新概念英语第二册课文及翻译

新概念英语第二册课文及翻译私人谈话Lesson1A privateconversationLast weekI went to thetheatre.I had a verygood seat.The playwas veryinteresting.I did not enjoyit.A young man and a youngwomanwere sittingbehind me.They weretalking loudly.I gotvery angry.I could not hear the actors.I turnedround.I looked at the man and thewoman angrily.They did not payany attention.In the end,I could notbear it.I turnedround again.‘I canthear a word!’I said angrily.‘It snone ofyour business,the youngman saidrudely.’This is aJprivate conversation!.上星期我去看戏我的座位很好，戏很有意思，但我却无法欣赏一青年男子与一青年女子坐在我的身后，大声地说着话我非常生气,因为我听不见演员在说什么我回过头去怒视着那一男一女，他们却毫不理会最后，我忍不住了，又一次回过头去，生气地说“我一个字也听不见了！”“不关你的事，”那男的毫不客气地说，“这是私人间的谈话！”早餐还是午餐？Lesson2Breakfast orlunchborrowed anymoney fromyou,Harry said,so nowyou canpay for mydinner!我正在一家饭馆吃饭，走了进来曾在一家律师事务所工作，XX.XX XX而现在正在一家银行上班他的薪水很高，但他却总是向朋友借钱，并且从来不还看见了我，就走过来和我坐到一张桌子前他从未向我借过钱当他XX吃饭时，我提出向他借英镑令我惊奇的是，他立刻把钱给了我“我还从20未向你借过钱，说道，“所以现在你可以替我付饭钱了！”xx再见，一路顺风Lesson12Goodbye andgood luckOurneighbor,Captain CharlesAlison,will sailfrom Portsmouthtomorrow.We shallmeet him at theharbour earlyin the morning.He willbein hissmall boat;Topsail.Tapsail is a famouslittle boat.It hassailedacross the Atlantic many times.Captain Alisonwill setout ateighto clockso weshall haveplenty oftime.We shallsee hisboat and thenwe shallsay good-bye to him.He will be awayfor two months.We areveryproud ofhim.He willtake partin animportant raceacross theAtlantic.我们的邻居船长明天就要从朴次茅斯启航了明天一大早XX.XX我们将在码头为他送行他将乘坐他的波赛”号小艇波“XX“XXOf courseI do,answered the man.I must be at work at

510.0oclock.My employerwill confirmthat I was thereon time.Would a later trainget you to work on time’asked theinspector.JI supposeit would,but I never catchalatertrain.At whattime didyou arrive at the station’At tento eight.I bought a paperand waitedfor thetrain.’And youdidnt noticeanything unusual’Of coursenot.’I suggest,said theinspector,that you are not telling thetruth.I suggestthat youdid notcatch the

8.0o clocktrain,but thatyoucaught the

8.25which wouldstill getyou to work ontime.You see,onthe morningof themurder,the

8.0o clocktrain did not runat all.5It broke down atFerngreen station and wastaken off the line.“在凶杀发生的时候，我正坐在点钟开往的火车上”那8xx人说“您总是赶这样早的火车？”探长问“当然是的，”那人回答“我必须在点钟上班，我的雇主会证明我10是按时到了那儿的”“晚一点儿的车也能送您按时上班吗？”“我认为可以，但我从来不乘晚一点儿的车”“您几点钟到的火车站？”点分我买了报纸，等着车来”“750xx“您没有注意到有什么异常情况发生吗？”“当然没有”“我提醒您，”探长说，“您讲的不是实话您乘的不是点钟的火车，8而是点分的，这次车同样能使您按时上班您看，在凶杀发生的那天早晨，825点钟的那次车根本没有发它在车站出了故障而被取消了”8xxxx困在矿井里Lesson88Trapped in a mineSixmen have been trappedin amine forseventeen hours.If they arenot broughtto thesurface soon they maylose theirlives.However,rescueoperations areproving difficult.If explosivesare used,vibrations willcausethe roof of the mine tocollapse.Rescue workersare thereforedrillinga holeonthe northside of the mine.They intendto bringthe menup in a specialcapsule.If therehad not been ahard layerof rockbeneath thesoil,theywould have completed thejob in a fewhours.As it is,they have beendrilling for sixteen hoursand theystill have a longway to go.Meanwhile,a microphone,which waslowered into theminetwo hoursago,has enabledthe men to keep intouch with the closestrelatives.Though theyarerunning out of foodand drink,themenare cheerfuland confidentthatthey willget outsoon.They have been told that rescueoperations areprogressingsmoothly.If they knew howdifficult it was todrill throughthehard rock,they wouldlose heart.个人被困在矿井里已有个小时了如果不把他们尽快救到地面上来，617他们就有可能丧生然而，事实证明营救工作非常困难如果用炸药爆破，震动会引起矿顶塌落因此，营救人员在矿井的北侧钻了一个洞他们准备用一种特制的容器把这个人救上来如果不是因为土壤下面有一层坚硬的岩石，6他们的营救工作仅用几个小时就可以完成了实际情况是，他们已连续钻了16个小时了，但离钻透还早着呢与此同时，两个小时以前放下井去的一只使xx井下的人可以与其亲属保持联系虽然他们的食物和饮料都快消耗尽了，但这些人的心情很好，坚信他们很快就会出去他们一直被告知营救工作进行得非常顺利如果他们知道了钻透那坚硬的岩石有多么困难,他们会丧失信心的口误Lesson89A slipof thetongue一一People willdo anythingto seea freeshow evenif it is a badone.When the news gotround that a varietyshow would be presentedatour localcinema by the P.and U.Bird SeedCompany,we allrushed to seeit.We had to queuefor hoursto getin and there must have beenseveralhundred peoplepresent justbe-fore theshow began.Unfortunately,theshow wasone of the dullestwe have ever seen.Those whofailed to getin neednot havefelt disappointedas many of theartistes whoshould haveappeareddid notcome.The onlyfunny thingswe heardthat eveningcamefrom theadvertiser at the beginningof theprogramme.He wasobviouslyvery nervousand for some minutesstood awkwardlybefore themicrophone.As soonas heopened hismouth,everyone burstout laughing.We allknowwhat thepoor manshould havesaid,but what he actuallysaid was:Thisis thePoo andEe SeedBird Company.Good ladies,evening andgentlemen!’人们总要想尽办法看不花钱的演出一一哪怕是拙劣的演出当鸟食公司将在我们当地影院演出喜剧节目的消息传开后，我们都赶紧跑去“XX”观看我们不得不排了好几个小时才进得场去在演出开始前场内肯定已有好几百人了不幸的是，这次演出是我们看过的最乏味的演出了那些没能进到场内的人没有必要感到失望，因为很多应该出场的专业演员都没有来那天晚上唯一有趣的事情是节目开始时那个报幕员的开场白他显然非常紧张，局促不安地在前站了好几分钟但他刚一开口说话，人们便哄堂大笑起来我们XX都那个可怜的人应该说些什么，而他实际说的却是“这是鸟食公司，，XX‘XX好女士们，晚上和先生们！”晚餐吃什么？lesson90Whats forsupper ThoughBrazil isone of the richestcountries in the world,much ofit has notyet beendeveloped.It wasmainly forthis reasonthat theBraziliangovernment decided to have a newcity built600miles north-westof Riode Janeiro.Designed by the great architect LucioCosta,the newcity,Brasilia,replaced Riode Janeiroas the capital ofBraz ifin

1960.Brasilia has been carefullyplanned for modern living.Its wideroads,which cantake fourteenlanes oftraffic,have beenkeptaway fromliving areas.Children do not have to crossbusystreets to go to school.Housewives canvisit-shopping centreson foot,for in these speciallydesigned livingareas,cars areunnecessary.Atfirst,the governmenthad great difficulty inpersuading peopleto leaveRioand to settle inBrasilia.Since1960,however,the populationhasbeen growingall the time.Brasilia has quickly establisheditself asthecapital of the country.The ideato have the capitalmoved sofar inlandwill have a great effecton thefuture ofBrazil.油煎炸土豆片一直是英国人喜爱的一道菜，但是随着里的滥捕滥捞，XX XX鱼已经变得越来越昂贵因此，听说石油钻井平台上的潜水员受到巨型鱼类XX的恐吓，确实很让人吃惊钻井平台需要经常修理，潜水员常常要在水面100英尺以下摸黑工作，他们曾在工作时被撞到他们身上的大鱼吓得惊惶失措现在他们有了特制的笼子，用来保护他们免受大鱼的侵袭这些鱼并不是鲨鱼或逆戟鲸，而是深受人们喜爱的食用鱼品种，如鱼雪鱼和鲸鱼，只不过它们长得出奇地大,有时英尺这些鱼能长得这么大是由个因素造成的海底热的xxl23输油管道附近的温暖的海水；钻井平台工作人员抛到海里充足的食物；钻井平台周围根本没有捕鱼船只结果是，这些鱼就在可爱的温暖的水流中吃呀吃，长呀长究竟谁吃谁呢？三人同篮Lesson91Three menin abasketA pilotnoticed aballoon whichseemed to be makingfor aRoyal AirForceStation nearby.He informedthe stationat once,but no one therewas able to explain themystery.The officerin thecontrol towerwas veryangrywhen he heard the news,because balloonscan bea greatdanger toaircraft.He said that someonemight byspying on the stationand the pilotwas orderedtokeeptrack of the strangeobject.The pilotmanaged tocirclethe balloonfor some time.He couldmake outthree menin abasketunder itand one of themwas holdingfield-glasses.When the balloon wasover thestation,thepilotsaw one of themen takingphotographs.Soonafterwards,the balloonbegan to descend and it landednear an airfield.The policewere calledin,but theycould notarrest anyone,for thebasketcontained twoMembers of Parliament and the Commanding Officer of thestation!As theCommandingOfficerexplained later,one halfof thestationdid not know what the otherhalf wasdoing!一个飞行员发现了一只气球，它像是正飞往附近的一个皇家空军基地他马上把情况报告了该基地，但那里的人没有一个能解释这到底是怎么回事控制塔上的官员得知这一消息后，非常气愤，因为气球有可能给飞机造成极大的危险他说可能有人正对基地进行侦察,因此命令那个飞行员跟踪那个奇怪的飞行物飞行员设法绕着气球飞了一阵他看清了气球下面有个人呆在一只筐里，其中一个举着当气球飞临基地3xxo上空时，飞行员看见有一个人在拍照不久，气球开始降落，在一个停机坪附近着了警察被召来了，但他们却不能逮捕任何人，因为筐里是两名国会议XX员和一名基地的指挥官！正如指挥官后来解释的那样，基地的这半边不知道那半边正在干什么！自找麻烦Lesson92Asking fortroubleIt must have been about twoin the morning when I returned home.Itried towake upmy wifeby ringingthe door-bell,but she was fastasleep,so I got aladder from the shedin the garden,put it against the wall,and beganclimbing towards the bedroomwindow.I was almost therewhena sarcasticvoice belowsaid,‘I dontthink the windows needcleaningat this time of the night.I lookeddown andnearly felloff theladder when I sawa policeman.I immediatelyregretted answeringin the way I did,but I said,I enjoycleaningwindows at night.’So doI,answered the policeman in the same tone.Excuse myhesinterrupting you.I hateto interrupta manwhen busyworking,butwould youmind coming with me to thestation’Well,r dprefer to stay here,I said.’You see,Ive forgottenmykey.’Your what’he called.My key,I shouted.Fortunately,the shoutingwoke upmy wifewho openedthe windowjustas the policeman hadstarted to climb towards me.我回到家时，肯定已是凌晨两点左右了我按响了门铃，试图唤醒我的妻子，但她睡得很熟于是，我从花园的小棚里搬来了一个梯子，把它靠在墙边，开始向卧室的窗口爬去快要爬到窗口时，下面一个人用讽刺的口吻说“我看不必在夜里这个时候擦窗子吧我向下面看去当我看清是一个警察时，差一点儿从梯子上掉下去我回答了他的话，但马上又后悔不该那样说，我是这样说的“我喜欢在夜里擦窗子”“我也是的，”警察用同样的声调回答，“请原谅我打断了您当一个人在忙着干活时，我是不愿意去打断他的，但请您跟我到警察局去一趟好吗？”“可我更愿意呆在这儿，”我说，“您瞧，我忘带钥匙了”“什么？”他大声问“钥匙！”我喊道幸运得很，这喊声惊醒了我的妻子就在警察开始向我爬上来时，她打开了窗子崇高的礼物Lesson93A noblegiftOne of the most famous monumentsin the world,the Statueof Liberty,was presented to the United Statesof Americain the nineteenth centurybythe peopleof France.The greatstatue,which wasdesigned bythesculptor AugusteBartholdi,took tenyears tocomplete.The actualfigurewas madeof coppersupported by a metalframework which had beenespeciallyconstructed byEiffel.Before it could betransported to theUnitedStates,a sitehad to be foundfor itand apedestal hadto bebuilt.The sitechosenwas anisland at the entranceof New York Harbour.By1884,a statuewhich was151feet tall,had beenerected inParis.The followingyear,it wastaken topieces and sent toAmerica.By the end ofOctober1886,赛”号是the statuehad beenput togetheragain and it wasofficially艘有名的小艇，它已经多次横渡船长将于点钟启航，因此我们有充裕XX XX8的时间我们将参观他的船，然后和他告别他要离开两个月，我们真为他感到自豪，他将参加一次重大的横渡的比赛xx绿林少年Lesson13The GreenwoodBoysThe GreenwoodBoys area groupof popularsingers.At present,theyare visitingall parts of the country.They will be arrivinghere tomorrow.They will be comingby train and most of theyoungpeople in the townwill bemeeting them at thestation.Tomorrowevening they will besinging at the WorkersClub.The GreenwoodBoys willbe staying forfive days.During this time,they willgive fiveperformances.As usual,the policewill havea difficulttime.They willbetrying tokeep order.It isalways the same on these occasions.“绿林少年”是一个流行歌曲演唱团目前他们正在全国各地巡回演出，明天就要到达此地他们将乘火车来，镇上的大部分青年人将到车站迎接他们明晚他们将在工人俱乐部演出“绿林少年”准备在此逗留天在此期间，5他们将演出场同往常一样，警察的日子将不好过，他们将设法维持秩序5每逢这种场合，情况都是这样presentedto the Americanpeople byBartholdi.Ever sincethen,the greatmonumenthas beena symbolof libertyfor themillions of people who havepassed throughNewYorkHarbour to make theirhomes inAmerica.世界上最著名的纪念碑之一的自由女神雕像是在世纪时由人民赠送19xx给的这座由雕像家奥古斯特.地设计的巨大雕像是用年时间雕像xx xxxx10刻成的这座雕像的主体是用铜制成的，由特制的金属框架支撑着在雕像xx被运往之前，必须为它选好一块场地，同时必须建造一个基座场地选在了xx入口处的一个鸟上到年，一座高度达英尺的雕像在黎竖立起xx1884151xx来了第二年,它被拆成若干小块，运到到年月底，这座雕像被xx188610重新组装起来，由地正式赠送给人民从那时起，这座伟大的纪念碑xxxx xx对通过进入定居的千百万人来说就一直是自由的象征xx xx未来的冠军Lesson94Future championsExperimentshave provedthat childrencan beinstructed inswimmingat a very earlyage.At a special swimming pool inLos Angeles,childrenbecome expertat holdingtheir breathunder watereven before they canwalk.Babies oftwomonthsold donot appeartobereluctant toenter thewater,It isnot longbefore theyare soaccustomed to swimming that theycan pickupweights from the floorof thepool.A game that is very popularwiththese youngswimmers is the underwatertricycle race.Tricycles arelinedup on the floorof thepool sevenfeet underwater.The childrencompeteagainst eachother toreach the other end of thepool.Many pedaltheirtricycles,but mostof themprefer topush ordrag them.Some childrencancover the whole length of thepool withoutcoming up for breathevenonce.Whether they will everbecome futureOlympic champions,only timewilltell.Meanwhile,they shouldencourage thoseamong uswho cannotswimfive yardsbefore theyare gaspingfor air.