[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:Across the Channel] [by:更多学习内容，请到yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:14.36]What is Debbie going to try to do? [00:20.66]Debbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow. [00:26.69]She is going to set out from the French coast at five o'clock in the morning. [00:33.72]Debbie is only eleven years old and she hopes to set up a new world record. [00:41.28]She is a strong swimmer and many people feel that she is sure to succeed. [00:48.84]Debbie's father will set out with her in a small boat. [00:54.56]Mr. Hart has trained his daughter for years. [00:59.34]Tomorrow he will be watching her anxiously as she swims the long distance to England. [01:07.78]Debbie intends to take short rests every two hours. [01:13.21]She will have something to drink but she will not eat any solid food. [01:19.42]Most of Debbie's school friends will be waiting for her on the English coast. [01:25.55]Among them will be Debbie's mother, who swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.