[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（美音）] [ti:The End of a Dream] [by:更多学习内容，请到查字典英语网yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:11.05]How did the dream end? [00:15.15]Tired of sleeping on the floor, [00:18.01]a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed. [00:24.98]For the first time in his life, [00:28.05]he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress. [00:35.22]Because the weather was very hot, [00:38.62]he carried the bed on to the roof of his house. [00:43.36]He slept very well for the first two nights, [00:48.00]but on the third night, a storm blew up. [00:53.12]A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. [01:02.03]The young man did not wake up [01:04.44]until the bed had struck the ground. [01:08.46]Although the bed was smashed to pieces, [01:12.03]the man was miraculously unhurt. [01:16.21]When he woke up, he was still on the mattress. [01:20.84]Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him, [01:25.72]the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house. [01:31.82]After he had put it on the floor, [01:34.56]he promptly went to sleep again.