【正文】 ay in hospi t al f or anot her t wo weeks. Then Dr Mi l ingt on asked t he cal l er i f he was a r el at ive of t he pati ent .39。 No,39。 t he pat ient answer e d,39。 I am Mr John Gil ber t. 39。 Lesson40 Food and t al k 進餐與交談 Last week at a di nner part y, the host es asked m e t o si t next t o Mr s Rumbol d. Mr s Rum bol d was a l ar ge, unsm il ing l ady i n a t i ght black dress. She di d not even look up when I t ook m y seat besi de her . Her eyes wer e fi xed on her pl at e and i n a shor t im e, she was busy eati ng. I t ri ed t o m ake conversat i on. 39。 A new play i s i ng t o The Globe soon,39。 I sai d. 39。Wi l you be seeing i t ?39。 39。 No,39。 she answered. 39。Wi l you be spendi ng your holi days abr oad t hi s year ?39。 I asked. 39。 No,39。 she answer ed. 39。 Wi l you be st ayi ng i n Engl and?39。 I asked. 39。 No, 39。 she answered. I n despai r, I asked her whether she was enj oyi ng her di nner. 39。 Young man,39。 she answered,39。 if you at e m or e and t alked l ess, we woul d bot h enj oy our di nner !39。 l esson41 Do you cal l t hat a hat ? 你把那個叫帽子嗎？ 39。Do you cal t hat a hat ?39。 I said t o m y wif e. 39。You needn39。t be so r ude about it ,39。 my wi f e answer ed as she l ooked at her self i n t he m ir r or . I sat down on one of t hose modern chair s wit h holes i n it and wait ed. We had been i n t he hat shop f or half an hour and m y wi fe was sti l i n f ront of t he mi r or. 39。 We m ust n39。t buy thi ngs we don39。t need, 39。 I remar ked suddenl y. I r egr et t ed saying i t al most at once. 39。You needn39。t have sai d t hat ,39。 m y wif e answer ed. 39。 I need not remi nd you of t hat t er i bl e ti e you bought yest er day.39。 39。 I fi nd it beaut if ul,39。 I said. 39。A man can never have t oo i nt o t he cave hopi ng t o fi nd buri ed tr easure. The leader of t he par ty was exam i ni ng t he soil near t he ent r ance t o the cave when the machi ne showed t hat there was gol d under t he gr ound. Ver y exci ted, t he part y dug a hole t wo f eet deep. They f i nal y f ound a sm al l gol d coi n whi ch was al m ost wort hl es. The par t y then sear ched t he whol e cave thor oughly but di d not f ind anyt hi ng except an empt y ti n tr unk. I n spi t e of t his, m any peopl e ar e confi dent t hat 39。The Reveal er 39。 m ay r eveal somet hi ng of val ue fair l y soon. Leson56 Fast er than sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a r ace i s hel d f or ol d car s. A l ot of car s enter ed f or thi s race last year and t here was a gr eat deal of exci t em e nt j ust bef or e i t began. One of the m ost handsom e car s was a Rol ls Royce Sil ver Ghost. The m ost unusual car was a Benz whi ch had onl y thr e wheels. Buil t in 1885, i t was t he ol dest car t aki ng par t. Af t er a gr eat m any l oud expl osi ons, t he r ace began. Many of t he car s broke down on t he cour se and som e dri vers spent m or e ti me under t hei r car s t han i n t hem ! A f ew car s, however , pl et ed t he r ace. The wi nni ng car r eached a speed of f or t y m il es an hour much f ast er t han any of it s r ivals. It sped downhil l at he end of the r ace and it s dri ver had a l ot of t r oubl e t r yi ng t o st op it . The race gave ever yone a gr eat deal of pleasur e. I t was ver y dif f er ent f r om m odern car r aces but no l es excit ng. Lesson57 Can I hel p you, m adam? 你 要 買什么，夫人？ A woman i n blue j eans stood at the wi ndow of an expensive shop. Though she hesi tat ed for a moment , she f inal y went i n and asked t o se a dr es t hat was i n t he window. The assistant who ser ved her di d not l ike t he way she was dr esed. Gl anci ng at her scor nful ly, he tol d her t hat t he dres was sold. The woman wal ked out of the shop angr il y and deci ded to punish t he assistant next da y. She r et urned t o the shop the f oll owi ng mor ning dr essed in a fur coa esson33 O ut of t he darkness 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed bef or e t he 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 i n a st or m. Towar ds eveni ng, t he boat str uck a r ock and t he gi rl j um ped int o the sea. Then she swam t o t he shor e aft er spendi ng t he whol e night in t he water. Dur i ng t hat t im e she covered a di st ance of eight m il es. Earl y next m orni ng, she saw a li ght ahead. She knew she was near t he shore because t he l i ght was high up on t he cli f s. On ar ri ving at t he shore, t he gi rl str uggl ed up the cli f t owards t he l i ght she had seen. That was al l she r em em bered. When she woke up a day lat er, she f ound her self i n hospi tal. Lesson34 Q ui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robi nson has been worr ied al t he week. Last Tuesday he r ecei ved a let 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 smal vil lage f our hundr ed m i 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 years 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 egr et ed it . He is f inding hi s new wor k far m or e exci ti ng. When he was dr ivi ng along Catf ord St reet re cent 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 t he thi eves. The one wi th the mone