实验证明，儿童在很小的时候就可以开始学习游泳在的一个特设的XX游泳池里，孩子们甚至在还没有学会走路时就已经能熟练地在水下屏住呼吸了两个月的婴儿并未显得不愿意入水他们很快便适应了游泳，以致能捡起池底的物品这些幼小的游泳运动员非常喜爱的一种游戏是水下三轮车比赛三轮车并排放在英尺深的游泳池底上孩子们比赛看谁先到达游泳池的另一端7很多孩子用脚蹬车,但多数孩子更愿意推或是拉着三轮车有些孩子能够跑完游泳池的全长而不用露出水面换气他们将来是否能成为奥林匹克的冠军，这只能由时间来作出回答与此同时，他们对我们中的那些游不了码就已喘不过气5来的人应该是种鼓舞纯属虚构Lesson95A fantasyWhen the Ambassadorof Escalopiareturned home for lunch,his wifegota shock.He lookedpale andhis clotheswere in a frightfulstate.What hashappened’she asked.How didyour clothesget intosuch amess’JA fire-extinguisher,my dear,answered theAmbassador drily.・，University studentsset theEmbassy on fire thismorning.JGood heavens!exclaimed his wife.’And wherewere youat thetime’I was in myoffice asusual,answered theAmbassador.’The firebrokeout in the basement.I wentdown immediately,of course,and thatfool,Horst,aimed a fire-extinguisher atme.He thoughtI wasonfire.I mustdefinitely getthat fellowposted.’The Ambassadorswife wenton askingquestions,when shesuddenlynoticed a big holein herhusbands hat.’And howcan youexplain that’she asked.JOh,that,said theAmbassador.’Someone fireda shotthrough my，office window.Accurate,dont youthinkFortunately,I wasnt wearingitat thetime.If I had been,I wouldnot have been able to gethome forlunch.’当国的大使回到家吃午饭时，把他的夫人吓了一跳他面色苍白，xxxxxx衣服也搞得不成样子“发生了什么事？她问，“你的衣服怎么搞得一塌糊涂？”“灭火器弄的，亲爱的，”大使冷冷地回答，“今天上午大学生们放火点着了大使馆”“天啊！”他的夫人惊叫，“那你当时在什么地方？”“我和往常一样，在办公室里，”大使回答说“地下室突然着火，我当然马上下去了但那个傻瓜把灭火器对准了我他认为是我着火了我一xx定要把那个家伙打发走”大使夫人继续提出问题，她突然又发现丈夫的帽子上有个洞“那么你对那又作何解释呢？她问“那个嘛，”大使说，“有人向我办公室窗户开了一枪真够准的，是不是？幸亏我当时没如果真戴着它，我现在就不能回家来吃午饭了”XX亡灵返乡Lesson96The deadreturnA Festivalfor theDead isheld once a yearin Japan.This festivalisa cheerfuloccasion,for onthis day,the deadare saidto return totheir homesand theyare welcomedbytheliving.As theyare expected tobe hungryafter theirlong journey,food islaid out for them.Specially-made lanternsare hungoutside eachhouse tohelp the dead tofindtheir way.All nightlong,people danceand sing.In theearly morning,the foodthat had been laidoutfor thedeadis throwninto a river orinto the seaas it is consideredunlucky for anyone livingto eat it.Intowns that are near the sea,the tinylanterns whichhad beenhung in thestreets the night before,are placedinto the water when the festivalisover.Thousands oflanterns slowlydrift out to seaguiding thedead ontheirreturn journeyto the other world.This isa movingspectacle,forcrowds ofpeople stand on the shore watchingthe lanternsdrifting awayuntil they can be seenno more.每年过一次“亡灵节”这个节日是个欢乐的日子，因为在这一天，据XX说死去的人要回到他们的家里来，活着的人则对他们表示欢迎因为预料到他们在经过长途旅行之后会感到饥饿，所以为他们摆放好了食品特制的灯笼挂在各家的门外，为的是帮助亡灵看清道路整个夜晚人们载歌载舞一大早，人们便把为死者摆放的食品扔进或海里，因为人们认为活着的人吃了这些XX是不的在靠海的中，头天夜里挂在大街小巷的小灯笼在节后就放在XX XX XX了水里成千上万只灯笼慢慢漂向指引着亡灵返回另一个世界这是一个感人的场XX,面，人们成群地伫立在海岸上，注视着灯笼远去，直到再也看不见为止你会讲英语吗？Lesson14Do youspeak EnglishI had anamusing experiencelast year.After I had lefta smallvillagein thesouth ofFrance,I droveon to the next town.On theway,a youngmanwaved to me.I stoppedand he asked mefor alift.As soonas he hadgot into the car,I saidgood morningto him in Frenchand hereplied inthe same language.Apart from a fewwords,I donot knowany Frenchat all.Neither ofus spokeduring thejourney.I had nearly reachedthe town,whenthe youngman suddenlysaid,very slowly,Do youspeak English’As Isoonlearnt,he wasEnglish himself!去年我有过一次有趣的经历在离开南部的一个小村庄后，我继续驶往XX下一个途中，一个青年人向我招手我把车停下，他向我提出要求搭车XX他一上车，我就用法语向他问早上好，他也同样用法语回答我除了个别几个单词外，我根本不会法语旅途中我们谁也没讲话就要到达那个镇时，那青年突然开了口，慢慢地说道“你会讲英语吗？”我很快了解到，他自己就是个英国人！佳音Lesson15Good newsThesecretary told me thatMr.Harmsworth wouldsee me.I felt verynervous when.I went into hisoffice.He did not look up fromhis deskwhenI entered.After I had sat down,he said that businesswas verybad.Hetold methat thefirm could not affordto paysuch largesalaries.Twenty5people had already left.I knew that myturn had come.Mr.Harmsworth,JI saidin aweak voice.’Dont interrupt,he said.Then he smiled andtoldme Iwould receive an extra thousand poundsa year!秘书告诉我说哈姆先生要见我我走进他的办公室，感到非常紧张我XX进去的时候，他连头也没抬待我坐下后，他说生意非常不景气他还告诉我，公司支付不起这么庞大的工资开支，有个人已经离去我知道这次该轮到我20了“哈姆先生，”我无力地说xx“不要打断我的话，”他说然后他微笑了一下告诉我说，我每年将得到英镑的额外收入1,000彬彬有礼的要求Lesson16A politerequestIf youpark yourcar in the wrongplace,a trafficpolicemanwill soonfind it.You will be verylucky if he letsyou gowithout a ticket.However,this does not alwayshappen.Traffic policeare sometimesverypolite.During aholiday inSweden,I foundthis noteon mycar:Sir,we〃welcome you to ourcity.This isa NoParking area.You willenjoy yourstayhere if you payattention toour streetsigns.This noteis only areminder.If youreceivearequest likethis,you cannotfail toobeyit!一旦你把汽车停错了地方，交通警很快就会发现如果他没给你罚单就放你走了，算你走运然而，情况并不都是这样，交通警有时也很客气有一次在度假，我发现我的车上有这样一个字条“先生，欢迎您光临我们的此XX XX处是‘禁止停车区如果您对我们街上的标牌稍加注意，您在此会过得很愉快的谨此提请注意”如果你收到这样的恳求，你是不会不遵照执行的！青年常驻Lesson17Always youngMyaunt Jenniferis anactress.She must be atleast thirty-five yearsold.In spiteof this,she oftenappears on the stageas a young girl.Jennifer will have to take partin a new playsoon.This time,she willbea girlof seventeen.In theplay,she mustappear in a brightred dressandlong blackstockings.Last yearin anotherplay,she hadto wearshortsocks and a bright,orange-coloured dress.If anyoneever askedher howoldshe is,she alwaysanswers,My dear,it mustbe terribletobegrownup!’我的姑姑是位演员，她至少也有岁了尽管如此，她却常在舞台上XX35扮演很快又要参加一个新剧的演出这一次，她将扮演一个岁的少女xx xx17演出时她必须穿一条鲜红色的裙子和黑色的长筒袜去年在演另一个剧时，她不得不穿短袜和一件鲜艳的橘红色的衣服一旦有人问起她有多大年纪，她总是回答“亲爱的，长成大人真可怕啊！”他经常干这种事！Lessonl8He oftendoes this!After I had hadlunch at a villageinn,I lookedformy bag.I hadleftit ona chairbeside the door and now it wasnt there!As I was lookingfor it,the inn-keeper came in.’Did you havea good meal’he asked.’Yes,」canthank youI answered,but It paythe bill.I haventgot mybag.The inn-keeper smiledand immediatelywent out.In a few minuteshe returnedwith mybagand gaveit back tome.’Im verysorry,he saidMy dogJhadtaken it into the garden.He oftendoes this.我在一家乡村小酒店吃过午饭后，就找我的提包我曾把它放在门边的椅子上，可这会儿不见了！当我正在寻找时，酒店老板走了进来“您吃得好吗？”他问“很好，”我回答，“但我付不了帐，我的提包没有了”XX酒店老板笑了笑，马上走了出去一会儿工夫他拿着我的提包回来了，把它还给了我“实在抱歉，”他说，“我的狗把它弄到去了，他常干这种事！”xx票已售完Lessonl9Sold outTheplay maybegin at any moment,I said.5It mayhave begun already,Susan answered.I hurried to the ticket-office.’May I have two tickets please’I asked.‘Im sorry,weve soldout,the girlsaid.What apity!’Susan exclaimed.Just then,a manhurriedto theticket-office.Can Ireturn thesetwo tickets’he asked.JCertainly,the girlsaid.Could I have thosetwoticketsplease’I asked.JCertainly,the girlsaid,but theyare fornext Wednesdaysperformance.I mightas wellhave them,I saidsadly.“剧马上就要开演了，我说“也许已经开演了呢，回答说XX我匆匆赶到售票处，问“我可以买两张票吗？”“对不起，票已售完”那位姑娘说“真可惜！大声说XX正在这时，一个男子匆匆奔向售票处“我可以退掉这两张票吗？他问“当然可以，”那姑娘说我马上又回到售票处“我可以买那两张票吗？我问“当然可以，不过这两张票是下星期三的，您是否还要呢？”“我还是买下的好，”我垂头丧气地说独坐Lesson20One man in a boat xxFishingis myfavorite sport.I oftenfish forhours withoutcatchinganything.But thisdoes notworry me.Some fishermenare unlucky.Insteadof catchingfish,they catchold bootsand rubbish.I ameven lesslucky.I nevercatch anything-not evenold boots.After havingspent wholemorningson the river,I alwaysgo homewith anempty bag.’You mustgive5up fishing!my friendssay.‘Its awaste oftime.But theydont realizeoneimportant thing.Im notreally interestedin fishing.I amonlyinterested insitting in aboatand doingnothing at all!钓鱼是我特别喜爱的一项运动我经常一钓数小时却一无所获,但我从不为此烦恼有些垂钓者就是不走运，他们往往鱼钓不到，却钓上来些旧靴子和垃圾我的运气甚至还不及他们我什么也未钓到过一就连旧靴子也没有我总是xx在河上呆上整整一上午，然后空着袋子回家“你可别再钓鱼了！”我的朋友们说，“这是浪费时间”然而他们没有认识到重要的一点，我并不是真的对钓鱼有兴趣,我感兴趣的只是独坐无所事事！xx,是不是疯了？Lesson21Mad ornotAeroplanes areslowly drivingme mad.I livenear an airport andpassing planes canbe heardnight andday.The airportwas builtduringthe war,but forsome reason itcouldnotbeused then.Last year,however,it came into use.Over ahundred peoplemust have been drivenaway fromtheirhomes bythe noise.I amone of the fewpeople left.Sometimes I thinkthis housewill beknocked down by apassingplane.I havebeen offereda large sum of moneyto goaway,but I am determinedto stayhere.Everybodysays Imustbemad and theyareprobably right.飞机正在逐渐把我逼疯我住在一个机场附近，过往飞机日夜不绝于耳机场是许多年前建的，但由于某种原因当时未能启用然而去年机场开始使用了有多人肯定是被噪音逼得已经弃家远去,我是少数留下来的人中的一个有100时我觉得这房子就要被一架飞过的飞机撞倒他们曾向我提供一大笔钱让我搬走，但我决定留在这儿大家都说我肯定是疯了，也许他们说的是对的玻璃信封Lesson22A glassenvelopeMy daughter,Jane,never dreamedof receivinga letter froma girlof herown agein Holland.Last year,we weretravellingIt wasSunday.I neverget up early onSundays.I sometimesstay inbeduntil lunchtime.Last Sunday I gotup verylate.I lookedout of the window.It wasdarkoutside.What a day!’I thought.‘Its rainingagain.’Just then,theJtelephone rang.It wasmy auntLucy.Ive justarrived by train,sheJ Jsaid.’Im coming to see you.But Imstill having breakfast,I said.JWhat are you doing’she asked.T mhavingbreakfast,I repeated.jDear me,she said.’Do youalways getup solate Itsoneo5clock!’那是个星期天，而在星期天我是从来不早起的，有时我要一直躺到吃午饭的时候上个星期天，我起得很晚我望望窗外，外面一片昏暗“鬼天气！”我想，“又下雨了”正在这时，电话铃响了是我姑母露西打来的“我刚下火车，”她说，“我这就来看你”“但我还在吃早饭，”我说“你在干什么？她问道“我正在吃早饭，”我又说了一遍across the Channel andJane put apiece ofpaper withher name and addressonit into abottle.Shethrew thebottle into the sea.She neverthought of itagain,butten monthslater,she receiveda letterfrom agirl inHolland.Bothgirls writeto eachother regularlynow.However,they have decidedto usethe post-office.Letters willcost a little more,but theywillcertainly travelfaster.我的女儿简从未想过会接到一位同龄姑娘的来信去年，当我们横渡英XX吉利海峡时，简把写有她姓名和住址的一张纸条装进了一只瓶子，又将瓶子扔进了此后她就再没去想那只瓶子但个月以后，她收到了一位姑娘的XX10XX来信现在这两位姑娘定期通信了然而她们还是决定利用邮局这样会稍微多花点钱，但肯定是快得多了新居Lesson23A new houseI had a letterfrom my sister yesterday.She livesin Nigeria.In herletter,she saidthat she would cometo Englandnext year.If she comes,she willget asurprise.We arenow livingin abeautiful newhouse in thecountry.Work onit hadbegun beforemy sisterleft.The house was completedfivemonths ago.In myletter,I toldher that she couldstay withus.Thehouse hasmany largerooms and there isa lovelygarden.It isa verymodernhouse,so itlooks strangeto some people.It mustbe the only modernhousein thedistrict.昨天我收到了姐姐的一封信，她住在尼日利亚在信中她说她明年将到XX来如果她来了，她会感到非常惊奇了我们现在住在乡间的一栋漂亮的新住宅里这栋房子在我姐姐离开之前就已动工了，是在个月以前竣工的我在信中5告诉她，她可以和我们住在一起这栋房子里有许多房间，还有一个漂亮的花园它是一栋非常现代化的住宅，因此在有些人看来很古怪它肯定是这个地区唯一的一栋现代化住宅不幸中之Lesson24It couldbe worsexx5I enteredthe hotelmanager soffice and sat down.I had just lost$50and Ifelt veryupset.’I leftthe moneyin my room,I said,andits notthere now.’The managerwas sympathetic,but he could donothing.’Everyones losingmoney thesedays,he said.He startedtocomplain aboutthis wickedworld butwas interruptedby aknock at the door.A girlcame in and putan envelopeon hisdesk.It contained$5o.’I foundthisoutside thisgentlemans roomshe said.’Well,I saidto the manager,Jthere is still somehonesty in this world!’我走进饭店经理的办公室，坐了下来我刚刚丢了英镑，感到非常烦恼50“我把钱放在房间里，”我说，“可现在没有了”经理深表同情，但却无能为力“现在大家都在丢钱，”他说他开始抱怨起这个邪恶的世道来，却被一阵敲门声打断了一个姑娘走了进来，把一个信封放在了他桌上它里面装着50英镑“这是我在这位先生的房门外捡到的，”她说“是啊，”我对那位经理说，“这世界上还是有诚实可言的！”英国人讲的是英语吗？Lesson25Do the English speakEnglishI arrived in Londonat last.The railwaystation wasbig,black anddark.Idid notknow theway to myhotel,so I asked aporter.I not onlyspoke Englishvery carefully,but veryclearly as well.The porter,however,couldnot understand me;I repeatedmy questionseveral timesand at lasthe understood.He answeredme,but hespoke neitherslowly norclearly.’JI ama foreigner,I said.Then hespoke slowly,but I couldnotunderstandhim.My teachernever spokeEnglish likethat!The porterand I looked ateachother andsmiled.Then he said somethingand Iunderstood it.’YouJ11soon learnEnglish!he said.I wonder.In England,each manspeaks adifferentlanguage.The Englishunderstand eachother,but Idont understand them!Do theyspeakEnglish我终于到了火车站很大，又黑又暗我不知道去饭店的路该怎么走，XX于是向一个搬运工打听我的英语讲得不但非常认真，而且咬字也非常清楚然而搬运工却不我的话我把问话重复了很多遍他终于听懂了他回答了，XX但他讲得既不慢也不清楚“我是个外国人，”我说于是他说得慢了，可我还是听不懂我的老师从来不那样讲英语！我和搬运工相视一笑接着，他说了点什么，这回我听懂了“您会很快学会英语的！