英语专业四级听写训练16：一名称职的领航员

A Qualified Pilot

The captain of a small ship had to go along a rocky coast, but he was unfamiliar with it, so he tried to find a qualified pilot to guide him. He went ashore in one of the small ports, and a local fisherman pretended that he was a pilot because he needed some money. The captain took him on board and asked him where to steer the ship.

After half an hour, the captain began to suspect that the fisheman did not really know what he was doing and where he was going.

“Are you sure you are a qualified pilot?” he asked.

“Oh, yes,” answered the fisheman. “I know every rock on this part of the coast.”

Suddenly there was a terrible crash from under the ship. At once the fisheman added, “And that’s one of them.”