新概念英语3概要

A boy played truant and travelled 1,600 miles. After he hitchhiked to Dover, the boy slept in a boat. The next morning he found himself in Calais where a lorry driver gave him a lift and something to eat. On getting off near Paris, he stopped another car which did not take him into Paris, but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. There he was picked up by a policeman and sent home by the local authorities. (78 words)

A boy who played truant travelled 1,600 miles. He hitchhiked to Dover where he slept in a boat, only to find himself in Calais the next morning .After being picked up by a policeman, he was sent home by the local authorities.

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Lesson 23 One man's meat is another man's poisonKey to CompositionA possible answerSnails, snails, snails!The snails had escaped from the paper bag and they were everywhere — on the walls, on the ceiling, on the carpet, and even on the large hall mirror. When we began to look carefully, we found that they were even in coat pockets in the clothes hanging on the clothes hooks in the hall. It was disgusting! Snails move slowly, but it's amazing how far they can travel in a couple of hours!It took Robert and me ages to collect them. He fetched a pair of steps for me and ladders for himself, and we collected them in two buckets. There were snail marks everywhere, too, and it took hours to clear up the mess — remember, there were several dozen of them. Snails may not be fast, but we had been talking for a couple of hours, and they can travel. Even now I am sure we didn't find them all: some are still crawling round Robert's house.The ones that we did not find were lucky! Robert was amused, but I wasn't. He decided to cook the snails and invited me to stay. I said before that I didn't fancy the idea, so I left him to his meal for one. I just couldn't look at the snails and have never been able to face them since then.(220 words)Lesson 24 A skeleton in the cupboardKey to CompositionA possible answerA weekend with SebastianNow that George had explained about the skeleton, I felt better, but I still didn't want to sleep in the room with a skeleton hanging in the cupboard. I asked George to remove him, but he refused. "There's nowhere else to put him, " said George, "so he'll have to stay. ”I couldn't disagree of course, but the moment I lay down to sleep, I knew it was going to be an uncomfortable night. In the end, I decided that 1 would take Sebastian somewhere for the night and bring him back up to my room early in the morning. So I took him out of cupboard and walked around the house with him trying to find somewhere to put him.George's maid was just going to bed as I walked along the landing. She saw Sebastian apparently walking around, screamed and fainted. She had obviously woken Carlton who appeared from his bedroom and, when the girl had regained consciousness, explained ev­erything to her. He accused me of being stupid and sent me and Sebastian back to "our" room where I hung him up in the cupboard again.Imagine my surprise when I picked up one of Carlton's detective stories two years later. There I was, with Sebastian the skeleton, as the main characters in one of his stories for the whole world to read. Still, he didn't use my real name, so I should be glad of that!