他说我感到奇怪在人xx,们各自说着一种不同的语言人之间相互听得懂，可我却不懂他们的话！他xx们说的是英语吗？最佳美术评论家lesson26The bestart criticsI am anart studentand Ipaint a lot ofpictures.Many peoplepretendthat theyunderstand modernart.They alwaystell youwhat apicture isabout’.Of course,many picturesarc notabout anything.They arejustpretty patterns.We likethem in thesameway that we likepretty curtainmaterial.Ithinkthat youngchildren oftenappreciate modernpicturesbetter than anyone else.They noticemore.My sisteris onlyseven,butshe alwaystells me whether mypictures aregood ornot.She came into myroom yesterday.’What areyou doing’she asked.’JV mhanging thispicture on thewall,I answered.‘Its a new one.Doyou like it’She lookedat itcritically for a moment.Its allright,isn she said,but tit upside-down’Ilookedat itagain.She wasright!It was!我是个学艺术的学生，画了很多画有很多人装成很懂现代艺术的样子，总是告诉你一幅画的“意思”是什么当然，有很多画是什么“意思”也没有的它们就是些好看的图案，我们喜爱它们就像我们喜欢漂亮的窗帘布一样我觉得小孩子们往往比任何人都更能欣赏现代绘画，他们观察到的更多我的妹妹XX只有岁，但她总能说出我的画是好还是坏昨天她到我房里来了7雨夜Lesson27A wetnightLate in the afternoon,the boysput up their tentin the middle ofafield.As soonas this was done,they cookeda mealover anopen fire.They wereall hungryand the food smeltgood.After a wonderful meal,theytold storiesand sangsongs bythe campfire.But sometime laterit beganto rain.The boysfelt tiredso theypet out the fireand creptinto theirtent.Their sleeping-bags werewarm andcomfortable,so theyall sleptsoundly.In themiddle of the night,two boyswoke up and beganshouting.The tentwas full of water!They allleapt out of their sleeping-bags andhurriedoutside.It wasraining heavilyand theyfound that a streamhadformed in the field.The streamwound itsway across the fieldand thenflowedright under their tent!傍晚时分，孩子们在中央搭起了帐篷这件事刚刚做完，他们就在篝火XX上烧起了饭他们全都饿了，饭菜散发出阵阵香味他们地吃了一顿饭后，XX就围在营火旁讲起了故事，唱起了歌但过了一阵子天下起雨来，于是他们扑灭了篝火，钻进了帐篷睡袋既暖和又舒服，所以，他们都睡得很香午夜前后，有两个孩子醒了，大声叫了起来原来帐篷里到处都是水!他们全都跳出睡袋，跑到外面雨下得很大，他们发现地上已经形成了一条那弯弯曲曲穿过XX XX然后正好从他们的帐篷底下流过去XX,禁止停车Lesson28No parkingJasperWhite isone of those rarepeople whobelieves in ancient myths.He has just boughtanewhouse in the city,but eversince hemoved in,he hashad troublewith motorists,when hereturns home atnight,he alwaysfindsthat someonehas parkeda caroutside hisgate.Because of this,hehas notbeen able to gethis owncar intohis garageeven once.Jasper hasputup NoParking signsoutside hisgate,but thesehave nothad any effect.Now he has putan uglystone headover the gate.It isone of the ugliestfaces I haveever seen.I asked him whatit wasand he toldmethat it wasMedusa,the Gorgon.Jasper hopesthat she willturn motoriststo stone.But none of themhas beenturned tostone yet!珀.是少有的相信古代神话的人之一他刚在城里买下一所新房子，XX XX但自从搬进去后，就和汽车及车主们发生了磨擦当他夜里回到家时，总是发现有人把车停在他家大门外为此，他甚至一次也没能把自己的车库珀曾XX XX把几块“禁止停车”的牌子挂在大门外边，但没有任何效果现在他把一个丑陋的石雕头像放在了大门上边，这是我见过的最丑陋的头像之一我问他那是什么？他告诉我那是蛇发女怪美杜莎珀希望她把汽车和车主们都变成石头XX但到目前为止还没有一个变成石头呢！出租汽车！Lesson29Taxi!Captain BenFawcett hasbought anunusual taxiand hasbegunanewservice.The taxiisa small Swissaeroplane called a PilatusPorter.This wonderfulplane cancarry sevenpassengers.The mostsurprising thingaboutit,however,is thatit canland anywhere:on snow,water,or evenona ploughedfield.Captain Fawcettsfirst passengerwas adoctor whoflewfrom Birminghamto a lonely villagein theWelsh mountains.Since then,Captain Fawcetthas flownpassengers tomany unusualplaces.Once he landedon the roofof a blockof flatsand onanother occasion,helandedin adesertedcar park.Captain Fawcetthas justrefused a strange requestfroma businessman.The manwanted to fly toRockall,alonelyisland in theAtlantic Ocean,but CaptainFawcett did not take him because the tripwastoo dangerous.本.机长买了一辆不同寻常的出租汽车，并开始了一项新的业务这辆xxxx“出租汽车”是一架小型飞机，叫特斯号这架奇妙的飞机可以载XX“XX.XX名乘客然而，最令人惊奇的是它能够在任何地方降落雪地上，水面上，甚7至刚耕过的田里机长的第一名乘客是位医生，他从飞往一个偏XXXX XX xxxx僻的村庄从那时开始，机长已经载送乘客到过许多不寻常的地方一次，xxxx他把飞机降落在了一栋公寓楼的屋顶上；还有一次，降落在了一个废弃的停车场上机长刚刚拒绝了一位商人的奇怪要求这个人想要飞往上的一个孤XXXX XX岛一岛，机长之所以不送他去，是因为那段飞行太危险了XX xxxx足球还是水球Lesson30Football orpoloThe Wayleisa small riverthat cutsacross thepark nearmyhome.I likesitting bythe Wayleon fineafternoons.It waswarm lastSunday,so I went andsat on the riverbank asusual.Some childrenwereplaying gameson the bank and there weresomepeoplerowing on theriver.Suddenly,one of the childrenkicked aball veryhard andit went towardsa passingboat.Some peopleon thebank calledout to the manin the boat,but he did nothear them.The ballstruck himso hardthat henearly fellinto thewater.I turnedto lookatthe children,but there werent anyin sight:they hadall runaway!The manlaughed whenhe realizedwhat hadhappened.He calledout to the childrenand threwtheballback to thebank.威尔河是横穿过我家附近公园的一条我喜欢在天气晴朗的下午到河边XX坐坐上星期日天气很暖和于是我和往常一样，又去河边坐着河岸上有些孩子正在玩耍，河面上有些人正在划船突然,一个孩子狠狠地踢了一脚球，球便向着一只划过来的小船飞去岸上的一些人对着小船上的人但他没有听见XX,球重重地打在他身上，使他差点儿落入水中我转过头去看那些孩子，但一个也不见，全都跑了！当那个人了发生的事情时，笑了起来他大声叫着那些孩xx子，把球扔回到岸上成功者的故事Lesson31Success storyYesterday afternoon FrankHawkins wastelling me about hisexperiencesas ayoungman.Frank is nowthe head of averylarge businesscompany,but asa boyhe used to workina small shop.It washis jobto repairbicyclesand atthat time he used to workfourteen hoursa day.He savedmoney foryearsand in1938he boughta smallwork-shop of his own.During the warFrank used to makespare partsfor aeroplanes.At thattimehe had twohelpers.By the end of thewar,the smallwork-shop hadbecome a largefactory whichemployed sevenhundred andtwenty-eight people.Frank smiledwhenhe rememberedhis hardearly yearsandthelong roadto success.Hewas stillsmiling when the dooropened andhiswifecamein.She wantedsonhim to repairtheirsbicycle!昨天下午向我讲述了他年轻时的经历在退休前，是一家非常大XX.XX XX的商业公司的经理，但他小时候却在一家小铺里做工他那时的工作是修理自行车，并且通常是一天工作个小时他靠多年积蓄，于年买下了自己的一141958个小铺子多岁的时候，曾生产飞机零配件那时他有两个帮手几年之20xx后，小铺子已经发展成了一个雇有人的大工厂回想着他早年的艰难经728xx历和走过的“天啊，”她说，“你总是起得这么晚吗？现在已经点钟了！”1请给我寄一张明信片Lesson3Please sendmeacardPostcards alwaysspoil myholidays.Last summer,I went to Italy.Ivisited museumsandsatin publicgardens.A friendlywaiter taughtme afewwords ofItalian.’Then helent mea book.I reada fewlines,butI did notunderstand aword.Every dayI thoughtabout postcards.Myholidays passedquickly,but Idid notsend anycards to my friends.Onthe lastdayImade abig decision.I gotupearlyand boughtthirty-sevencards.I spentthewholeday inmyroom,but Idid notwrite asingle card!明信片总搅得我假日不得去年夏天，我去了我参观了博物馆，还XX XX去了公园一位好客的服务员教了我几句语，之后还借给我一本书我读了XX几行，但一个字也不懂我每天都想着明信片的事假期过得真快，可我还没有给我的朋友们寄过一明信片到了最后一天，我作出了一项重大决定我早XX早起了床，买来了明信片我在房间里关了整整一天然而竟连一明37XX xx信片也没写成！激动人心的旅行漫长的成功之路，微笑了Lesson4An excitingtrip他正笑着的时候门开了，他的妻子走了进来她叫他去修理的自行车XX购物变得很方便Lesson32Shopping madeeasyPeople arenot sohonest as they oncewere.The temptation to stealisgreater thanever before--especially inlarge shops.A detectiverecentlywatched awell-dressed womanwho alwayswent into a largestoreon Mondaymornings.One Monday,therewerefewer peoplein the shop thanusualwhen the woman camein,so it was easierfor the detective towatchher.The womanfirst boughta fewsmall articles.After alittle time,shechose one of the most expensivedresses in the shopand handedit to anassistant whowrapped itupfor her asquickly aspossible.Then the womansimply took the parceland walked out of theshopwithout paying.When shewas arrested,thedetectivefound outthat theshop-assistant was hergavedaughter.The girlher mothera freedress oncea week!人们不再像以前那样诚实了偷窃的诱惑力比以往任何时候都更强烈一特别是在大的商店里一名侦探最近注意上了一位穿着讲究的妇女，她总是在星期一上午进入一家大商场有一个星期一，当这位妇女走进这家商场时，里面的人比往常少，因此，侦探比较容易监视她这位妇女先是买了几样小商品过了一会儿，她又选了商场里最昂贵的一件衣服，把它递给了售货员那售货员以最快的速度为她包好了衣服然后，那妇女拿过包就走出了商场，根本没有付钱她被逮捕后侦探发现原来那售货员是她的女儿那姑娘每星期“送”她母亲一件免费的衣服！冲出黑暗lesson33Out of the darknessNearlya weekpassed beforethe girlwas able toexplainwhat hadhappenedto her.One afternoonshe setout fromthe coastina small boatandwas caughtina storm.Towards evening,the boatstruck arock andthegirl jumpedinto the sea.Then sheswam to the shoreafter spendingthewhole nightin thewater.During thattime shecovered adistance ofeightmiles.Early next morning,she sawa lightahead.She knewshe wasnearthe shorebecausethelight washigh upon the cliffs.On arrivingat theshore,the girlstruggled up theclifftowardsthelight she had seen.Thatwas allshe remembered.When shewoke up a daylater,she foundherselfin hospital.几乎过了一个星期，那姑娘才能讲述自己的遭遇一天下午，她乘小船从海岸出发,遇上了风暴天将黑时，小船撞在了一块礁石上，姑娘跳进了海里她在海里游了整整一夜才游到岸边在那里，XX她游了第二天凌晨，她看到前方有灯光，知道自己已经接近岸边了，因为8xx那灯光是在高高的峭壁上到达岸边后，姑娘朝着她看到的灯光方向挣扎着往峭壁上爬去她所记得的就是这些第二天她醒来时，发现自己躺在医院里破案神速”Lesson34Quick workTedRobinson has been worriedall theweek.Last Tuesdayhe receiveda letterfromthe localpolice.In theletter he was asked to callat thestation.Ted wonderedwhy he was wantedbythe police,but he wentto thestation yesterdayandnow he isnot worriedany more.At thestation,hewas toldby asmiling policemanthat hisbicycle had been found.Five daysago,the policemantold him,the bicyclewas pickedup inasmallvillagefour hundred miles away.It isnow beingsent tohis homeby train.Tedwas mostsurprised whenhe heardthe news.He was amused too,because heneverexpected thebicycle tobe found.It wasstolen twentyyears agowhenTed was a boyof fifteen!焦虑了整整一个星期上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信，要他XX.XX到警察局去一趟奇怪警察为什么找他，但昨天还是去了，结果他一再担心XX了在警察局里，一位面带笑容的警察告诉他,他的自行车找到了那位警察对他说，那辆自行车是天前在外的一个小村里发现的，现在正用火车给他5400XX运回家来听到这个消息后，惊奇万分，但又感到非常好笑，因为他从未指XX望那辆自行车还能找到这是年前还是一个岁的孩子时被人偷走的！20xx15捉贼！Lesson35Stop thief!Rov Trenton used to drive ataxi.A shortwhile ago,however,he becameabus-driver and he was not regrettedit.He is finding his new workfarmore exciting.When he was driving along CatfordStreet recently,he sawtwothieves rushout of a shopand runtowards awaiting car.One of themwas carryinga bagfull ofmoney.Roy actedquickly anddrove the busstraight atthe thieves.The onewith the money got such a fright that hedropped thebag.As thethieves weretrying to get awayin theircar,Roydrove his bus into the backofit.While thebattered car was movingaway,Roy stoppedhisbusand telephonedthepolice.The thievescarwasbadlydamaged andeasy torecognize.Shortly afterwards,thepolicestopped thecar and both men werearrested.原是开出租汽车的，然而就在前不久,他开上了公共汽车，也并不为XX.XX此而感到后悔他发觉自己的新工作令人兴奋得多最近，当他正开车在凯特街上行驶时，看到有两个小偷从一家商店里冲出来，奔向等在那里的一辆汽XX车，其中一个提着一只装满钞票的提包行动迅速，开车直冲窃贼而去拿XX钱的那个小偷吓得把提包都扔了当那两个小偷企图乘车逃跑时，驾驶他的XX公共汽车撞在了那辆车的后尾上当那辆被撞坏的车开走后，停下车，给警XX察挂了电话小偷的车损坏严重，很容易辨认没过多久，警察就截住了那辆车，两个小偷都被抓住了横渡Lesson36Across the Channel xxErnaHart is going toswim across the English Channel tomorrow.Sheis going tosetout fromthe Frenchcoast at five oclock in themorning.Erna isonly fourteenyears old and shehopes loset up anew world record.She isa strongswimmer andmany peoplefeel thatshe issure tosucceed.Ernas fatherwill setout withher inasmallboat.Mr Harthas trainedhis daughter foryears.Tomorrow he will be watching heranxiously as sheswims thelong distanceto England.Erna intendstotakeshort restseverytwo hours.She willhave somethingto drinkbut she will noteat anysolidfood.Most ofErnas schoolfriends will be waitingfor heron theEnglishcoast.Among themwill beErnas mother,who swamtheChannelherself whenshe was agirl.哈特准备明天横渡英吉利海峡她打算早上点钟从海岸出发XX.5XX xx只有岁，她希望创一项新的世界纪录她是一个游泳能手，很多人认为她一11定能成功的父亲将乘一条小船同她一道出发哈特先生训练她的女儿已经xx多年了，明天他将焦急地注视着女儿游过这段漫长的距离到达计划每两XX XX小时休息一下她将喝些饮料，但不吃固体食物的大部分同学将在海岸XX XX等候她他们当中还会有的母亲，她本人还是个姑娘时，也曾横渡过英吉利XX海峡！奥林匹克运动会Lesson37The Olympic GamesThe OlympicGames will be heldin ourcountry infour yearstime.As a great many people will be visitingthe country,the governmentwillbe building new hotels,an immensestadium,and afine newswimmingpool.’They willalso bebuildingnewroads and aspecialrailway-line.The Gameswillbe heldjust outsidethecapitalandthewhole areawillbecalledOlympic City’.Workers willhavecompletedthe newroads bytheendofthis year.By theendofnext year,they willhave finishedworkon thenew stadium.The finemodern buildingshavebeendesigned byKurt Gunter.Everybody willbewatchinganxiously asthenewbuildings goup.We areallvery excitedand arelooking forwardto theOlympicGamesbecause theyhavenever beenheld beforein thiscountry.