全文 11 句（男女对话）· 8 个生词和短语（加粗 + 红色音标 / 词性 / 释义）
作者1. Children who play truant /'truːənt/ n. 逃学的孩子 from school are unimaginative /ˌʌnɪ'mædʒɪnətɪv/ adj. 缺乏想像力的.
作者2. 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.
作者3. They have all been put to shame /ʃeɪm/ n. 惭愧，羞耻 by a boy who, while playing truant, travelled 1,600 miles.
作者4. He hitchhiked /'hɪtʃhaɪkt/ v. 搭便车旅行 to Dover and, towards evening, went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep.
作者5. When he woke up next morning, he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime /'miːntaɪm/ n. 其间, travelled to Calais.
作者6. No one noticed the boy as he crept off.
作者7. From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry /'lɒri/ n. 卡车.
作者8. The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city.
作者9. 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 /'bɔːdə/ n. 边界.
作者10. There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities.
作者11. He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading /ɪ'veɪdɪŋ/ v. 逃避，逃离 school.
作者1. 逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。
作者2. 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。
作者3. 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。
作者4. 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。
作者5. 第二天早上他醒来时，发现船在这段时间已经到了加来。
作者6. 当男孩溜走时，没有一个人注意到他。
作者7. 从那里，他又搭乘一辆卡车到了巴黎。
作者8. 司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，就把他留在了城外。
作者9. 男孩拦下的下一辆车没有像他希望的那样把他带到巴黎市中心，而是把他带到了法西边境的佩皮尼昂。
作者10. 在那里，他被一个警察抓住，之后又被当地警方送回了英国。
作者11. 他确实为成千上万梦想逃学的孩子创下了一项纪录。