The+Man+Who+Escaped（逃亡者）（适合初等水平阅读）.doc

The Man Who Escaped（逃亡者）（适合初等水平阅读） Episode 1 Edward Coke used to be an army officer, but he is in prison now. Every day is exactly the same for him. It is winter now and all the other men get up at six, when it is still cold and dark. They have breakfast at six thirty. Work begins at seven thirty. Some of the men work in the prison factory, where they make mailbags, but Coke often works in the fields outside. The men have lunch at twelve. Lunch lasts an hour and then the men go back to work again. Dinner is at six. Coke usually goes to the prison library after dinner and reads until 9.30. The lights go out at ten. The day is long, hard, and boring and every man has a lot of time to think. They usually think about why they are there. Coke does. He always thinks about two men. One of the men is called Eric Masters. He used to be an army officer, just like Coke. Coke knows that Masters has a lot of money now. The second mans name is Hugo. That is all Coke knows about him. Masters knows where and who Hugo is, but Coke doesnt. Every night Coke lies in bed and thinks about Eric Masters and Hugo. There is another thing he thinks about, too. Escaping. He wants to escape and find Masters, and then the other man. Coke is in prison for something he did not do. Episode 2 It is six oclock on a very cold winter evening. All over England people are sitting down in their living-rooms and are watching the news on television or are listening to it on the radio. There is one very important piece of news this evening. It is this: In the West of England this evening, hundreds of policemen are looking for a man who escaped from Princeville Prison early this morning. The mans name is Edward Coke. He is 30 years old, six feet tall, and has black hair and blue eyes. He is wearing a dark blue prison uniform. The police do not think he can stay free very long. It is only a few degrees above zero and it is snowing. The radio is on in an expensive pub in Soho, in the centre of London. Most