年以后，奥林匹克运动会将在我们国家举行由于将有大批的人到我们国4家来，所以政府准备建造一些新的饭店、一个大型体育场和一个新的奥运会标准游泳池他们还将修筑一些新的道路和一条铁路专线奥运会就在首都市郊举办，整个地区将被称作“奥林匹克城”工人们将在今年年底前把新路铺好；到明年年底，他们将把新体育场建成这些巨大的现代化建筑是由库尔特.冈特设计的大家都将急切地注视着新建筑的建成我们都非常激动，盼望着奥运会的到来，因为在这个国家里还从未举办过奥运会惟独没有考虑到天气Lesson38Everything except the weatherMyold friend,Harrison,had livedin theMediterranean formany yearsbeforehe returned to England.He hadoften dreamedof retiringin Englandand had plannedto settledown in the country.He hadno soonerreturnedthan heboughtafine houseand wentto livethere.Almost immediatelyhebegan tocomplain about the weather,for eventhough it was stillsummer,it rainedcontinually andit wasoften bitterlycold.After somany yearsofsunshine,Harrison gota shock.He actedas if he hadnever livedinEngland before.In theend,it wasmore thanhe couldbear.He had hardlyhad timeto settledown whenhe soldthe houseand leftthecountry.Thedream he had hadforsomany yearsended there.Harrison hadthought ofeverythingexcepttheweather.我的老朋友在回到以前曾多年居住在地中海地区过去他常幻想退XX XX休后到并计划在乡间安顿下来他刚一回到便买下了一幢房子住了进去XX,XX但紧接着他就开始抱怨那里的天气了因为即使那时仍为夏季，但雨总是下个不停，而且常常冷得厉害在下生活了那么多年的对此感到惊奇他的举动XX XX就好像他从未在生活过一样最后，他再也忍受不住，还没等安顿下来就卖XX掉了房子,离开了这个国家他多年来的幻想从此破灭把每件事情都考虑到XX了，唯独没想到天气我是否痊愈？Lesson39Am Iall rightWhileJohn Gilbertwas in hospital,he askedhis doctorto tellhimwhether hisoperation had been successful,but thedoctor refused to doso.The following day,the patientasked for a bedsidetelephone.When hewas alone,he telephonedthe hospitalexchange and asked forDoctorMillington.When thedoctor answeredthe phone,Mr Gilbertsaid he wasinquiring about a certainpatient,a Mr John Gilbert.He asked if MrGilbertsoperation had been successfulandthedoctor told him thatithad been.He thenasked whenMr Gilbertwould beallowed togo home andthe doctortold him that hewould have to stayinhospitalfor anothertwoweeks.Then DrMillington askedthe callerif he was arelative of theJpatient.No,the patientanswered,I amMrJohnGilbert.当约翰.吉尔伯特住院的时候，他问医生他的手术是否成功，但医生拒绝告诉他第二天，这位病人要了一部床头电话当房里只剩他一个人时，他挂通了医院的交换台，要求与医生讲话当这位医生接过电话时，吉尔伯特先生说XX他想询问一个病人的情况，是一位名叫约翰.吉尔伯特的先生他问吉尔伯特先生的手术中否成功，医生告诉他手术很成功然后他又问吉尔伯特先生什么时候可以回家,医生说他在医院还必须再住上两个星期之后，医生问打电话的人XX是否是病人的亲属“不是，”病人回答说，“我就是约翰.吉尔伯特先生”进餐与交谈Lesson40Food andtalkLast weekatadinner-party,the hostessasked meto sitnexttoMrsRumbold.Mrs Rumboldwasa large,unsmiling ladyinatight blackdress.She didnot evenlookupwhen I took myseat besideher.Her eyeswere fixedonher plate and ina short time,she was busy eating.I tried to makeconversation.〃JA newplay iscoming toThe Globe soon,I said.’Will yoube seeingit’No,she answered.’Will yoube spendingyour holidaysabroad thisyear’I asked.No,she answered.Will youbestayingin England’I asked.‘No,she answered.In despair,I askedher whethershe wasenjoying herdinner.Young man,she answered,ifyouate moreand talkedless,we wouldbothenjoy ourdinner!’在上星期的一次宴会上，女主人安排我坐在尔德夫人的身旁XX尔德夫人是一位身材高大、表情严肃的女人，穿一件紧身的黑衣服当我在XX她身旁坐下来的时候，她甚至连头都没有抬一下她的眼睛盯着自己的盘子，不一会儿就忙着吃起来了我试图找个话题和她聊聊“一出新剧要来环球剧场上演了，我说，“您去看吗？”“不，”她回答“您今年去国外度假吗？我又问“不，”她回答Ihave just receiveda letterfrom mybrother,Tim.He isin Australia.He has been thereforsixmonths.Tim isan engineer.He isworkingfor abig firmand he has alreadyvisited a great number of differentplacesinAustralia.He has just boughtan Australiancarandhas gonetoAlice Springs,asmalltown in the centre of Australia.He willsoon visitDarwin.From there,he willfly toPerth.My brotherhas neverbeen abroadbefore,so heis findingthis tripvery exciting.我刚刚收到弟弟蒂姆的来信，他正在澳大利亚他在那儿已经住了个月6了蒂姆是个工程师，正在一家大公司工作，并且已经去过澳大利亚的不少地方了他刚买了一辆澳大利亚小汽车，现在去了澳大利亚中部的斯普林斯xxxx他不久还将到达去，从那里，他再飞往珀斯我弟弟以前从未出过国，因此，xx他觉得这次旅行非常激动人心无错号之虞Lesson5No wrongnumbersMr.James Scott has agarage inSilbury andnowhe has justboughtanother garagein Pinhurst.Pinhurst isonly fivemiles fromSilbury,butMr.Scott cannotget atelephone forhisnewgarage,so hehasjustboughttwelve pigeons.Yesterday,a pigeoncarried the first messagefrom PinhursttoSilbury.The“您就呆在吗？我问XX“不，”她回答失望之中我问她饭是否吃得满意“年轻人，”她回答说，“如果你多吃点，少说点，我们两个都会吃得好的！”你把那个叫帽子吗？Lesson41Do you call thata hatDo youcallthatahat’I saidtomy wife.’You needntbesorudeabout it,my wifeanswered asshe lookedat herselfin the mirror.I satdownon one ofthosemodern chairswith holesin itand waited.We had beenin thehat shopfor half an hourand my wife wasstill infront of themirror.We mustntbuy thingswe dontneed,I remarkedsuddenly.Iregretted sayingit almostat once.，JYou neednthavesaidthat,mywifeanswered.I neednot remindyouof thatterrible tieyou boughtyesterday.JI findit beautiful,I said.’A mancan neverhave toomany ties.’And awoman canthave toomany hats,she answered.Ten minuteslater wewalked out of theshop together.My wifewaswearing ahat thatlooked like a lighthouse!“你把那个叫帽子吗？我对妻子说“你说话没必要这样不客气，”我的妻子边回答边照着镜子我坐在一个新式的满是网眼儿的椅子上，等待着我们在这家帽店已经呆了半个小时了，而我的妻子仍在镜子面前“我们不应该买我们不需要的我突然发表意见说，但马上又后悔说XX,了这话“你没必要这么说，我妻子回答说，“我也不必提醒你昨天买的那条糟糕透了的领带”“我觉得它好看，我说，“男人有多少领带也不会嫌多”“女人有多少帽子也不嫌多”她回答分钟以后，我们一道走出了商店我妻子戴着一顶像灯塔一样的帽子10并非很懂音乐Lesson42Not verymusicalAs we had hada longwalk throughone of the marketsof OldDelhi,we stoppedatasquare to havearest.After atime,we noticedasnake-charmer withtwo largebaskets attheotherside of the square,sowe wentto havea lookat him.As soonas hesaw us,he pickedup alongpipe which was coveredwith coinsand openedone ofthe baskets.When hebegan to playa tune,wehadour firstglimpse ofthe snake.It roseoutof thebasket andbegan tofollow themovements ofthe pipe.We wereverymuch surprisedwhenthesnake charmersuddenly began to playjazz tunesandmodern popsongs.The snake,however,continued todance slowly.Itobviously couldnottellthe differencebetween Indianmusic andjazz!当我们穿过旧的市场时走了很长一段路，我们在一个广场上停下来休息XX过了一会儿，我们注意到广场的那一边有一个带着两个大筐的耍蛇人，于是就走过去看看他一见我们，就拿起了一个长长的上面镶有硬币的管乐器，并掀开了一个筐的当他开始吹奏一支曲子时，我们才第一次看到那条蛇它从筐里XX探出身子，随着乐器的摆动而扭动当耍蛇人突然又吹奏起爵士乐和现代流行乐曲时，我们感到非常惊奇然而那蛇却还是缓慢地“舞动”着显然，它分辨不出音乐和爵士乐！xx飞越Lesson43Over theSouth PolexxIn1929,three yearsafter hisflight over the NorthPole,the Americanexplorer,R.E.Byrd,successfully flewover theSouth Polefor the first time.Though,at first,Byrd andhis menwere ableto takeagreat manyphotographs ofthe mountainsthat laybelow,they soonraninto serioustrouble.At onepoint,it seemedcertain that their planewouldcrash.It couldonly getover the mountains ifit roseto10,000feet.Byrd atonce orderedhis mento throwout twoheavy foodsacks.The planewas then ableto riseanditcleared themountains by400feet.Byrd nowknewthathewouldbeabletoreach theSouth Polewhich was300miles away,for therewere nomore mountainsinsight.The aircraftwas ableto flyover the endlesswhite plainswithout difficulty.探险家在飞越年之后，于年第一次飞越了虽然xx R.E.xx xx31929XXo开始和他的助手们拍下了飞机下面连绵群山的大量照片，但他们很快就陷入xx了困境在有个地方，飞机似乎肯定要坠毁了只有在飞至英尺的高度10,000时，它才能飞过这些山头马上命令他的助手们把两个沉重的食物袋扔掉，xx于是飞机可以上升了，它在离山头英尺的高度飞越了过去这时知道他400xx能够顺利飞抵以外的了，因为前面再没有山了飞机可以毫无困难地300xx xx飞过这片茫茫无际的白色原野！穿过森林Lesson44Through the forestMrs AnneSterling didnot thinkoftherisk shewas takingwhen sheranthrough aforest aftertwo men.They hadrushed upto herwhile shewashaving a picnic atthe edgeof aforest withher childrenand triedtosteal herhandbag.In thestruggle,the strapbroke and,with thebagin theirpossession,bothmenstarted runningthrough the trees.MrsSterling got so angrythatsheran afterthem.She was soon outof breath,but shecontinued torun.When shecaught upwith them,she sawthat theyhadsatdownand weregoing throughthe contentsofthebag,so sheranstraight atthem.The mengotsuchafrightthat theydropped thebag andranaway.’The strapneeds mending,said MrsSterling later,but they,didnotsteal anything.夫人在穿过森林追赶两个男人时，她并没有考虑到所冒的风险刚XX.XX才，当她和孩子们正在森林边上野餐的时候，这两个人冲到她跟前，企图抢走她的手提包在争抢中，手提包的带断了，包落入这两个人手里，他们拔腿跑进了树林夫人非常气愤，向着他们追了过去只追了一会儿便上气不接下气了，XX但她还是继续追赶当她赶上他们时，发现他们已经坐了下来，正翻着包里的于是她XX直冲过去这两个人吓了一跳，扔下提包逃跑了“这提包带需要修理，”夫人事后说道，“不过他们什么也没偷走”XX问心无愧Lesson45A clearconscienceThe wholevillage soonlearnt thata largesumofmoney hadbeen lost.Sam Benton,the localbutcher,had lost his walletwhile takinghis savingsto the post-office.Sam wassure that the walletmust havebeen foundbyone ofthe villagers,but it was notreturnedtohim.Three monthspassed,and thenone morning,Sam foundhis walletoutside hisfront door.It hadbeenwrapped upin newspaperanditcontained halfthemoneyhe hadlost,together with a notewhich said:A thief,yes,but only5o per cent athief!’Two monthslater,some moremoney wassent toSam with anothernote:Only25per centa thiefnow!’In time,all Samsmoney waspaidback inthis way.The lastnote said:Iam100percenthonest now!’整个村子很快知道，有一大笔钱丢失了当地的屠户本顿在把存款送往XX.邮局的途中把钱包丢了确信那钱包一定是被某个村民捡到了，可是却不见XX有人来送还给他个月过去了，后来在一天早晨，在自己的大门外发现了他3xx的钱包钱包是用报纸包着的，里面有他丢失的钱的一半，而且还附着一张纸条，上面写着“一个小偷，是的，但只是一个的小偷！”又过了两个月，又有50%一些钱送还给了又附了一张字条”这回只是的小偷了！”很快,xx,25%xx全部的钱都用同样的方式还了回来最后的那张字条上写道“我现在是一个的诚实人了！”100%既昂贵又受罪lesson46Expensive anduncomfortableWhen aplane fromLondon arrivedat Sydneyairport,workers began tounload a number ofwooden boxeswhich containedclothing.No onecouldaccount for the factthat oneofthe boxes wasextremely heavy.It suddenlyoccurredto oneoftheworkers toopen up thebox.He wasastonished atwhathe found.A manwas lyinginthebox ontop of a pileof woollengoods.He wasso surprisedat beingdiscovered thathedidnot eventry torunaway.After hewas arrested,themanadmitted hidinginthebox beforetheplane leftLondon.He hadhadalong anduncomfortable trip,for he hadbeen confinedto thewooden boxfor overten hours.The manwas orderedtopay345for thecost ofthe trip.The normalprice of aticketis230!当一架来自的飞机抵达悉尼机场时，工人们开始卸下装有服装的一批木XX箱其中有只箱子特别重，可谁也弄不清是怎么回事突然一个工人想到打开箱子看看看到的情景使吃惊，箱内有一个人正躺在一堆毛织品之上他由于被人发现而感到非常吃惊，甚至都没有企图逃跑此人被逮捕后，承认他是在飞机离开前躲进箱里的他经历了一次漫长而又难受的旅程，因为他在那木箱里闷XX了个多小时此人被责令交付旅费英镑，而正常票价是英镑!183,5002,000嗜酒的鬼魂Lesson47A thirstyghostA publichouse whichwas recentlybought byMr IanThompson isup forsale.Mr Thompsonisgoing to sellit becauseit ishaunted.He toldmethat he couldnotgo to sleep onenight becauseheheardastrangenoisecoming fromthe bar.The next morning,he foundthat thedoors hadbeenblocked bychairs andthe furniturehadbeenmoved.Though Mr Thompson hadturnedthe lightsoff beforehewentto bed,they wereon inthemorning.He alsosaidthathehadfound fiveempty whiskybottles which the ghostmusthave drunkthenightbefore.When Isuggested thatsome villagersmusthave comein for a freedrink,MrThompsonshook his head.The villagershave told him that theywill notaccept theinn evenifhegives itaway.先生最近才买的一个小酒店现在又要卖出去先生之所以想卖它，XX.XX XX是因为那里常闹鬼他告诉我有天夜里他怎么也睡不着,因为他听到酒吧里传来一阵奇怪的响声第二天早上，他发现酒吧间的门被椅子堵上了，家具也被挪动过虽然临睡觉时把灯关了，XX但早晨灯却都亮着他还说他发现了只空的瓶子，肯定是鬼魂昨天晚上喝5xx的当我暗示说一定是村里有些人来喝不花钱的酒时，先生摇了摇头村里的XX人已经告诉他，即使他把小酒店人，他们也不要XX你想对我说什么吗？Lesson48Did youwant to tell mesomethingDentists alwaysask questionswhen it is impossiblefor youto answer.My dentisthad justpulled outoneof my teethandhadtoldmeto restfora while.I triedto saysomething,but my mouth wasfull ofcotton-wool.He knewI collectedbirds eggsand asked mewhethermy collectionwasgrowing.He thenaskedmehow mybrother wasand whetherI likedmy newjobin London.In answerto thesequestions Ieither noddedor madestrangenoises.Meanwhile,my tonguewas busysearching outthe holewhere thetoothhad been.I suddenlyfeltveryworried,but couldnot sayanything.Whenthe dentistat lastremoved thecotton-wool from mymouth,I was able totellhimthathehadpulled outthe wrongtooth.