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yet! Leson29 Taxi! 出租汽車! Captai n Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new ser vice. The 39。taxi39。 i s a sm al l Swiss aeroplane caled a 39。Pil at us Port er 39。. This wonderf ul plane can car y seven passenger s. The most surpr ising t hing about i t, however , is t hat it can l and anywhere: on snow, wat er , or even on a pl oughed fi eld. Capt ain Fawcet 39。s f ir st pasenger was a doctor who f lew fr om Bi rm ingham t o a lonely vi l a ge i n t he Welsh mount ai ns. Since t hen, Captain Fawcet has fl own passenger s to m any unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lat s and on anot her occasion, he landed in a deser ted car par k. Capt ain Fawcet has just r efused a str ange r equest f rom a busi nessman. The m an wanted to fl y to Rockal , a lonely i sland in the At lanti c Ocean, but Capt ai n Fawcet t did not take him because the t ri p was too danger ous. Leson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球? The Wayl e is a smal l r iver that cut s acr oss the park near my home. I li ke si t ing by t he Wayle on fi ne af ter noons. I t was warm l ast Sunday, so I went and sat on t he ri ver bank as usual. Some chil dren wer e playing games on t he bank and t her e were some people r owing on t he ri ver . Suddenly, one of the chil dr e n kicked a bal ver y hard and i t went t owards a passi ng boat . Some people on the bank cal led out to t he man i n the boat, but he di d not hear them. The bal str uck hi m so hard that he nearl y f el l int o the wat er . I tur ned t o l ook at t he chi ldr en, but t her e we r en39。t any i n sight: t hey had al r un away! The man laughed when he r eal ized what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chil dren and thr ew t he bal l back t o the bank. Leson31 Success st ory 成功者的故事 Yester day af ter noon Fr ank Hawkins was t el li ng me about hi s experi ences as a young m an. Fr ank i s now t he head of a very large busines pany, but as a boy he used t o wor k in a sm al l shop. It was his job t o repair bicycles and at hat t im e he used t o work fourt een hour s a day. He saved money for year s and in 1938 he bought a smal l wor kshop of his own. Duri ng the war Fr ank used t o make spar e par ts f or aer oplanes. At that ti me he had two hel pers. By the end of the war , the smal wor kshop had bee a l arge f act or y whi ch em ployed seven hundr ed and twenty ei ght people. Frank smil ed when he remember ed hi s hard earl y year s and the l ong road t o succes. He was sti l smil ing when t he door opened and hi s wif e came in. She wanted hi m t o r epair t hei r son39。s bi cycl e! Leson32 Shoppi ng made easy 購(gòu)物變得很方便 People ar e not so honest as they once were. The tempt at ion t o steal i s greater than ever bef ore especial y in large shops. A det ect ive r ecentl y watched a wel dr esed woman who al ways went i nt o a l arge stor e on Monday morni ngs. One Monday, there wer e fewer peopl e in the shop than usual when the woman came in, so it was easi er f or the detecti ve to wat ch her . The woman fi r st bought a f ew smal art icl es. Af ter a li t le t im e, she chose one of the most expensi ve dresses i n the shop and handed it t o an asistant who wr apped i t up for her as qui ckl y as possible. Then the wom an si mply took the par cel and walked out of t he shop wi thout payi ng. When she was ar rest ed, t he det ect ive f ound out t hat the shopassi st ant was her daughter . The gi rl 39。 gave39。 her mother a f ree dr ess once a week ! l eson33 Out of the darknes 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed bef ore t he gir l was abl e to explain what had happened to her . One aft er noon she set out f rom the coast i n a smal boat and was caught in a st orm. Towar ds evening, the boat st ruck a r ock and t he gir l jumped int o the sea. Then she swam t o the shore af ter spending t he whole night i n the wat er . Duri ng that ti me she cover ed a di stance of ei ght mi les. Ear ly next mor ni ng, she saw a l ight ahead. She knew she was near t he shore because t he li ght was hi gh up on the cli f s. On ar ivi ng at t he shor e, t he gi rl str uggled up t he cl if f towards t he li ght she had seen. That was al she remember ed. When she woke up a day lat er , she f ound her sel f in hospit al . Lesson34 Q uick work 破案“神速” Ted Robi nson has been worr ied al t he week. Last Tuesday he r ecei ved a l et er f r om t he l ocal poli ce. I n the l et ter he was asked t o cal l at t he st ati on. Ted wondered why he was want ed by t he poli ce, but he went t o t he st ati on yest erday and now he i s not wor ri ed any m ore. At t he st ati on, he was t ol d by a sm il ing poli cem an t hat hi s bicycl e had been f ound. Fi ve days ago, t he pol iceman t ol d him , t he bicycl e was pi cked up i n a sm al vil lage f our hundr ed mi les away. I t is now bei ng sent t o hi s hom e by t rai n. Ted was m ost sur pri sed when he heard t he news. He was am used too, because he never expect ed t he bi cycl e t o be f ound. It was st ol en t went y year s ago when Ted was a boy of f if t en ! Lesson35 St op t hi ef ! 捉賊! Rov Tr ent on used t o dr ive a t axi . A shor t whil e ago, however , he became a bus dr i ver and he was not r egr et t ed i t. He i s f indi ng hi s new wor k far m or e exci ti ng. When he was dr i vi ng al ong Catf or d St reet re cent ly, he saw t wo thi eves r ush out of a shop and r un towar ds a wai ti ng car . One of t hem was car ryi ng a bag f ull of money. Roy act ed qui ckl y and drove t he bus str ai ght at t he thi eves. The one wi t h t he money got such a fr ight that he dropped the bag. As the t hi eves wer e tr ying t o get away i n t hei r car , Roy dr ove his bus int o the back of it . Whil e the bat ered car was moving away, Roy st opped hi s bus and t el ephoned the pol ice. The t hieves39。 car was badly damaged and easy to recogni ze. Short ly af terwar ds, t he pol ice stopped the ca