Lesson 46



Expensive and uncomfortable



First listen and then answer the question.



What did the man in this story do?



When a plane from London arrived at Sydney airport,



workers began to unload a number of wooden boxes which contained clothing.



No one could account for the fact that one of the boxes was extremely heavy.



It suddenly occurred to one of the workers to open up the box.



He was astonished at what he found.



A man was lying in the box on top of a pile of woolen goods.



He was so surprised at being discovered that he did not even try to run away.



After he was arrested, the man admitted hiding in the box before the plane left London.



He had had a long and uncomfortable trip,



for he had been confined to the wooden box for over eighteen hours.



The man was ordered to pay $3,500 for the cost of the trip.



The normal price of a ticket is $2,000!




unload  [ˌʌnˈləud]   v. 卸（货）


wooden   [ˈwudn]  adj. 木制的


extremely   [iksˈtri:mli]  adv. 非常，极其


occur  [əˈkə:]   v. 发生


astonish   [əsˈtɔniʃ]  v. 使惊讶


pile  [pail]   n. 堆


woollen   [ˈwulin]  n. 羊毛的


goods  [ɡudz]   n. （常用复数）货物，商品


discover   [disˈkʌvə]  v. 发现


admit  [ədˈmit]   v. 承认


confine   [kənˈfain]  v. 关在（一个狭小的空间里）


normal   [ˈnɔ:məl]  adj. 正常的，通常的