牙科医生们总是在你无法作出回答的时候向你提出问题我的牙科医生刚刚给我拔掉了一颗牙，叫我休息一会儿我想说点什么，但我嘴里了药棉XX他知道我收集火柴盒，于是问我收藏的米柴盒是否在增加接着他又问我的兄弟近来如何，问我是否喜欢的新工作作为对这些问题的回答，我不是点头，XX就是发出奇怪的声音与此同时，我的舌头正在忙着寻找刚拔掉的那颗牙的伤口我突然非常着急起来，但却什么也说不出来当那位牙医最后将药棉从我嘴中取出时，我总算有可能告诉他，他拔错了牙美梦告终Lesson49The endof adreamTired ofsleeping onthe floor,ayoungmaninTeheran savedup foryearsto buya realbed.For the firsttime in his life,he became the proudownerofabed whichhad springsand amattress.Because theweather wasveryhot,he carriedthe bedonto the roofofhis house.He sleptverywell forthe firsttwo nights,but onthe thirdnight,astormblew up.A gustof windswept the bed offtheroof and sent it crashinginto thecourtyardbelow.The youngman didnot wakeup untilthebedhad struckthe ground.Although thebed wassmashed topieces,themanwas miraculouslyunhurt.When hewoke up,hewasstill onthe mattress.Glancing atthe bitsofwood andmetal thatlay aroundhim,themansadly pickedup themattressand carriedbirdcovered thedistance inthree minutes.Up tonow,Mr.Scotthassenta great many requestsfor spareparts andother urgentmessages fromonegarage to theother.In this way,hehasbegun hisown privatetelephoneservice.先生在伯里有一个汽车修理部，现在他刚在平买了另一个汽XX.XX XX XX车修理部离伯里只有但先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到XX XX5xx,XX.XX一部电话机，所以他买了只鸽子昨天，一只鸽子把第一从带到伯里XX XX XX这只鸟只用了分钟就飞完了全程到目前为止，先生从一个汽车修理部向3XX另一个发送了大量索取备件的信件和其他紧急函件就这样，他开始自己的私人“电话”业务珀西•Lesson6Percy ButtonsxxxxI havejust moved to ahouse inBridge Street.Yesterdayabeggarknocked atmy door.He askedmefor a mealandaglass ofbeer.In returnforthis,the beggarstood onhisheadand sangsongs.I gave hima meal.He atethefoodand drankthe beer.Then heputapiece ofcheese in hispocket and went away.Later aneighbor toldmeabouthim.Everybody knowshim.His nameis PercyButtons.He callsat everyhouse inthe streetoncea monthand alwaysasks foramealandaglass ofbeer.it intohishouse.After hehad putit onthe floor,he promptlywenttosleep again.的一个人年轻人由于对睡地板感到厌倦，于是积蓄多年买了一张真正的XX床他平生第一次自豪地拥有了一张既有弹簧又带床垫的床由于天气很热，他便把床搬到了他的屋顶上头两天晚上，他睡得非常好但第三天晚上起了风暴一阵大风把床从屋顶上刮了下来,把它摔碎在下面的院子里那年轻人直到床撞到地上才醒了过来尽管床摔成了碎片，但年轻人却奇迹地没有受伤他醒来时，仍然躺在床垫上年轻人看了一眼周围的碎木片和碎金属片，伤心地捡起了床垫，把它拿进了屋他把床垫往地板上一放，很快又睡着了乘车兜风Lesson50Taken fora rideIlove travellinginthecountry,but Idont likelosing myway.Iwent onan excursionrecently,but mytrip tookme longerthan Iexpected.’Im goingto Woodford Green,I saidto the conductor as Igotonthe bus,，but Idon tknow where it is.’r11tell youwhere to get off,answeredthe conductor.I satinthefront ofthebus to get a goodview ofthecountryside.After sometime,thebusstopped.Looking round,I realizedwith ashock thatI wastheonlypassenger leftonthebus.‘You11haveto get offhere,theconductorsaid.’This isas farJaswe go.Is thisWoodfordGreen’I asked.’Oh dear,said theconductorsuddenly.’I forgotto putyou off.’It doesntmatter,I said.I511get offhere.’We are going backnow,said theconductor.Well,in thatcase,I prefertostayonthebus,I answered.我喜欢在乡间旅行，但却不愿意迷路最近我作了一次短途旅行,但这次旅行所花费的时间比我预计的要长“我要去草地，我一上车就对售票员说，“但我不知道它在那XXXXXX儿”“我来告诉您在哪儿下车，”售票员回答说我坐在汽车的前部，以便饱览农村风光过了一些时候，车停了我环视了一下身旁，惊奇地发现车里就只剩我一个乘客了“您得在这里下车，”售票员说，“我们的车就到此为止了”“这里是草地吗？我问道XXXXXX“哎呀，”售票员突然说，“我忘了让您下车了”“没关系，”我说，“我就在这儿下吧”“我们现在要返回去，”售票员说“好吧，既然如此，我还是留在车上吧我回答说对的奖赏Lesson51Reward forvirtue xxMy friend,Herbert,has alwaysbeen fat,but thingsgot sobad recentlythathe decided togoonadiet.He beganhis dieta weekago.First ofall,he wroteout along listof all the foodswhich wereforbidden.Thelist includedmostofthe thingsHerbert loves:butter,potatoes,rice,beer,milk,chocolate,and sweets.Yesterday Ipaid hima visit.I rangthebell andwasnotsurprised to see thatHerbert wasstill asfat asever.He ledmeintohis roomand hurriedlyhid a large parcelunder hisdesk.It wasobvious thathewasvery embarrassed.When Iasked himwhathewasdoing,hesmiledguiltily and then putthe parcelonthedesk.He explainedthat his dietwassostrict thathehadto rewardhimself occasionally.Then heshowed methe contentsoftheparcel.It containedfive largebarsof chocolateand threebags of sweets!我的朋友休一直很胖，但是近来情况变得越发糟糕，以致他决定节食他是一星期前开始节食的首先，他开列了一张长长的单子,上面列了所有禁吃的食物这张单子上的大多数食物都是休喜欢吃的:黄油、土豆、米饭、啤酒、牛奶、和糖果昨天我去看望了他我按响了门铃，当看XX到休仍和往常一样胖时，我并不感到惊奇他把我领进屋，慌忙把一个大包藏到了桌子下面显然他感到很尴尬当我问他正干什么时，他内疚地笑了，然后把那个大包拿到了桌上他解释说，他的饮食控制得太严格了，以致不得不偶尔奖赏自己一下接着他给我看了包里的里面装了大块和袋糖果！XX5XX3漂亮的地毯Lesson52A prettycarpetWe havejust movedinto anewhouseand Ihavebeen working hardallmorning.Ihavebeen trying to getmy newroom in order.This has not beeneasybecause Iown overathousandbooks.To makematters worse,the roomisrather small,so Ihave temporarilyput mybooks onthe floor.At themoment,they coverevery inchof floorspace and I actuallyhavetowalkon themtogetinoroutofthe room.A shortwhile ago,mysisterhelpedme tocarry oneofmyold bookcasesup thestairs.She went into myroomand gotabigsurprise whenshe sawall thosebooks onthe floor.’This，istheprettiest carpetIhaveeverseen,she said.She gazedatitforsome time then added,You dontneed bookcasesatall.You cansit hereinyour sparetime andread the carpet!’我们刚刚搬进一所新房子，我辛辛苦苦地干了整整一个上午我试图把我的新房间收拾整齐，但这并不容易，因为我有多本书更糟糕的是房间1,000还非常小，所以我暂时把书放在了地板上这会儿，书把地板的每一点空隙都占据了，我实际上是踩着这些书进出房间的几分钟前，我妹妹帮我把一个旧书橱抬上了楼她走进我的房间，当她看到地板上的那些书时，大吃一惊“这是我见过的最漂亮的地毯，”她说她盯着“地毯”看了一会儿，又说“你根本用不着书橱，空闲时你可以坐在这儿读地毯！”触电的蛇Lesson53Hot snakeAt last firemenhave putoutabig forestfire inCalifornia.Sincethen,they havebeen tryingto findout how the firebegan.Forest fireareoften causedby brokenglass orby cigarette ends whichpeoplecarelessly throwaway.Yesterday thefiremen examinedthe groundcarefully,but werenot ableto findany brokenglass.They werealso quitesure thatacigaretteenddidnotstart thefire.This morning,however,a firemanaccidentallydiscovered thecause.He noticedthe remainsofasnake whichwaswound round the electricwires ofa16,OOO-volt powerline.In thisway,hewasabletosolve themystery.The explanationwas simplebut veryunusual.A birdhad snatchedup thesnakefromthe ground and then droppedit onto thewires.The snakethenwound itselfroundthewires.When itdid so,it sentsparks downto theground and theseimmediately startedafire.消防队员们终于扑灭了加利福尼亚的一场森林大火从那时起,他们一直试图找出起火的原因森林火灾时常由破碎的玻璃或人们随手扔掉的香烟头引起昨天，消防队员仔细查看了地面，但未能发现碎玻璃他们还十分肯定火灾也不是由烟头引起的然而今天上午,一个消防队员偶然发现了起火的原因他发现了缠绕在高压线上的一条死蛇就这样，他解开了起火之谜解释很16,000xx简单，却异乎寻常一只鸟把蛇从地上抓起来，然后把它扔到了电线上于是蛇就缠住了几根电线当它这样做时，把火花送到了地面，这些火花立刻引起了一场大火粘糊的手指Lesson54Sticky fingersAfterbreakfast,I sentthe childrento schooland thenI wentto market.It wasstill earlywhen Ireturnedhome.The childrenwere atschool,myhusband wasatworkandthehousewasquiet.So I decidedtomake sometartsfor tea.In a shorttime I was busymixing butterand flourand myhands weresoon coveredwithsticky pastry.At exactlythat moment,the telephonerang.Nothing couldhavebeen moreannoying.I pickedupthereceiver betweentwo stickyfingersand wasdismayed whenI recognizedthe voice of MrsBates.It tookme tenminutesto persuadeher toring backlater.AtlastI hungupthereceiver.What amess!There waspastry onmy fingers,onthetelephone,andonthedoor-knobs.I hadno soonergot backto thekitchen thanthedoor-bell rangloudenough towake thedead.This timeit wasthe postmanandhewantedme tosign fora registeredletter!早饭后，我送孩子们上学，然后就去了商店我回到家时，时间还早孩子们在上学，我丈夫在上班，家里清静得很于是我决定做些肉馅饼不一会儿我就忙着调拌起了黄油和面粉，很快我的手上就沾满了粘粘的面糊恰恰在此时，电话铃响了没有什么能比这更烦人了我用两个沾满面糊的手指捏起了话筒当听出是贝茨的声音时，非常丧气我用了分钟的时间才说服她过会儿XX.10再来电话我终于挂上了话筒真是糟糕透了！我的手指上、电话机上以及门的把手上，都沾上了面糊我刚回到厨房，门铃又响了起来，响声足以把死人唤醒这次是邮递员，他要我签收一封挂号信！并非金矿Lesson55Not agold mineDreamsof findinglost treasurealmost cametrue recently.A newmachine calledThe Revealerhasbeeninvented andithasbeen usedtodetect goldwhich hasbeen buriedinthe ground.The machinewas used一一一-inacave near the seashorewhereitis saidpirates used to hidegold.The pirateswould oftenbury goldinthe cave andthen failto collectit.Armed withthenewmachine,a searchparty wentinto thecave hopingto find buriedtreasure.The leaderofthe party wasexamining thesoilnear theentrance to thecavewhenthemachine showedthat there was goldundertheground.Very excited,thepartydug ahole twofeet deep.Theyfinally foundasmallgold coinwhichwasalmost worthless.The partythensearched thewhole cavethoroughly butdidnotfind anythingexcept anemptytin trunk.In spiteofthis,many peopleare confidentthatThe Revealer,may revealsomething ofvalue fairlysoon.最近，找到失踪的梦想差一点儿变成现实一种叫“探宝器”的新机器XX已经发明出来，并被人们用来探测地下埋藏的金子在靠近海边的一个据说过去海盗常在里面藏金子的岩洞里，这种机器被派上了用场海盗们过去常把金子埋藏在那个洞里，可后来却没能取走一支用这种新机器装备起来的探宝队进入了这个岩洞，希望找到埋藏着的金子当这个队的队长正在检查洞口附近的土壤时，那台机器显示出它的下面埋有金子队员们异常激动，就地挖了一个两英尺深的坑，但最后找到的是一枚几乎一钱不值的小金币队员们接着又把整个洞彻底搜寻了一遍，但除了一只空铁皮箱外什么也没找到尽管如此，很多人仍然相信“探宝器”很快就会探出值钱的来XX比声音还，快！Lesson56Faster thansound!Once ayear arace isheld forold cars.A lotof carsentered forthisrace lastyear andtherewasagreat deal ofexcitement justbeforeit began.One ofthemosthandsome carswasaRolls-Royce SilverGhost.The mostunusual carwasaBenz whichhad onlythree wheels.Built in1885,it wasthe oldestcar takingpart.After agreatmanyloud explosions,therace began.Many ofthe carsbrokedownonthecourse andsome driversspentmore timeundertheircars thanin them!A fewcars,however,completed-一the race.The winningcar reached a speed of fortymiles an hour muchfasterthan anyof itsrivals.It speddownhill attheendoftherace anditsdriver hada lotof troubletryingtostop it.The racegave everyoneagreat dealof pleasure.It wasvery different from moderncar racesbutno lessexciting.旧式汽车的比赛每年举行一次去年有很多汽车参加了这项比赛比赛开始之前，人们异常激动最漂亮的汽车之一是生产的银鬼汽车，而最不寻XX—XX常的一辆则要属只有只轮子的奔驰牌汽车了该车造于年，是参赛车中31885最老的一辆在好一阵喧闹的爆炸声之后，比赛开始了很多汽车在途中就抛了锚，而有些驾驶员花在汽车底下的时间比坐在汽车里面的时间还长然而还是有几辆汽车跑完了全程获胜的那辆车达到了时速远远超过任何对手它在40xx—接近终点时，冲下了驾驶员费了好大劲才把车停下来这次比赛使每个人都xx,挺开心它虽然与现代汽车比赛大不相同，但激动人心的程度并不亚于现代化汽车大赛你要买什么，夫人？Lesson57Can Ihelp you,madamA womanin bluejeans stoodatthe window ofan expensiveshop.Thoughshe hesitatedforamoment,she finallywentinandaskedtoseea dressthatwasinthewindow.The assistantwho servedher didnot likethe wayshewas dressed.Glancing ather scornfully,he toldher that the dresswassold.The womanwalkedoutoftheshop angrilyand decidedto punishthe assistant nextday.She returnedto theshop thefollowing morningdressed inafur coat,withahandbag inone hand andalong umbrellainthe other.After seekingouttherude我刚刚搬进了街的一所房子昨天一个乞丐来敲我的门，问我要一顿饭XX和一杯啤酒作为回报，那乞丐头顶地倒立起来，嘴里还唱着歌我给了他一顿饭他把食物吃完，又喝了酒然后把一块乳酪装进衣袋里走了后来，一位邻居告诉了我他的情况大家都认识他，他叫珀西他每月对这条街上的每.XXXX户人家光顾一次，总是请求给他一顿饭和一杯啤酒为时太晚Lesson7Too lateTheplane waslateanddetectives werewaiting atthe airportallmorning.They wereexpecting avaluable parcelof diamondfrom SouthAfrica.A fewhours earlier,someone hadtold thepolice thatthieves wouldtryto stealthe diamonds.When the plane arrived,some ofthe detectives werewaiting insidethe mainbuilding whileothers werewaiting onthe airfield.Two mentooktheparcel offthe planeand carriedit intothe CustomsHouse.While twodetectiveswerekeeping guardatthedoor,two othersopened theparcel.To theirsurprise,the preciousparcel wasfullofstones andsand!飞机误点了，侦探们在机场等了整整一上午他们正期待从XX来的一个装着钻石的贵重包裹数小时以前，有人向警方报告，说有人企图偷走这些钻石当飞机到达时，一些侦探等候在主楼内，另一assistant she asked forthesame dress.Not realizingwho shewas,the assistantwas eagerto serveherthistimewith greatdifficulty,he climbedintotheshop windowtoget the dress.As soonasshesaw it,thewomansaid shedidnotlikeit.She enjoyedherself makingtheassistantbring almosteverything inthewindow beforefinally buyingthedressshe hadfirst askedfor.一位穿着牛仔裤的妇女站在一家高档商店的橱窗前她虽然犹豫了片刻，但终于还是走进了商店，要求把在橱窗里的一件衣服拿给她看接待她的售XX货员不喜欢她的那副打扮，轻蔑地看了她一眼后,便告诉她那件衣服已经卖出去了这位妇女怒气冲冲地走出了商店,决定第二天教训一下那个售货员第二天上午，她又来到这家商店,穿了一件一只手拎着一只手提包，另一只手拿XXXX,着一把长柄伞找到那个无礼的售货员后，她还要看昨天的那件衣服那个售货员没有认出她是谁，这一回接待她的态度非常费了好大劲儿，他爬进橱窗XX去取那件衣服这位妇女对那件衣服只看一眼，就说不喜欢她开心地迫使那位售货员把橱窗里几乎所有的都拿了出来，最后才买下了她最先要看的那一件XX是因祸得福吗？Lesson58A blessingin disguisetreeJThetiny villageof Frinleyis saidto possessa cursed.Becausethe treewas mentionedinanewspaper,the numberof visitorsto Frinleyhasnow increased.The treewas plantednear achurch fiftyyears ago,butit isonly inrecent yearsthatithas gainedan evilreputation.It issaidthat ifanyone touchesthe tree,hewillhave badluck;ifhepicksa leaf,hewilldie.Many villagersbelieve that the treehas alreadyclaimeda numberof victims.The vicarhasbeen askedtohavethetree cutdown,but sofar hehas refused.He haspointed outthat thetree isa usefulsourceof incomeas touristshavebeencoming fromall parts ofthecountryto seeit.In spiteof allthat hasbeen said,the tourists-havebeenpickingleaves andcutting theirnames onthetree-trunk.So far,not oneof themhasbeen struckdown bysudden death!