新概念英语

New Concept English

新概念英语第二册

Lesson 34: Quick Work


新概念英语第二册


How long had the police taken to find his bicycle?

Dan Robinson has been worried all week.

Last Tuesday he received a letter

from the local police.

In the letter he was asked to call at the station.

Dan wondered why

he was wanted by the police,

but he went to the station yesterday

and now he is not worried anymore.

At the station,

he was told by a smiling policeman

that his bicycle had been found.

Five days ago, the policeman told him,

the bicycle was picked up in a small village

four hundred miles away.

It is now being sent to his home by train.

Dan was most surprised

when he heard the news.

He was amused too,

because he never expected

the bicycle to be found.

It was stolen twenty years ago

when Dan was a boy of fifteen!