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美国一位男子与他被盗的跑车重新团聚。Bob Russell 最后一次见到他的车是近42年前，盗贼趁他外出时从他位于费城的家里偷走了这辆跑车。他是怎样找回心爱的车？

Bob Russell says he never gave up the search for his beloved 1967 Austin-Healey. One day in 1970, when he was a student in Philadelphia, he came home after a night out with the woman who's now his wife, and realised his car had vanished. Nearly 42 years later Mr Russell was browsing the online marketplace eBay when he spotted something familiar.

All these years he'd kept the car's papers and keys. He searched them out, and saw the vehicle registration number on the website matched the one on the title certificate of his long-lost sports car. He told the police, who tracked the car down to a dealership in Los Angeles, and confirmed it was indeed Bob Russell's Austin-Healey.

Mr Russell said he paid $3,000 for it in 1967 - and it's now worth eight times that much. He says though it wasn't the money that made him to search for it for over four decades - what mattered was the sentimental value it held for him and his wife.

Quiz 听力测试

What is the word mentioned in the report that means disappeared?

Vanished.

Where did Bob Russell see his car being advertised?

He saw it on Ebay which is an online auction website.

How did he identify that the advertised car was the one that he’d lost?

He kept all the paperwork and the car registration number matched the one being sold on the website.

Most cars depreciate in value, does this apply to Bob Russell’s sports car?

No, Bob Russell's Austin-Healey increased in value as it's now a desirable vintage car.

Glossary 词汇表

gave up the search 放弃搜寻

beloved 心爱的

vanished 消失了

browsing 浏览

online marketplace 网上购物市场

registration number 车牌号

long-lost 遗失多年的

dealership 经销商

sentimental 有感情的