据说这个小村里有一棵“该诅咒的树”就因为报上提到过这棵树，所XX以现在来参观的人越来越多该树是年前栽在教堂附近的，但只是近几年XX50才得到了一个坏名声据说，谁要是触摸了这棵树，谁就会交上恶运；如果谁摘了一片树叶，谁就会死去很多村民相信此树已经害了不少人人们曾请求教区的牧师叫人把树砍掉,但他直到现在也没有同意他指出，由于人们从全国各地纷纷前来参观这棵树，它成了一个有用的财源尽管有上述种种说法，但游客们还是照常摘树叶和把他们的名字刻在树干上然而到目前为止，还没有一个人暴死呢！进来还是出去？Lesson59In orout Ourdog,Rex,usedtosit outsideour frontgate andbark.Every timehewanted tocome intothegardenhewouldbark untilsomeone openedthegate.As theneighbours complainedofthenoise,my husbandspent weekstraininghim topress hispaw onthe latchto let himself in.Rex soonbecamean expertat openingthe gate.However,whenI was goingout shoppinglastweek,I noticedhiminthegardennearthegate.This timehewasbarkingso thatsomeone wouldlet himout!Since then,hehasdeveloped anotherbadhabit.As soonas heopens thegate fromthe outside,hecomesintothe gardenand waitsuntilthegate shuts.Then hesits andbarks untilsomeonelets himout.After thishe immediatelylets himselfinandbeginsbarking again.Yesterday myhusband removedthegateand Rexgotsoannoyedwe have not seenhim since.我家的狗过去常坐在大门外面叫每当它想到来时，便叫个不停，XX,XX XX直到有人把门打开由于邻居们对狗叫很有意见，所以我丈夫花了几个星期的时间训练它用脚爪按住门闩把自己放进来很快成了开门的专家然而上星期XX我正要出去买时，发现它正呆在边靠门的地方这次它叫着让人把它放出XX XX去！从那以后，它养成了另外一种坏习惯它从外面把门一打开，就走进花园，等着门自动关上这之后他就坐下叫起来，直到有人来把它放出去出去之XX后，它又马上把自己放进来，接着再开始叫昨天，我丈夫把门卸了下来，XX很生气，此后我们便再也没有见到它卜算未来Lesson60The futureAt a villagefair,Idecidedto visita fortune-teller calledMadamBellinsky.I wentinto hertent andshe toldmetosit down.After Ihadgiven hersome money,she lookedinto acrystal ball and said:A relationofyours iscomingtoseeyou.She willbe arrivingthis eveningand intendstostay fora fewdays.The momentyou leavethis tent,you willgetabigsurprise.A womanyou knowwell willrush towardsyou.She willspeak toyouandthenshe willlead youaway fromthis place.That isall.As soonasIwentoutside,I forgot all aboutMadam Bellinskybecause mywifeJhurried towardsme.Where haveyou beenhiding’she askedimpatiently.’Your sisterwillbehere inless thananhourandwemustbeatthestationto meether.We arelate already.As shewalked away,I followedher outofthe fair.在一个乡村集市上，我决定去拜访一位称作夫人的算命人我走进她的XX帐篷，她叫我坐下我给了她一些钱后，她便查看着一个水晶球说道“您的一个亲戚就要来看您了她将于今天傍晚到达，并准备住上几天您一走出这个帐篷，就会大吃一惊一位您很熟悉的女人将向您冲来她会对您说点什么，然后带您离开这个地方就是这些”我一走出帐篷，就把别林斯基夫人给算卦的事忘得一干二净了，因为我的妻子正匆匆向我跑来“你躲到哪儿去了？”她不耐烦地问,“再有不到一个小时你姐姐就要到这儿了，我们得去车站接她现在就已经晚了”当她走开时，我也跟着她出了集市的困境Lesson61Trouble withthe HubblexxxxIn future,astronauts willbe requiredtodescendfromaspaceshipwhile itisstillin spaceand to returnto it.The abilityto do this willbenecessary infuture flightsto distantplanets.Scientists arenowtrying todiscover ifthis ispossible.The spaceshipAstra whichleft theearthashorttime ago,willbetravelling threehundredmilesinto space.Atacertain point,the Astrawill stopforashorttime andanastronautwill attemptto leavethe stationaryspaceship andthen returntoit.Weshall notknow whetherthe experimenthasbeensuccessful untilwe havereceiveda radiomessage.The firstmessage isexpectedtoarriveat7oclock thisevening.By thattime,the Astrawillhavebeen flyingthroughspace forseventeen hoursand willhave circledthe earthagreatmanytimes.When thefirst radiomessages havebeen received,the resultsofthetripwill beannounced immediately.于年月日由国家航空航天局发射升空，耗资多亿美元xxxx199042010从最开始就有问题它传送给我们的图像很令人失望，因为它的主要镜子xxxx有误差国家航天局准备纠正这一错误，为此将把名宇航员送入太空修复4xx“奋进”号航天飞机将把宇航员送上当宇航员进行必要的修复工作时，“奋XX进”号上的一只机器手将抓住并托住它当然，位于地球的大气层之外，xx xx因此,它很快就会给我们传送我们所见到过的、有关行星和远距离星系的最清晰的照片将告诉我们有关宇宙的年龄和大小的许多事情等到你读到这篇文xx章时，敏锐的已经为我们送来了成千上万张精彩的照片xxxx大火之后Lesson62After thefireFiremen hadbeen fightingthe forestfire fornearly threeweeks beforetheycould getit undercontrol.A shorttime before,great treeshadcovered thecountryside formilesaround.Now,smoke stillrose upfromthewarm groundover thedesolatehills.Winter wascoining onandthehills threatenedthe surroundingvillageswith destruction,for heavyrain wouldnot onlywash awaythe soilbutwould causeserious floodsaswell.When thefire hadatlastbeen putout,theforestauthorities orderedseveral tonsofaspecial typeofgrass-seed whichwould growquickly.The seedwas sprayedoverthegroundin hugequantities by aeroplanes.The planeshadbeenplanting seedfornearly amonth whenit begantorain.By then,however,in manyplaces thegrasshadalreadytaken root.In placeofthegreat treeswhichhadbeengrowing therefor centuries,patches ofgreen hadbegun toappear intheblackened soil.消防队员们同那场森林大火搏斗了将近个星期才最后把火势控制住就3在不久之前，参天大树还覆盖着方圆数英里的土地而现在，发热的地面上仍然升腾着烟雾，弥漫在荒凉的上冬季即将来临，这些对周围的村庄具有毁xx xx灭性的威胁，因为大雨不仅会冲走土壤，而且还会引起严重的水灾在大火最后被扑灭后，森林管理当局订购了好几吨一种生长迅速的特殊类型的草籽飞机把这种草籽大量地撒播在地上飞机撒播近一个月后，开始下起雨来然而到那时，很多地方的草已经生了根一片片的绿草开始出现在这片烧焦的土地上，代替了多少世纪以来一直生长在那里的参天大树她并不觉得好笑Lesson63She wasnot amusedGeoffreyHampden hasalargecircle offriends andisverypopularat parties.Everybody admireshim forhis finesense ofhumor--everybody,that is,except hissix-year-old daughter,Jenny.Recently,one ofGeoffreysclosest friendsaskedhimtomakea speechatawedding reception.This isthe sortof thingthat Geoffreyloves.He preparedthe speechcarefullyand wenttothewedding withJenny.He hadincluded alarge numberoffunny storiesinthespeech and,of course,itwasagreatsuccess.Assoon as hehadfinished,Jenny toldhim shewanted togo home.Geoffreywas alittle disappointedby thisbut hedid ashisdaughterasked.On thewayhome,heaskedJenny ifshe hadenjoyed thespeech.To hissurprise,shesaidshe hadnt.Geoffrey askedher whythis wasso andshe toldhimthat shedidnotlike tosee somanypeoplelaughing athim!杰里米交际甚广，是各种聚会上深受大家欢迎的人人人都钦佩他那绝.XX妙的幽默感一人人，就是说，除他岁的女儿珍妮之外的每一个人最近，杰里6米的一个最亲密的朋友请他在一个婚礼上这正是杰里米喜欢做的事情他认XXo真准备了讲稿，带着珍妮一道去参加了婚礼他的里面加进了大量逗人的故事，自然大获成功xx他刚一讲完，珍妮就对他说她要回家这不免使杰里米有点扫兴，但他还是按照女儿的要求做了在回家的路上，他问珍妮是否喜欢他的使他吃惊的是，她XX说她不喜欢杰里米问他为何不喜欢，她说她不愿意看到那么多的人嘲笑他！隧道Lesson64The Channel Tunnel xxIn1858,a Frenchengineer,Aime Thomede Gamond,arrivedin Englandwith aplan fora twenty-one miletunnel acrosstheEnglishChannel.Hesaid thatit wouldbe possibleto builda platforminthecentreoftheChannel.This platformwould serveasaport anda railwaystation.Thetunnel wouldbe well-ventilated iftall chimneyswere builtabove sea-level.In1860,a betterplan wasput forwardby anEnglishman,William Low.Hesuggested thata doublerailway tunnelshould bebuilt.This wouldsolvethe problemof ventilation,for ifa trainentered thistunnel,it woulddrawin freshair behindit.Forty-two yearslater atunnel wasactuallybegun.If,atthetime,the Britishhad notfeared invasion,it wouldhavebeen completed.Recently,there hasagain beengreat interestintheideaof aChannelTunnel.If itis built,it willconnect Britainto Europeforthe firsttimein history.年，一位名叫干蒙的工程师带着建造一条、穿1858xx.xx.xx.xx xx21xx越英吉利海陕的隧道计划到了他说，可以在隧道中央建造一座平台，这座xx平台将用作码头和火车站如果再建些伸出海面的高大的烟囱状通风管，隧道就具备了良好的通风条件年，一位名叫威廉.洛的人提出了一项更好的1860xx计划他提议建一条双轨隧道，这样就解决了通风问题因为如果有列火车开进隧道，它就把新鲜空气随之抽进了隧道年以后，隧道实际已经开始建了42如果不是因为那时人害怕入侵，隧道早已建成了世界不得不再等将近xx100年才看到隧道竣工它于年月7日正式开通，将与大陆连到了xx19943XX XX一起小象对警察Lesson65Jumbo versusthe policeLastChristmas,the circusowner,Jimmy Gates,decidedtotake somepresentstoa childrens hospital.Dressed upas FatherChristmas andaccompaniedby aguard ofhonour of six prettygirls,he setoff downthemain streetofthe city ridinga babyelephant calledJumbo.He,shouldhave knownthatthepolice would never allowthis sortof thing.A policemanapproachedJimmy and toldhimhe oughttohavegone alonga side-streetas Jumbowas holdingupthetraffic.Though Jimmyagreed togo atonce,些侦探则守候在停机坪上有两个Jumbo refusedto move.Fifteen policemen人把包裹拿下飞机，进了这时两个侦探把住门口，另外两个侦探打开了包XXo裹令他们吃惊的是,那珍贵的包裹里面装的全是石头和沙子！最好的和最差的Lesson8The bestandthe worstJoe Sandershas themost beautifulgarden inour town.Nearly everybodyentersfor TheNicest GardenCompetition eachyear,but Joewins everytime.Bill Frithsgarden islarger thanJoes.Bill worksharder thanJoeand growsmore flowersand vegetables,but Joesgarden ismore interesting.He hasmade neatpaths andhas builta woodenbridge overa pool.I likegardenstoo,but Idonotlike hardwork.Every yearI enterforthegardencompetition too,and Ialways winalittleprize fortheworstgarden inthetown!拥有我们镇上最漂亮的花园几乎每个人都参加每年举办的“最佳XX.XX花园竞赛”，而每次都是获胜比尔.弗里斯的花园的花园大，他也更XX XX XX为勤奋，种植的花卉和蔬菜也更多，的花园更富有情趣他修筑了一条条整XX洁的小路，并在一个上架了一座小我也喜欢花园，但我却不愿意辛勤劳XX XX动每年的花园竞赛我也参加，但总因是镇上最劣的花园而获得一个小奖！hadtopush veryhard toget himoffthemain street.The policehad adifficulttime,but theywere mostamused.’Jumbo mustweigh afew tons,saida policeman afterwards,so itwas fortunatethatwedidnt havetocarry him.Of course,we shouldarrest him,but as hehasa goodrecord,Jwe shalllethimoff thistime.去年圣诞节，马戏团老板吉米.盖茨决定送些礼物给儿童医院他打扮成圣诞老人，在由个漂亮姑娘组成的“仪仗队”的陪同下，骑上一头名叫的小6xx象，沿着城里的主要街道出发了他本该知道警察绝不会允许这类事情发生一个警察走过来告诉吉米，他应该走一条小路，因为阻碍了交通虽然吉米同xx意马上就走，但却拒绝移动个警察不得不用很大的力气把它推离主要街XX15道警察虽然吃了苦头，但他们还是感到很有趣一定有好几吨重，”一个“xx警察事后这样说，“值得庆幸的是它没让我们抬它走当然，我们应该逮捕它，但由于它一贯表现很好，这次我们饶了它”像蜜一样甜！Lesson66Sweet ashoney!The HatheldPuffin isa modernaero-plane,but itsdesigner,Mr JohnWimpenny,isfindingit difficulttogetit offtheground.The reasonforthis is that thisplane isalso abicycle.Its pilothas topedal hardtogetitintothe air.After MrWimpenny hadthe plane built,itwastested thoroughly.In1961,itwasthe firstman-powered aircraftto flyhalfamile.While beingf1ownbya championamateurcyclist in1963,theplane crashed onanairfield.Since then,MrWimpenny hashad itrebuilt.He hashad thelengthofthe wingsincreasedso that they nowmeasure93feet--almost aslong asthose ofa Dakota.Manypeople haveshown interestinthisnew andunusual sport.But thoughaircyclists maylearn how toflyover shortdistances,and may,eventually,even getacrosstheEnglishChannel,itisdoubtful whethertheywillevercycle acrosstheAtlantic.年，一架兰开斯特轰炸机在毁那是洋中一个很偏僻的小岛，1963xxxx xx位于萨摩亚群岛以西，距离群岛还有很长一段距离飞机损坏的程度并不严重，但是，多年来这起飞机失事已被遗忘，飞机残骸也没受到破坏于是，到了1989年，飞机失事年后，在对小岛的一次航空勘查架飞机被意外地发现了到26xx了那个时候，状况良好的兰开斯特轰炸机实属罕见，值得抢救政府让人把xx飞机包装起来，一部分一部分地搬回一群热心人计划修复这架飞机该飞xxo机装装配有的默林发动机，但是他们只需要修复其中的想一想4xxxx-xx3xx他们所感受到的惊奇和兴奋一一当他们拆开包装箱时，他们发现第发动机就4xx像蜂蜜一样甜一一发动机完好无损一群蜜蜂把发动机当作了蜂房，发动机在蜂蜡中被完整地保存了下来火山Lesson67VolcanoesHaroun Tazieffthe Polishscientist,has spenthislife-time studyingactivevolcanoes anddeep cavesin allpartsofthe world.In1948,he wenttolake KivuintheCongo toobserve anew volcanowhich helater namedKituro.Tazieff wasabletoset uphis campvery close tothe volcano whileitwas eruptingviolently.Though he managed totake anumberofbrilliantphotographs,hecouldnot staynearthevolcano forvery long.He noticedthatariverof liquidrock wascoming towards him.It threatenedtosurround himcompletely,but Tazieffmanaged toescape justin time.Hewaited untilthevolcanobecame quietandhewasabletoreturntwo dayslater.This time,hemanagedtoclimbintothemouth ofKituro so that hecouldtake photographsand measuretemperatures.Tazieff hasoften riskedhislife inthisway.He hasbeen abletotellus moreabout activevolcanoesthan anyman alive.科学家哈塔捷耶夫花了毕生的精力来研究世界各地的活火山和探XX xxxx.洞年他去了刚果的对一座后来被他命名为基图的新火山进行观察1948XX,xx当火山正在猛烈地喷发时，塔捷耶夫有办法把帐篷搭在离它非常近的地方尽管他设法拍了一些十分精彩的照片，但他却不能在火山附近停留太长的时间他发现有一股岩浆正向他流过来，眼看就要将他团团围住，但塔捷耶夫还是设法及时逃离了他等到火山平静下来，两天以后又返回去这次他设法爬进了基图XX火山口，以便能拍摄照片和测试温度塔捷耶夫经常冒这样的生命危险他能告诉我们的有关活火山的情况比任何在世的人都要多纠缠不休Lesson68PersistentI crossedthe streetto avoidmeeting him,but hesaw meand camerunningtowardsme.It wasno usepretending thatIhadnot seenhim,soI wavedtohim.Ineverenjoy meetingBert Dykes.He neverhas anythingtodo.No matterhow busyyouare,he alwaysinsists oncoming withyou.Ihadto thinkofaway ofpreventing himfrom followingme aroundallmorning.Hullo,Bert,Isaid.’Fancy meetingyou here!’Hullo,Elizabeth,Bert answered.’I was just wonderinghowtospendthe morning-until Isaw you.You renot busydoing anything,areyou’No,not atall,I answered.Im goingto..Would youmind mycomingwithyou’heasked,before Ihadfinished speaking.Not atall,I lied,but Imgoingtothe dentist.JThen Illcome withyou,he answered.Theres alwaysplenty toreadinthewaiting room!’我穿过马路以便避开他，但他看到我并朝我跑过来若再装作没看见他已是没有用了，我只好向他招手我就怕遇到奈克斯他从来都是无事可XX.XX做，不管你多忙，他总是坚持要跟你去我得想办法不让他整个上午缠着我“你好，奈想不到在这儿见到你我说XX,“你好，伊丽莎白，”奈回答说，“我正不知道怎么消磨这一上午呢，XX正好见到好你不忙，是吗？”