[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:The Record-Holder] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:13.68]Did the boy go where he wanted to? [00:20.00]Children who play truant from school are unimaginative. [00:26.25]A quiet days' fishing, [00:27.70]or eight hours in a cinema seeing the same film over and over again, is usually as far as they get. [00:36.05]They have all been put to shame by a boy who, while playing truant travelled 1, 600 miles. [00:46.04]He hitchhiked to Dover and towards evening [00:49.86]went into a boat to find somewhere to sleep. [00:54.20]When he woke up next morning, [00:57.06]he discovered that the boat had, in the meantime, travelled to Calais. [01:03.79]No one noticed the boy as he crept off. [01:07.62]From there, he hitchhiked to Paris in a lorry. [01:13.00]The driver gave him a few biscuits and a cup of coffee and left him just outside the city. [01:20.57]The next car the boy stopped did not take him into the centre of Paris as he hoped it would, [01:27.53]but to Perpignan on the French-Spanish border. [01:32.02]There he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to England by the local authorities. [01:39.89]He has surely set up a record for the thousands of children who dream of evading school.