《新版新概念英语第二册(英音)Lesson (31)》歌词

[00:00:00] --- lesson 31 success story

[00:00:06] --- first listen and then answer the question.

[00:00:12] --- what was frank's first job?

[00:00:17] yesterday afternoon frank hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man.

[00:00:27] before he retired, frank was the head of a very large business company, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop.

[00:00:39] it was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day.

[00:00:48] he saved money for years and in 1958 he bought a small workshop of his own.

[00:00:58] in his twenties frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes.

[00:01:05] at that time he had two helpers.

[00:01:09] in a few years the small workshop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty-eight people.

[00:01:19] frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success.

[00:01:26] he was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in.

[00:01:32] she wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle!

[00:01:37] --- end