“不，不忙，我打算去”我回答“我跟你一道去行吗？没等我说完话他就问道“没关系，但我准备去牙医那里”我说了个谎“那我也跟你去，候诊室里总有很多可供阅读！”他回答XX并非谋杀！lesson69But notmurder!Iwasbeing testedforadriving licenceforthethird time.Ihadbeenaskedto drivein heavytraffic andhad doneso successfully.After havingbeen instructedtodriveoutoftown,I beganto acquireconfidence.Sure thatIhad passed,Iwasalmost beginningto enjoymy test.The examinermusthavebeen pleasedwithmyperformance,forhesmiled andsaid,Just onemore thing,Mr Eames.Let ussuppose thatachildsuddenlycrosses theroad infront ofyou.As soonasItap onthewindow,I wantthe car tobe stoppedimmediately.I continueddriving andafter sometime,the examinertapped loudly.Though thesound couldbe heardclearly,it tookmealong timeto react.I suddenlypressed thebrake pedalhard andwe wereboth thrownforward.The examinerlookedatme sadly.’Mr Eames,hesaid,inamournful voice,youhavejust killedthat child!’我第次接受驾驶执照考试按照要求在车辆拥挤的路上驾驶，我圆满地3完成了在接到把车开出城的指令后，我开始有了信心确信我已通过考试，所以我几乎开始喜欢起这次考试主考人对我的驾驶想必是满意的，因为他微笑着说先生，只剩项了让我们假设一个小孩子突然在你前面穿过马路我“xx1一敲车窗，你必须把车停在英尺之内”我继续往前开着过了一会儿，主考5人地敲了起来虽然声音听得很清楚，但我过了好一会儿才作出反应我突然xx用力踩紧刹车踏板，结果我俩的身体都向前冲去主考人伤心地看着我先“xx生，”他以悲伤的声调说，“你刚刚把那个小孩压死了！“危险的红色Iesson70Red fordangerDuring abullfight,a drunksuddenly wanderedintothemiddle ofthering.The crowdbegantoshout,but the drunk wasunaware ofthe danger.The bullwasbusywiththematador atthetime,but itsuddenly caughtsightof the drunk who was shoutingrude remarksand wavinga redcap.Apparentlysensitive tocriticism,the bullforgotallaboutthematador andchargedat the drunk.The crowdsuddenly grewquiet.The drunk,however,seemedquite sureof himself.Whenthebull gotclosetohim,he clumsilysteppedaside tolet itpass.The crowdbroke intocheers andthedrunkbowed.Bythis time,however,three menhadcomeintothering andthey quicklydraggedthedrunkto safety.Even thebull seemedto feelsorry for him,for itlooked onsympathetically untilthedrunkwas outoftheway beforeoncemore turningits attentiontothematador.在一次斗牛时，一个突然溜达到斗牛场中间，人们开始大叫起来，但XX XX却没有意识到危险当时那公牛正忙于对付斗牛士，但突然它看见了只见他XX,正大声说着粗鲁的话，手里挥动着一顶对挑衅显然非常敏感的公牛完全撇开XXo斗牛士，直奔而来观众突然静了下来，可这像是很有把握似的当公牛XX XX逼近他时，他踉跄地住旁边一闪，牛扑空了观众欢呼起来，向人们鞠躬致XX谢然而，此时已有个人进入斗牛场，迅速把拉到安全的地方好像连牛3XX也在为他感到遗憾，因为它一直同情地看着直到他的背影消逝，才重新将注xx,意力转向斗牛土一个著名的大钟Lesson71A famousclockWhen youvisit London,oneofthefirstthings youwill seeis BigBen,the famousclock whichcanbeheard alloverthe world onthe B.B.C.If theHouses ofParliament hadhot beenburned down in1834,the greatclockwouldneverhavebeenerected.Big Bentakes itsname fromSirBenjamin Hallwho wasresponsible forthe makingofthe clock whenthe newHousesofParliamentwere beingbuilt.It isnotonlyof immensesize,butis extremelyaccurate aswell.Officials fromGreenwich Observatoryhavethe clockchecked twiceaday.On theB.B.C.you canheartheclock whenitis actuallystriking becausemicrophones areconnected tothe clocktower.Big Benhas rarelygone wrong.Once,however,it failedto givethecorrect time.A painterwho hadbeen workingonthetower hunga potofpaint on oneofthe handsand slowedit down!当你游览时，首先看到的之一就是“大本”即那座从英国广播XX XX XX,公司的广播中全世界都可以听到它的声音的著名大如果不是国会大厦在XX1834年被焚毁的话，这座大永远也不会建造xx“大本”得名于爵士，因为当建造新的国会大厦时，他负责建造大XX xx.xx此不仅外型巨大，而且走时也非常准确格林尼治的官员们每天两次XX xx XX派人此当大打点的时候，你可以从英国广播公司的广播中听到，因XX XXXX为塔上接了“大本”很多出差错然而有一次，它却把时间报错XXXXXX在塔上干活的一位油漆工把一只油漆桶挂在了一根指针上，把弄慢了！XXXX汽车Lesson72A car called Bluebirdxx”The greatracing driver,Sir MalcolmCampbell,wasthefirst mantodrive atover300miles perhour.He setupanewworld record inSeptember1935at BonnevilleSalt Flats,Utah.Bluebird,the carhewasdriving,hadbeen speciallybuilt forhim.It wasover30feet inlength andhada2500horse-power engine.Although Campbellreachedaspeedof over304milesper hour,hehadgreatdifficultyin controllingthecarbecause atyreburst duringthefirstrun.After hisattempt,Campbell wasdisappointedto learnthathisaverage speedhadbeen299miles perhour.However,afew dayslater,hewas toldthata mistakehadbeenmade.His averagespeedhad been301miles perhour.Since thattime,racing drivershave reachedspeedsofover400miles anhour.Following hisfathers footstepsmanyyears later,Sir Malcolmsson,Donald,also setupaworldrecord.Likehis father,hewasdrivingacarcalledBluebird.杰出的赛车选手姆.坎贝尔爵士是第一个以每小时超过的速度驾车XX300XX的人他于年月在的邦盐滩创造了一项新的世界纪录他驾驶的19359xx xx“xx”牌汽车是专门为他制造的它的车身英尺，有一个马力的发动机xx302,500尽管坎贝尔达到了每小时超过的速度，但他很难把汽车控制住，因为在开304xx始的行程中爆了一只轮胎比赛结束后，坎贝尔非常失望地得知他的平均时速是然而，几天之后，有人告诉他说弄错了他的平均时速实际是从299xx301xxo那时以来，赛车选手已达到每小时的速度很多年之后，姆爵士的儿600xx xx子踏着父亲的足迹，也创造了一项世界纪录同他父亲一样，他也驾驶着一xx辆名叫的汽车“xx”纪录保持者Lesson73The record-holderLittle boyswho playtruant fromschool areunimaginative.A quietdaysfishing,or eighthours ina cinemaseeing thesame filmover andoveragain,is usuallyas faras theyget.冷遇Lesson9A coldwelcomeOn Wednesdayevening,we wenttothe Town Hall.It wasthe lastdayof theyear andalargecrowd ofpeople hadgathered undertheTownHallclock.It wouldstrike twelvein twentyminutes time.Fifteen minutespassedandthen,atfiveto twelve,theclockstopped.The bigminute handdidnot move.We waitedand waited,but nothinghappened.Suddenly someone，shouted,Its twominutes pasttwelve!The clockhas stopped!I lookedatmy watch.It wastrue.The bigclock refusedto welcomethe NewYear.At thatmoment everybodybegantolaugh andsing.星期三的晚上，我们去了市政厅那是一年的最后一天，一大群人聚集在市政厅的大钟下面再过分钟，大钟将敲响下分钟过去了，而就在201215点分时，大钟停了那根巨大的分针不动了我们等啊等啊，可情况没有1155变化突然有人喊道”已经点零分了！那钟已经停了！我看了一下我的122手表，果真如此那座大钟不愿意迎接新年此时，大家已经笑了起来，同时唱起了歌不适于演奏爵士乐Lesson10Not forjazzWe havean oldmusical instrument.It is calleda（翼琴）.clavichord It was madein Germanyin

1681.OurThey haveall beenput toshame bya boywho,while playingtruant,travelled1600miles.He hitch-hiked toDover and,towards evening,wentinto a boatto find somewheretosleep.When hewoke upnextmorning,he discoveredthatthe boat had,inthemeantime,travelled toCalais.No onenoticedthe boyashecrept off.From there,he hitch-hiked toParis ina lorry.The drivergavehimafewbiscuits anda cupof coffeeand lefthim justoutsidethecity.The nextcar theboy stoppeddidnottakehiminto thecentreof Parisashehoped itwould,but toPerpignan onthe French-Spanishborder.There hewas pickedup byapolicemanandsentbacktoEngland bythelocal authorities.He hassurely setuparecord forthe thousandsofboys whodream ofevading school.逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力他们通常能够做到的，至多也就是地钓上xx一天鱼，或在电影院里坐上个小时，一遍遍地看同一部电影而有那么一个小8男孩，他在逃学期间旅行了从而使上述所有逃学的孩子们都相形见细l,600xx,了他搭便车到了多佛，天快黑时钻进了一条船，想找个地方睡觉第二天早上他醒来时，发现船在这已经到了加当男孩从船里爬出来时，谁也没有发现xx他从那里他又搭上卡车到了司机给了他几块饼干和一杯咖啡，就把他丢在XX了城外男孩截住的下一辆车，没有像他希望的那样把他带到市中心，而是xx把他带到了和边界上的佩皮他在那儿被一XXXXXX个警察抓住了，之后被当局送回了他无疑为成千上万梦想逃避上学的孩子XX们创造了一项纪录舞台之外Lesson74Out ofthe limelightAnancient busstopped bya dryriver bed andaparty offamous actorsandactresses gotoff.Dressed indark glassesand oldclothes,they hadtakenspecial precautionssothatnooneshould recognizethem.But as theysoon discovered,disguises cansometimes betoo perfect.This isawonderfulplace forapicnic,said GloriaGleam.It couldntbe better,Gloria,Brinksley Meersagreed.Nonewspaper men,no filmfans!Why dontwe comemore often’Meanwhile,two otheractors,Rockwall Slingerand Merlin Greeves,hadcarried twolarge foodbaskets toa shadyspot undersome trees.When theyhadall madethemselves comfortable,a strangerappeared.He lookedveryangry.Now yougut outof here,all ofyou!’he shouted:Im sheriffhere.〃canDo yousee thatnoticeIt saysNo Camping-in caseyoutread!’‘Look,sheriff,said Rockwall,dont betoo hardonus.rmRockwallSlinger andthis isMerlinGreeves.J Oh,is it’said thesheriff witha sneer.Well,Im BrinksleyMeers,and myother nameis GloriaGleam.Now youget outof herefast!’一辆古旧的汽车停在一条干涸的河床边，一群著名男女演员下了车他们戴着墨镜，穿着旧衣裳，特别小心以防别人认出他们但他们很快就发觉，化装的效果有时过分完美了“在这个地方野餐简直太妙了，”格格格利姆说XX.“是再好不过的了，格格米尔斯表示同意，“没有记者，没XXXXXX.有影迷！我们为什么不经常来这里呢？”“此时，另外两位演员，罗克沃尔和默林.格里夫斯，已经把两个大食.XX品篮子提到了一片树荫下当他们都已安排舒适时，一个陌生人出现了他看上去非常气愤“你们都从这里走开，全都走开！”他大叫着，“我是这里的司法长官你们看到那个布告牌了吗？上面写着‘禁止野营一一除非你们不识字！”“好了，好了，”罗克沃尔说，“别使我们难堪我是罗克xx,沃尔这位是默林.格里夫斯”.xx,“噢，是吗？”那位司法长官一声说道，“好，我就是米尔斯XX XXXX.我还有一个名字叫格格格利姆现在你们赶快滚吧！”XX.呼救信号lesson75SOSWhen alight passengerplane flewoff coursesometimeago,it crashedinthemountainsand itspilot waskilled.The onlypassengers,a youngwomanand hertwo babydaughters,were unhurt.It wasthemiddleof winter.Snow laythick ontheground.The womanknewthatthe nearestvillage wasmilesaway.When itgrew dark,she turneda suitcaseintoabedandputthe childreninside it,covering themwith allthe clothesshe couldfind.During thenight,it gotterribly cold.The womankept asnear asshe couldtothechildrenand eventriedtoget intothe caseherself,but itwastoo small.Early,nextmorningshe heardplanes passingoverhead andwonderedhow shecould senda signal.Then shehadanidea.She stampedoutthe lettersSOS inthe snow.Fortunately,a pilotsaw thesignal andsenta messageby radiotothenearest town.It wasnot longbefore ahelicopterarrived onthe sceneto rescuethe survivorsoftheplanecrash.不久前，一架轻型客机偏离了航线，在坠毁，飞行员丧生机上仅有的XX乘客，一位年轻的妇女和她的两个女婴却平安无事此时正值隆冬季节，地上积着厚厚的雪这位妇女知道，即使最近的村庄也有数英里远下来的时候，XX她把提箱当作小床，把两个孩子放了进去，又把所有能找到的衣服都盖在了孩子们身上夜里，天冷得厉害这位妇女尽可能地靠近孩子，甚至自己也想钻进箱子里去，只是箱子太小了第二天一大早，她听到头顶上有飞机飞过，但不知道怎样才能发个信号后来她有了一个主意她在雪地上踩出了这个字母“SOS”3幸运得很，一位飞行员看到这个信号，用无线电给最近的发了报不久，一xx架直升飞机飞抵飞机失事现场，来搭救这几个XX o愚人节Lesson76April FoolsDayJTo endour specialnews bulletin,said thevoiceofthe televisionJannouncer,we aretaking youtothemacaroni fieldsof Calabria.Macaronihas beengrown inthis areafor oversix hundredyears.Two ofthe leadinggrowers,Giuseppe Moldovaand RicardoBrabante,tell methattheyhave beenexpectinga splendidcrop thisyear andharvesting hasbegun earlierthanusual.Here you can seetwo workerswho,between them,havejustfinishedcutting threecart-loads ofgolden brownmacaronistalks.The wholevillage hasbeenworkingday andyearnightgathering andthreshing thiss cropbeforetheSeptember rains.On theright,youcansee Mrs Brabante herself.She hasbeen helpingherhusband forthirty yearsnow.MrsBrabanteis talkingtothemanager ofthelocal factorywhere thecrop isprocessed.This lastscene showsyouwhat willhappen attheendoftheharvest:the famousCalabrianmacaroni-eating competition!Signor Fratelli,the presentchampion,haswon itevery yearsince

