[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:The End of a Dream] [by:更多学习内容，请到yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:12.97]How did the dream end? [00:17.51]Tired of sleeping on the floor, [00:20.60]a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed. [00:28.15]For the first time in his life, [00:30.77]he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress. [00:38.51]Because the weather was very hot, [00:41.53]he carried the bed on to the roof of his house. [00:46.17]He slept very well for the first two nights, [00:49.84]but on the third night, a storm blew up. [00:54.60]A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. [01:04.09]The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground. [01:10.78]Although the bed was smashed to pieces, [01:13.59]the man was miraculously unhurt. [01:17.65]When he woke up, he was still on the mattress. [01:22.72]Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him, [01:27.36]the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house. [01:33.82]After he had put it on the floor, he promptly went to sleep again.