【正文】 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new servi ce. The 39。t axi 39。 i s a smal Swi s aeropl ane cal ed a 39。Pi latus Port er39。. Thi s wonder ful plane can car ry seven passengers. The most sur pr isi ng thing about it, however , is t hat i t can l and anywhere: on snow, wat er, or even on a pl oughed f ield. Captain Fawcet t39。s f ir st passenger was a doctor who fl ew fr om Bir mingham t o a l onel y vil lage in the Wel sh mount ains. Si nce then, Captai n Fawcet t has f lown passenger s t o many unusual pl aces. Once he l anded on t he roof of a block of fl ats and on another occasi on, he l anded in a desert ed car park. Captain Fawcet t has j ust ref used a str ange request fr om a businessm an. The man wanted t o f ly t o Rockal l, a l onel y island i n the At l ant ic Ocean, but Captain Fawcet did not t ake hi m because t he tr ip was t oo dangerous. Lesson30 Footbal l or pol o? 足球還是水球？ The Wayle i s a smal ri ver t hat cuts acr oss t he par k near my home. I l ike sit ti ng by the Wayl e on f ine aft ernoons. I t was war m l ast Sunday, so I went and sat on t he ri ver bank as usual. Some chi ldren wer e playing games on t he bank and t her e were some people r owing on the r iver. Suddenly, one of the chil dren kicked a bal very hard and it went towards a passi ng boat . Som e 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 har d that he near ly f el int o the wat er. I tur ned to l ook at t he chi ldr en, but there wer en39。t any i n sight: t hey ha d al r un away! The man laughed when he r ealized what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chil dren and t hr ew t he bal l back t o the ba nk. Lesson31 Success st ory 成功者的故事 Yest erday aft er noon Frank Hawkins was t eli ng me about hi s exper iences as a young man. Fr ank is now the head of a ver y lar ge business pany, but as a boy he used to wor k i n a smal shop. I t was hi s job t o r epair bi cyc les and at that ti me he used t o wor k f our teen hour s a day. He saved money f or years and i n 1938 he bought a sm al l work shop of his own. Dur ing t he war Frank used t o make spar e part s f or aer opl anes. At t hat ti me he had t wo helpers. By t he end of t he war, the smal l wor kshop had bee a large f act ory whi ch employed seven hundr ed and twenty eight people. Frank smi led when he r em em ber ed his hard ear ly years and t he l ong road t o succes. He was sti l smil ing when the door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She wanted hi m t o r epair t hei r son39。s bi cycl e! Lesson32 Shopping m ade easy 購物變得很方便 People ar e not so honest as they once were. The tempt at ion t o steal is gr eater t han ever bef oreespecial y i n lar ge shops. A det ect ive r ecentl y watched a wel l dr esed woman who al ways went i nto a large stor e on Monday mor ni ngs. One Monday, there wer e f ewer people i n the shop than usual when t he woman cam e in, so it was easi er f or the detecti ve to wat ch her . The woman f ir st bought a f ew smal ar ti cl es. Af ter a l it le tim e, she chose one of the m ost expensive dresses i n the shop and handed it t o an asi st ant who wr apped it up f or her as qui ckl y as possibl e. Then t he woman si mpl y took t he par cel and walked out of t he shop wi t hout paying. When she was ar est ed, the det ecti ve found out that the shop asistant was her daughter. The gir l39。 gave39。 her mother a fr ee dress once a week ! l esson33 O ut of t he darkness 沖出黑暗 Near ly a wek passed befor e the gi rl was able t o expl ain what had happened to her . One af ter noon she set out fr om t he coast in a sm al l boat and was caught in a st or m. Towards evening, t he boat str uck a rock and t he gi rl j umped into the sea. Then she swam to the shor e aft er spendi ng the whol e night in t he water . Dur ing that ime she covered a di st ance of eight mi les. Earl y next morning, she saw a li ght ahead. She knew she was near the shore because the l ight was high up on t he cli f s. On ar ri ving at the shore, the gi rl str uggl ed up the cli f t owards t he light she had seen. That was al l she r emembered. When she woke up a day later , she f ound her self i n hospi tal. Lesson34 Qui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been worr ied al l t he week. Last Tuesday he recei ved a let er f r om t he local poli ce. I n the l et er he was asked t o cal at the stati on. Ted wonder ed why he was wanted by t he police, but he went to the stati on yest er day and now he is not wor ri ed any m or e. At the stati on, he was t old by a sm il ing poli ceman t hat hi s bicycl e had been f ound. Five days ago, t he pol iceman tol d him , t he bicycl e was picked up in a smal vil lage four hundr e d mi les away. I t is now bei ng sent to hi s hom e by tr ain. Ted was most sur pr ised when he hear d t he news. He was amused too, because he never expect ed the bicycle t o be f ound. It was stol en twenty year s ago when Ted was a boy of f if teen ! Leson35 Stop t hief ! 捉賊！ Rov Trenton used to dr ive a t axi. A short whi le ago, however, he became a bus dr iver and he was not r egret ed it . He is f indi ng hi s new wor k f ar m or e exci ti ng. When he was dri vi ng along Catf ord St reet recent ly, he saw two thi eves r ush out of a shop and r un towar ds a wait ing car. One of them was car ryi ng a bag ful l of money. Roy act ed qui ckl y and drove t he bus str aight at he thi eves. The one wi th the money got such a f ri ght t hat he dr opped t he bag. As t he thieves were t ryi ng to get away i n t heir car, Roy dr ove hi s bus i nto t he back of i t. Whi le the bater ed car was m ovi ng away, Roy stopped his bus and telephoned the poli ce. The thi eves39。 car was badl y dam aged and easy to r ecognize. Shor tl y aft er wards, the poli ce st opped t he car and both m en were ar rested. Lesson36 Acro