【正文】 39。 We mustn39。t buy t hings we don39。t need,39。 I r em ar ked suddenly. I regret ted sayi ng it alm ost at once. 39。You needn39。t have sai d that, 39。 my wi fe answered.39。 I need not r em ind you of that ter ri bl e ti e you bought yest er day. 39。 39。 I f ind i t beauti ful, 39。 I said. 39。A man can never have too i nto t he cave hoping t o fi nd buri ed tr easure. The leader of t he par ty was examini ng the soil near t he ent rance to the cave when the machine showed that here was gold under the gr ound. Very excit ed, t he par ty dug a hol e two feet deep. They fi nal ly f ound a sm al l gol d coin whi ch was almost wort hless. The part y then sear ched t he whole cave thoroughly but did not f ind anything except an empt y ti n tr unk. I n spit e of this, many peopl e ar e confi dent that 39。The Reveal er 39。 may r eveal som et hi ng of value f ai rl y soon. Lesson56 Faster t han sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a r ace i s held f or ol d cars. A l ot of cars enter ed for t hi s race l ast year and there was a great deal of excit eme nt j ust befor e it began. One of the m ost handsome cars was a Rol ls Royce Si lver Ghost . The m ost unusual car was a Benz whi ch had onl y thr e wheel s. Buil t in 1885, it was the ol dest car t aki ng par t. Af t er a gr eat many l oud expl osions, the r ace began. Many of t he car s broke down on t he cour se and some dri vers spent mor e ti me under t heir car s t han i n t hem ! A f ew cars, howeve r , pl et ed the r ace. The winni ng car r eached a speed of for ty mil es an hour much faster than any of it s ri val s. I t sped downhil l at t he end of t he race and it s dri ver had a l ot of t rouble t ryi ng to st op it . The r ace gave ever yone a great deal of pl easure. It was very dif ferent fr om moder n car aces but no less exci ti ng. Leson57 Can I help you, madam? 你要買什么，夫人？ A woman in bl ue jeans stood at the wi ndow of an expensive shop. Though she hesi t ated f or a m oment , she f inal y went in and asked to see a dress that was in t he wi ndow. The assi st ant who served her did not li ke the way she was dressed. Gl ancing at her scornf ull y, he t ol d her that the dress was sol d. The woman walked out of t he shop angri ly and decided to puni sh the asi st ant next day. She retur ned to t he shop t he fol lowi ng morni ng dr esed i n a fur coat, wi th a handbag i n one hand and a long umbr el la i n t he ot her . Af ter seeking out the r ude assistant she asked for the same dr ess. Not r eal izi ng who she was, the assi stant was eager t o serve her this t im e wi th gr eat dif fi cul ty, he cli mbed int o the shop window to get the dr ess. As soon as she saw it , the woman said s many ti es.39。 39。And a woman can39。t have t oo many hat s, 39。 she answer ed. Ten minutes l at er we walked out of t he shop t oget her . My wi f e was wear i ng a hat t hat l ooked l ike a l ighthouse ! Lesson42 Not very musical 并非很懂音樂 As we had had a long wal k t hr ough one of t he markets of Ol d Del hi , we stopped at a squar e t o have a rest. Af ter a t i m e, we noti ced a snakechar mer wi th t wo l arge baskets at the ot her side of t he square, so we went to have a l ook at him . As soon as he saw us, he pi cked up a long pipe whi ch was covered wi t h coi ns and opened one of t he baskets. When he began t o play a tune, we had our f ir st gli mpse of the snake. It r ose out of the basket and began t o fol low the movements of the pi pe. We were ver y much sur pri sed when t he snake char mer suddenly began to pl ay jazz tunes and moder n pop songs. The snake, however, cont inued to 39。dance39。 sl owl y. It obviously could not tel l t he dif fer ence between I ndi an musi c and jazz! Lesson43 O ver t he South Pole 飛越南極 In 1929, three years af ter his f li ght over the Nor th Pol e, t he Ameri can explor er, R. E. Byrd, succesful ly f lew over t he Sout h Pole f or the f ir st t ime. Though, at fi rst, Byr d and his men wer e able t o take a gr eat many photographs of the mountai ns t hat l ay bel ow, they soon ran i nt o ser ious t rouble. At one poi nt, it seemed cer tain that their plane would cr ash. I t could onl y get over t he m ount ai ns if i t rose to 10, 000 f eet. Byrd at once ordered hi s men to throw out t wo heavy food sacks. The plane was then able t o ri se and it cleared t he mount ains by 400 feet. Byr d now knew t hat he woul d be abl e to reach the South Pol e which was 300 m iles away, for ther e were no m ore mount ai ns in sight . The ai rcr af t was abl e to fl y over t he endl ess whi te plai ns wit hout dif fi cul ty. Lesson44 Through t he forest 穿過森林 Mr s Anne Ster li ng did not thi nk of t he ri sk she was t aking when she ran t hrough a f or est af ter two men. They had r ushed up to her whi le she was havi ng a piic at t he edge of a f orest wi th her chil dren and tr ied t o steal her handbag. In t he str uggl e, t he st rap br oke and, wit h the bag i n thei r possessi on, bot h men star ted r unning through t he tr es. Mr s Sterl ing got so angr y t hat she ran aft er them. She was soon out of br eat h, but she cont inued to r un. When she caught up wit h them, she saw that they had sat down and were goi ng thr ough t he cont ent s of the bag, so she ran str aight at hem. The men got such a f r ight that they dropped the bag and ran away. 39。The str ap needs mending,39。 sai d Mr s Ster li ng later , 39。but t hey di d not st eal anything.39。 Leson45 A cl ear consci ence 問心無愧 The whole vi l age soon learnt t hat a l ar ge sum of money had been l ost . Sam Benton, the local but cher , had l ost his wal let whil e t aki ng his savi ngs t o t he post off ice. Sam was sure t hat t he walet must have been found by one of the vi l agers, but i t was not r etur ned t o him . Thr ee months pased, and t hen one m or ning, Sam f ound hi s wal et outsi de hi s fr ont door . I t had been wr apped up i n newspaper and it