49 The End of a Dream

名称：49 The End of a Dream
内容简介：
新概念英语第二册（英音）
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[ti:The End of a Dream]

[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.