短语：play truant，put sb. to shame，What a shame + 句子，evade doing sth.

【知识点讲解】

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5. one who is absent from school without permission truant

一．词汇学习

1. record-holder n.记录保持着

record [ ] n. 记录 set up/make/create a record创造记录 hold a record 保持记录 break/beat a record

record [ ]v. 记录 eg. If you talk in class, I will record your name.

2. truant n. 逃学的孩子 truancy n. 逃学 play truant=evade school 逃学

3. unimaginative adj. 缺乏想象力的 （反 imaginative）

imagine v. 想象 imagine sth/doing sth. /that 想象做…. Eg. Don’t you imagine that I can lend you money every time?

imaginary adj. 想象中的，不真实的 imaginable adj. 可想象的 imagination n. 想象力，想象的事物

4. shame 1)un. 惭愧，羞耻 put sb. to shame 使..感到惭愧，使…黯然失色 eg. Cinderella’s beauty put her sisters to shame.

2)cn. 遗憾的事，可惜 eg. What a shame that you have to leave! 3)cn. 耻辱，可耻之事 eg. Shame!/Shame on you!

to one’s shame令某人感到羞耻的是 eg. To my shame, I made a mistake again. shameful adj. 可耻的，让人丢脸的（主语常为物）—shamefully adv. shameless adj. 厚颜无耻的，不要脸的---shamelessly adv. ashamed adj. 丢脸的（主语常为人）

5. hitchhike v. 搭便车旅行hitchhike to sp. 搭车到…eg. Can I hitch to Paris? hitch v. 搭便车hitchhiker n. 搭车者

6. meantime 1)n. 其间 in the meantime 在此期间，与此同时 eg. In the meantime, we studied Lesson 72.

2)adv. =meanwhile eg. I continued watching TV. Meantime, I did some washing.

7. border 1)边界，国界 the French-Spanish border法国-西班牙边界 border land边疆 border line国境线

2）v.和..接壤 eg. Chine borders Vetnam.

8. evade v. 逃避，逃离 evade school=play truant 逃学 evade taxes逃税 evade doing sth.

evasion n. 躲避，逃避 二，词组学习 play truant 逃学

far as I know 顶多（表示到某种程度）

in the meantime 同时 =during that time, meanwhile在这个期间 creep off 爬出来

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