創(chuàng)新國(guó)際英語(yǔ)教程第三冊(cè) unit12

[00:04.88]4 While you read Home alone [00:13.14]’Home Alone’is one of the biggest box office successes in movie history. [00:19.80]Along with its sequel,’Home Alone 2’, [00:24.56]it grossed over half a billion dollars worldwide. [00:29.91]If you ask me,they’re not particularly funny films. [00:34.87]There’s too much slapstick humour for my liking [00:39.24]-people slipping over or having their faces covered in cream [00:44.80]-but there is something about the films which appeals to a deep-held fantasy [00:50.96]we all had when we were children: [00:55.01]the freedom to escape from our parents and do whatever we wanted. [01:00.68]When I was in my teens,my parents went away for the weekend [01:07.13]leaving me and my sixteen-year-old brother to fend for ourselves. [01:12.49]We immediately rang up all our friends [01:17.66](and our friends rang their friends)and we had a party. [01:23.30]The police came and broke it up at three in the morning [01:28.06]because the neighbours were complaining about the noise. [01:32.32]When we cleared up the following day, [01:36.26]I found hundreds of cigarette burns in the carpet. [01:41.83]Luckily,we had an old piece of the same carpet lying around, [01:48.17]so I got my younger brother to go round the house [01:53.21]and stick little bits in the holes to cover them up. [01:57.89]It actually looked quite good and when my parents got back, [02:02.93]it seemed they didn’t notice a thing and I thogh we were in the clear. [02:08.68]Unfortunately,when my mum came to do the hoovering later in the week, [02:15.52]all the bits we’d put in the holes came unstuck. [02:20.49]She was not very pleased and I was grounded for a week, [02:26.42]while my brother got away with it because he said I’d forced him into it. [02:32.69]Typical!Still,this little story is nothing compared to some of the other [02:39.82]horror stories about kids who have been left’home alone.’ [02:45.85]Terry and Jerry Schneider didn’t just find a few cigarette burns when they came back, [02:52.98]they found their whole house burnt to the ground. [02:58.05]The couple had left their two children,aged twelve and fourteen, [03:04.11]in the house,while they went on a romantic weekend [03:09.47]to Las Vegas to celebrate their wedding anniversary. [03:14.19]The children had bought what they thought were undoor fireworks [03:20.54]and were playing with them. [03:23.89]Unfortunately,the explosive Roman candle they lit was for use outside [03:31.72]and it soon set fire to the sofa, [03:36.08]curtains and carpet in the front room. [03:40.53]By the time the children called the fire brigade half an hour later, [03:45.88]the fire was already completely out of control. [03:50.84]John thomas,a ten-year-old from Yorkshire,an area in the north of England, [03:57.61]was arreted after he shot a dog and terrorised walkers near his home in keighley. [04:04.87]He had taken the gun from a kitchen cupboard [04:10.23]while his parents were out shopping [04:14.30]and had decided to do some shooting practice in some fields nearby. [04:20.55]’I didn’t realise I could kill anything, [04:25.30]I just thought they were pretend bullets,’he explained. [04:30.34]Lamine,a twelve-year-old French boy, [04:35.20]went on a ten-day spending spree at the EuroDisney theme park near paris [04:42.17]with the ten thousand pounds he found lying around in his parent’s home. [04:48.73]As well as treating other children to ice creams,burgers and free rides, [04:55.89]he hired a chauffeur-driven car [05:00.25]and slept in a three hundred-pound-a-night hotel. [05:05.82]Peter Kerry,a schoolboy of fourteen,went halfway round the world [05:12.97]after he stole his father’s passport and credit card. [05:18.22]He had visited three separate countries in twelve days [05:23.97]and spent almost six thousand pounds before he was finally caought: [05:30.53]his credit card was refused after his father cancelled it. [05:35.99]It wasn’t actually the first time it had happened. [05:40.95]Two years earlier he spent a week on his own in Germany. [05:46.51]’I like travelling,’he said. [05:50.59]1 While you read Urban myths [06:03.76]Safety first! [06:08.20]Did you hear about the plane which crashed somewhere in South America [06:13.97]as it was coming in to land? [06:17.31]Apparently,it was fitted with a device [06:22.59]which warns the pilot that he’s approaching the ground [06:27.45]-a Ground Warning Alarm(GWA)system. [06:32.41]Some pilots find this warning irritating,so they switch it off. [06:38.05]When the black box was examned,the crash was blamed on pilot error. [06:44.01]The dicision had been easy to reach.When the plane had been coming in to land, [06:50.17]the GWA had gone off,telling the pilot he was too colse to the ground. [06:56.65]On the tape the pilot can be heard saying, [07:01.51]’Shut up,you stupid machine!’Then you hear the sound of the crash. [07:07.47]Drowned in a drain [07:15.72]A man from Wakefield in Yorkshire [07:19.67]went out one night for a few drinks at his local pub. [07:24.63]He left his car in the street near the pub. [07:29.20]When he decided to go home,he went out to his car, [07:34.24]took out the keys,and then accidentally dropped them down a drain in the road. [07:40.41]He could see the keys down the drain on top of some leaves. [07:46.08]So,he managed to lift the drain cover, [07:50.23]but the keys were too far down for him to reach. [07:55.27]He lay down in order to reach them. [07:59.43]Suddenly,he fell into the drain head first. [08:04.99]Just as he did that,it started to rain heavily. [08:09.74]Nobody heard his cries for help.The next morning he was found drowned, [08:17.19]his head down the drain,his legs sticking up in the air. [08:22.65]What a rat! [08:29.81]Then there was the story of the couple who were in Thailand on holiday. [08:35.08]The morning after they arrived, [08:38.84]they found a thin little cat sitting on their balcony. [08:43.60]They immediately fell in love with it.They cleaned it and fed it. [08:49.55]By the time they were ready to leave,they couldn’t bear to be parted from it. [08:55.48]They arranged for the cat to come home was with them. [09:00.21]Waiting at home was their pet poodle. [09:04.57]The poodle and the cat seemed to get on together very well, [09:09.62]so the couple decided to go out for dinner. [09:13.87]When they got back,they found their sitting room covered in poodle hair [09:19.83]and the dog halfway down the cat’s throat! [09:25.16]it turned out the cat wa not a car,but an enormous Thai water rat! [09:32.29]Sunk by flying cow [09:41.56]A few years ago,the crew of a Japanese fishing boat [09:47.62]were rescued from the wreckage of their boat in the Sea of Japan. [09:52.77]They said theat their boat had been sunk by a cow falling out of the sky. [09:59.85]Nobody believed them. [10:03.51]A few weeks later the Russian Air Force admitted [10:09.15]that the crew of one of their planes had stolen a cow in Siberia [10:15.11]and put it into the plane’s cargo hold. [10:19.68]At 30,000 feet the cow started to run around the plane out of control. [10:27.54]The crew decided there was only one thing they could do. [10:32.69]So,they opened the cargo door and the cow umped out, [10:38.46]landing on top of the Japanese fishing boat.

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