新概念英语美音版第二册:Lesson 34 Quick work

Lesson 34 Quick work
破案“神速”
First listen and then answer the question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
How long had the police taken to find his bicycle?
Dan Robinson has been worried all week.
丹.鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期。
Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.
上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信，
In the letter he was asked to call at the station.
要他到警察局去一趟。
Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police,
丹奇怪警察为什么找他，
but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore.
但昨天还是去了，结果他不再担心了。
At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found.
在警察局里，一位面带笑容的警察告诉他，他的自行车找到了。
Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.
那位警察对他说，那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的，
It is now being sent to his home by train.
现在正用火车给他运回家来。
Dan was most surprised when he heard the news.
丹听到这个消息后，惊奇万分，
He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found.
但又感到非常好笑，因为他从未指望那辆自行车还能找到。
It was stolen twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
这是20年前丹还是一个15岁的孩子时被人偷走的！