《新版新概念英语第二册(英音)Lesson (46)》歌词

[00:00:01] --- lesson 46 expensive and uncomfortable

[00:00:08] --- first listen and then answer the question.

[00:00:14] --- what did the man in this story do?

[00:00:20] when a plane from london arrived at sydney airport,

[00:00:25] workers began to unload a number of wooden boxes which contained clothing.

[00:00:32] no one could account for the fact that one of the boxes was extremely heavy.

[00:00:41] it suddenly occurred to one of the workers to open up the box.

[00:00:46] he was astonished at what he found.

[00:00:50] a man was lying in the box on top of a pile of woollen goods.

[00:00:56] he was so surprised at being discovered that he did not even try to run away.

[00:01:04] after he was arrested, the man admitted hiding in the box before the plane left london.

[00:01:12] he had had a long and uncomfortable trip, for he had been confined to the wooden box for over eighteen hours.

[00:01:22] the man was ordered to pay $3,500 for the cost of the trip.

[00:01:30] the normal price of a ticket is $2,000!

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