1961.And thatends ourspecial bulletinfor today,Thursday,April1st.We arenow returningyoutothe studio.’“作为我们专题新闻节目的结尾，”电视广播员说，“我们现在到克拉xx的田里在这个地区已经种植了多年了两个主要种植者，xx xx600xx.xx道瓦和里卡多.布拉班特告诉我，他们一直期待着今年获得一个收割工作比xx,往年开始要早些这里您可以看到两个工人，他们协力割下了车金黄色的3xx秸全村的人都日夜奋战，要赶在月的雨季之前把今年的庄稼收获上来，打完9场在屏幕的右侧，您可以看到布拉班特太太本人，她已经帮了她的丈夫年了30布拉班特太太现在正和负责加工的当地加工厂的经理交谈这最后一个镜头xx向您展示了收获之后将发生的事情著名的克拉人吃大赛！目前的冠军弗xx xx拉特里先生，自年以来，年年获胜1991今天一月日，星期四一的专题新闻节目到此结束现在我们回到电视演播41室”一例成功的手术Lesson77A successfuloperationThe mummyofanEgyptian womanwho diedin800B.C.hasjust had anoperation.The mummyisthatof Shepenmutwhowasonceasinger inthe TempleofThebes.As therewere strangemarks onthe X-ray platestaken ofthemummy,doctors havebeen tryingto findout whetherthewoman died ofarare disease.The onlywaytodothiswastooperate.The operation,whichlasted forover fourhours,proved tobe verydifficult becauseofthehardresin whichcovered theskin.The doctorsremoved asection ofthe mummyandsentittoalaboratory.They alsofound somethingwhichtheX-ray ofthegod Duamutef.This godwhich hastheheadofacow wasnormally placedinsidea mummy.The doctorshavenotyet decidedhowthewomandied.They fearedthatthemummy wouldfall topieces when they cutit open,butfortunately thishasnothappened.The mummysuccessfully survivedtheoperation.死于公元前年的一位妇女的刚刚接受了一次手术这是曾在800xx xx xx神殿里当过歌手的赛的由于在给这个拍摄的光片子上有点奇怪的斑XX XXoxxX点，所以，医生们一直试图搞清这位妇女是否死于一种罕见的疾病搞清的唯一办法就是手术手术持续了个多小时，非常难做，因为皮肤上覆盖着一层硬4硬的树脂医生们从身上取下一个切片，送去化验他们还发现了光片所XXX没有显示的一个蜡制的特夫神小塑像这种牛头人身的神像通常被放在xxxxXX体内医生们至今还未确定这位妇女的死因他们曾担心在把切开后，它会XX散成碎片，但幸运得很，这种情况并未发生这具成功地经受了这次手术XX最后一枝吗？Lesson78The lastone5After readingan articleentitled CigaretteSmoking andYour HealthIlit acigarette tocalm mynerves.I smoked with concentrationandpleasure asIwassure thatthis wouldbe mylast cigarette.For awholeweek Ididnotsmoke atallandduring thistime,mywifesuffered terribly.Ihadalltheusual symptomsof someonegiving upsmoking:abadtemperand anenormous appetite.My friendskept onoffering mecigarettes andcigars.They madeno effortto hidetheir amusementwhenever Iproduceda packetofsweetsfrom mypocket.After sevendays ofthis Iwenttoaparty.Everybody aroundme wassmoking andIfelt extremelyuncomfortable.When myold friendBrian urgedmetoaccepta cigarette,itwasmore thanIcouldbear.Itookone guiltily,lit itandsmokedwithsatisfaction.My wifewas delightedthat thingshadreturned tonormal oncemore.Anyway,as Brianpointed out,itistheeasiest thingintheworld togive upsmoking.He himselfhas doneit lotsoftimes!读完一篇题为《吸烟与健康》的文章之后，我点上了一枝香烟,来镇定一下自己紧张的神经我聚精会神而又愉快地吸着这枝烟因为我确信这是我最后一枝烟了整整一个星期我根本没有吸烟在此期间，我妻子吃尽了苦头我具备了戒烟者通常表现出来的所有症状:脾气暴躁和食欲旺盛我的朋友们不断地向我递香烟和雪茄每当我从口袋里掏出一包糖果时，他们都毫不掩饰地表现出他们对此感到非常好笑这样过了天以后，我去参加一次聚会我周围的每个7人都在吸烟，我感到非常不自在当我的老朋友极力劝我接受一枝香烟时，xx我再也忍不住了我内疚地接过一枝点上，心满意足地抽起来一切又都恢复了正常，为此我妻子十分高兴不管怎么说，正如指出的那样，戒烟是世界上xx最容易的事情，他自己就已戒了很多次了！乘飞机Lesson79By airIusedtotravel byair agreat dealwhenIwasaboy.My parents,usedto live inSouth Americaand Iusedtofly therefrom Europein theholidays.An airhostesswould takechargeof meandInever hadan unpleasantexperience.Iamusedtotravellingby airand onlyononeoccasion haveI everfelt frightened.After takingoff,we wereflying lowoverthecity andslowly gainingheight,when theplanesuddenly turnedroundandflew backtotheairport.While wewerewaiting toland,anair-hostess toldustokeep calmandtoget offtheplane quietlyas soonas it had toucheddown.Everybody onboard wasworriedand wewere curioustofindout whathad happened.Later welearnt thattherewasavery importantperson onboard.The policehadbeentold thatabomb hadbeen plantedontheplane.After wehad landed,theplanewassearched thoroughly.Fortunately,nothing wasfound andfive hourslater wewere ableto takeoffagain.我在幼年的时候，曾多次乘飞机旅行我的父母曾经住在所以假期里我XX,常从乘飞机到他们那里我总是由一位空中乘务员照管，从未遇到过不愉快XX的经历我习惯了乘飞机旅行，只是有一次把我吓坏了起飞之后，我们在XX上空低低地飞行，然后慢慢爬高这时飞机突然调转头来，飞回了机场在我们等待降落时，一位空中乘务员告诉我们要保持镇静，待飞机一着陆，就马上不声不响地离开飞机飞机上的人都很着急，大家都急于想知道究竟出了什么事后来我们才得知，飞机上坐了一位非常重要的人物有人报告警察，说clavichordis keptintheliving-room.It hasbelonged toour familyforalong time.The instrumentwas boughtby mygrandfather manyyears ago.Recently itwasdamaged bya visitor.She triedto playjazz onit!She struckthe keystoohard andtwo ofthe stringswere broken.My fatherwas shocked.Nowwe arenot allowedto touchit.It isbeing repairedbyafriend ofmyfathers.我家有件古乐器，被称作是年造的我们的这架存放在起XX,1681XXxx居室里我们家有这件乐器已经很久了，是我祖父在很多年以前买的可它最近被一个客人弄坏了，因为她用它来弹奏爵士乐她在击琴键时用力过猛，损坏了两根琴弦我父亲大为吃惊，不许我们再动它父亲的一个朋友正在修理这件乐器礼尚往来Lesson11One goodturn deservesanotherI washaving dinneratarestaurant whenHarry Steelecamein.Harryworked ina lawyersoffice yearsago,but heisnowworking ata bank.He getsagoodsalary,but healways borrowsmoney fromhis friendsandnever paysit back.Harry sawmeandcame andsat atthesametable.Hehas neverborrowed moneyfrom me.While hewas eating,Iaskedhimtolendme twentypounds.To mysurprise,he gavemethemoney immediately.’Ihave never飞机上安放了一枚炸弹我们降落之后，飞机被彻底搜查了一遍幸运的是，什么也没有找到个小时后，我们又起飞了5水晶宫Lesson80The Crystal PalacePerhaps themost extraordinarybuilding ofthenineteenthcentury wasthe Crystal Palace,whichwasbuilt inHyde ParkfortheGreat Exhibitionof

1851.The CrystalPalace wasdifferentfromall otherbuildings intheworld,foritwas madeof ironand glass.Itwasoneofthe biggestbuildingsof alltimeandalotofpeoplefrom manycountries cametoseeit.A greatmanygoods weresent tothe exhibitionfrom variouspartsoftheworld.There wasalso agreatdealof machinery on display.The mostwonderfulpiece ofmachineryonshow wasNasmyths steamhammer.Though inthose days,travelling wasnot aseasy as itistoday,steam boatscarried thousandsofvisitors acrosstheChannelfrom Europe.On arrivinginEngland,theywere takentotheCrystalPalacebytrain.There weresix millionvisitorsin all,andtheprofits fromthe exhibitionwere usedto buildmuseums andcolleges.Later,theCrystalPalace wasmovedtoSouth London.It remainedoneofthemostfamousbuildings intheworlduntil itwas burntdown in

1936.世纪最不寻常的建筑也许要数水晶宫了，它是为年的191851“世界博览会”而建在海德公园的这座水晶宫不同于世界上所有的其他建筑，因为它是用钢和玻璃建成的它是有史以来最高大的建筑物之一，因此，人们从各个国家纷纷前来参观大量的商品从世界各地运送到了博览会，参展的还有很多机器，其中最奇妙的是内史密斯的蒸汽锤尽管在当时旅行不像现在这么容易，但汽船还是把成千上万的参观者从大陆送过了英吉利海峡一到火车就XXXX,把他们送到了水晶宫参观的人数总共是万博览会的赢利用来建造博物馆600和高等学校后来，“水晶宫”被移到了南部在年被焚毁之前，它xx1936一直是世界上最著名的建筑物之一脱逃Lesson81EscapeWhen hehad killedthe guard,the prisonerof warquickly draggedhiminto thebushes.Working rapidlyinthedarkness,he soonchanged intothedead mansclothes.Now,dressedina blueuniform andwitharifle overhisshoulder,the prisonermarched boldlyup anddowninfront ofthe camp.He couldhear shoutinginthecamp itself.Lights wereblazing andmen wererunninghere andthere:they hadjust discoveredthataprisoner hadescaped.At thatmoment,alargeblack carwith fourofficers insideit,stoppedat thecamp gates.The officersgotout andthe prisonerstood toattention andsaluted asthey passed.Whenthey hadgone,the driverofthecar cametowardshim.The manobviouslywanted totalk.He wasrather elderlywith greyhair andclear blueeyes.The prisonerfelt sorryforhim,but therewas nothingelse hecould do.As theman camenear,the prisonerknocked himtotheground witha sharpblow.Then,jumping intothecar,he droveoff asquickly ashecould.那个战俘杀死卫兵以后，迅速地把尸体拖进了灌木丛他在黑暗中忙活了一阵儿，很快就换上了死者的衣服现在他身穿军装，肩扛步枪，在军营门XX前大胆地来回走看他听得军营里面的喧闹声那里灯米通明，人们在东奔西跑他们刚刚发现有一个俘虏跑了正在此时，一辆黑色大轿车在军营门口停了下来里面坐了个军官军官们下了车，战俘立正站好，并在他们从他面前经过时4敬了礼他们走后，汽车司机向他走来，这人显然是想聊天他上了年纪，有着灰白的头发和明亮的眼睛战俘为他感到惋惜，但却没有别的选择当这个xx人走近时，战俘一拳把他打倒在地，然后跳进车里，以最快的速度把车开走了是妖还是鱼？Lesson82Monster orfishFishermen andsailors sometimesclaim tohave seenmonsters inthesea.Though peoplehave oftenlaughed atstories toldby seamen,itisnowknown thatmanyofthese monsterswhichhave attimes beensighted aresimply strangefish.Occasionally,unusual creaturesare washedtotheshore,but theyarerarely caughtout atsea.Some timeago,however,a peculiarfish wascaughtnear Madagascar.A smallfishing-boat wascarried milesouttosea bythepowerful fishasitpulled onthe line.Realizing thatthiswasno ordinaryfish,the fishermanmade everyeffort notto damageitinany way.Whenit waseventually broughtto shore,itwasfound tobe overthirteen feetlong.It hada headlikeahorse,big blueeyes,shining silverskin,anda brightred tail,The fish,which hassince beensent toa museumwhereit isbeing examinedbyascientist,iscalledan oarfish.Such creatureshaverarely beenseen aliveby manastheylive ata depthofsixhundredfeet.渔夫和水手们有时声称自己看到过海里的妖怪虽然人们常常对水手们讲的故事付诸一笑，但现在看来，人们有时看到的这些“妖怪”很多不过是些奇怪的鱼一些异常的生物偶尔会被冲到岸上来，但它们在海上却极少能被捕到然而不久前，在马达加斯加附近的海里却捕到了一条奇怪的鱼一条小渔船被一条咬住钩的强壮的大鱼拖到了几英里以外的海面上那位渔民意识到这根本不是一条普通的鱼，于是千方百计不让它受到丝毫伤害当终于把它弄上岸后，人们发现它身长超过了英尺它长着一个像马一样的头，有着大的蓝眼睛和13闪闪发光的银色皮肤，还有一条鲜红色的尾巴此鱼叫桨鱼，被送进了博物馆，现正接受一位科学家的检查人们很少能看到活着的这类动物，因为它们生活在英尺深的水下600大选之后Lesson83After theelectionsThe formerPrime Minister,Mr WentworthLane,was defeatedin therecentelections.He isnow retiringfrom political life andhas goneabroad.Myfriend,Crawley,has alwaysbeenafanatical opponentof Mr LanesRadical ProgressiveParty.After theelections,Crawley wenttotheformerPrime Ministershouse.When heaskedifMr Lanelived there,the policemanonduty toldhimthatsince hisdefeat,the ex-Prime Ministerhad goneabroad.On thefollowingday,Crawley wenttothehouse again.The samepolicemanwasjustwalking slowlypast theentrance,when Crawleyaskedthe same question.Though alittle suspiciousthistime,the policemangavehim thesame answer.The dayafter,Crawley wenttothehouse oncemoreand askedexactly thesamequestion.This time,thepolicemanlosthis5temper.I toldyou yesterdayandthe day beforeyesterday,he shouted,MrLanewas defeatedintheelections.He has，retired frompoliticallifeand gonetoliveabroad!I know,‘answeredJCrawley,but Ilove tohear yousay it!’前首相兹.莱恩先生在最近的大选中被击败他现在退出了政界，到国XX外去了我的朋友帕特里克一直是莱恩先生的激进党的强烈反对者大选结束后，帕特里克来到了前首相的住处当他询问莱恩先生是否住在那里时，值班的警察告诉他这位前首相落选后出国去了第二天，帕特里克再次来到首相的住处昨天的那位警察正从门口慢慢走过，帕特里克上前问了和昨天同样的问题虽然那位警察这次有点疑心，但还是对他作了同样的回答第三天，帕特里克又去了，提出了同前两天完全一样的问题这一次警察火了“我昨天和前天都告诉过您了，”他大叫着，“莱恩先生在大选中被击败了，他已经退出了政界去国外了！”“这我都知道，”帕特里克说，“可我就是喜欢听你说出这此！”罢工Lesson84On strikeBusmenhavedecidedtogoon strikenext week.The strikeis duetobegin onTuesday.No oneknows howlong itwill last.The busmenhave statedthatthe strikewill continueuntil generalagreement isreached aboutpayand workingconditions.Most peoplebelieve thatthe strikewill lastfor atleast aweek.Manyowners ofprivate carsaregoingto offerfree ridesto peopleon theirwayto work.This willrelieve pressureonthetrains tosome extent.Meanwhile,anumberof universitystudents havevolunteered todrive buseswhilethe strikelasts.All theyoung menare expertdrivers,but beforetheydrive anyofthebuses,theywillhavetopass aspecial test.Thestudents aregoingtotake thetest intwo daystime.Even so,people aregoingtofindit difficulttogettowork.But sofar,the publichasexpressed itsgratitude tothe studentsin letterstothePress.Only oneortwo peoplehave objectedthatthestudents willdrive toofast!公共汽车司机决定下星期罢工罢工定于星期二开始，谁也不知道会持续多久司机们声称此次罢工将一直持续到就工资和工作条件问题达成全面协议的时候为止多数人认为此次罢工至少会持续一个星期很多私人汽车的车主正准备为乘车上班的人们提供“免费乘车”的服务，这将在某种程度上减轻对火车的压力与此同时，有一部分大学生自愿在罢工期间驾驶公共汽车所有的学生都是开车的能手，但在驾驶公共汽车之前，他们必须通过一项专门测验学生们准备在两天后就接受测验即使这样，人们仍会感到上班有困难但到目前为止，公众已经向新闻界写信表达他们对学生们的感激之情了只有一两个人提出反对意见，说学生们会把车开得太快！活到老学到老Lesson85Never tooold tolearnI havejust receivedaletterfrommyold schoolinforming methatmy formerhead-master,Mr RegmaidPage,willberetiring nextweek.Pupilsof theschool,oldandnew,willbesending hima present to marktheoccasion.All thosewhohavecontributed towardsthe giftwill signtheirnames inalargealbum whichwillbesenttothe headmaster^s home.Weshall allremember Mr Page forhis patienceand understandingand forthekindly encouragementhe gaveus whenwe wentso unwillinglytoschool.Agreat manyformer pupilswillbeattending afarewell dinnerinhishonournext Thursday.It isa curiouscoincidence thatthedaybefore hisretirement,MrPagewillhavebeen teachingforatotal offorty years.After hehas retired,hewilldevote himselfto gardening.For him,thiswill bean entirelynew hobby.But thisdoesnotmatter,for,ashehasoften remarked,one isnever tooold tolearn.我刚刚收到母校的一封信，通知我说以前的校长斯图亚特.佩奇先生下星期就退休了为了纪念这个日子，学校的学生一一无论老同学还是新同学一一将送他一件礼物所有凑钱买此礼品的人都将自己的名字签在一本大签名簿上，签名簿将被送到校长的家里我们不会忘记佩奇先生对我们既有耐心又充满理解，也不会忘记在我们不愿去上学时他给予我们的亲切鼓励很多老同学都准备参加下星期四为他举行的告别宴会佩奇先生退休的前一天正好是他执教满年的日40子，这真是奇妙的巧合他退休后，将致力于园艺对于他来说，这将是一种全新的爱好但这没有关系，因为正如他常说的那样，人要活到老学到老失控Lesson86Out ofcontrolAs theman triedto swingthe speed-boat round,the steering-wheelcame awayinhishands.He waveddesperately tohis companion,who hadbeenwater-skiing forthe lastfifteen minutes.Both menhadhardlyhad timetorealize whatwas happeningwhentheywere thrownviolently intothesea.The speed-boathadstruck abuoy,but itcontinued tomove veryquicklyacross thewater.Both menhadjustbegun toswim towardstheshore,whenthey noticedwith dismaythatthespeed-boat wasmoving ina circle.Itnow camestraight towardsthemattremendous speed.In lessthanaminute,it roaredpast themonlyafew feetaway.After ithadpassed,they swamonasquicklyastheycould becausetheyknewthatthe boat wouldsoon return.They hadjusthadenough timetoswimoutofdanger whentheboatagaincompleted acircle.On thisoccasion,however,ithadslowed downconsiderably.The petrolhadnearlyall beenused up.Before long,the noisedroppedcompletely andtheboatbegantodrift gentlyacrossthewater.当那人试图让快艇转弯时，方向盘脱手了他绝望地向他的伙伴挥手，他的伙伴在过去的分钟里一直在滑水他们两个还没来得及意识到究竟发生了15什么事情，就被猛地抛入了海里快艇撞上了一个浮标，但它仍在水面上快速行驶着两个人刚开始向岸边游去，就突然惊愕地发现快艇正在转着圈行驶，它现在正以惊人的速度直冲他们驶来不到分钟的工夫，它从离他们只有几英尺远1的地方呼啸着驶了过去快艇过去之后，他们以最快的速度向前游去，因为他们知道快艇马上就要转回来他们刚刚来得及游出危险区，快艇就又转完了一圈然而这一次它的速度慢多了汽油几乎已经用光没过多久，噪音便彻底消失，快艇开始在水面上慢悠悠地漂流极好的不在犯罪现场的证据Lesson87A perfectalibiAt thetimethemurder wascommitted,Iwastravelling onthe

8.0Jo clocktrain toLondon,said theman.Doyoualways catchsuch anearly trainasked theinspector.。