【正文】 ngland had issued two notes in this amount… Anyway, I don’t think it can be a fake. People would pay too nuch attention to a bank note of this amount. No thief would want that to happen.Hostess: But he’s in rags!Owner: Perhaps he’s a very strange, rich man. ( as if he has discovered something for the first time) Why,yes! That must be it!Hostess: (hits her husband’s arm) And you put him in the back of the restaurant! Go an see him at one.Owner: ( to Henry) I’m sorry, sir, so sorry, but I cannot change this bank note.Henry: But it’s all I have on me.Owner: Oh, please, don’t worry, sir. Doesn39。t matter at all. We’re so very glad that you even entered our little eating place. Indeed, sir, I hope you’ll e here whenever you like.Henry: Well, that39。s very knd of you.Owner: Kind, sir? No, it’s kind of you. You must e whenever you want and have whatever you like. Just having you sit here is a great honour! As for the bill, sir, please forget it.Henry: Forget it? Well… thank you very much. That39。s very nice of you.Owner: Oh, it’s for US to thank you, sir and I do, sir, from the bottom of my heart. (the owner, hostess and waiter all bow as Henry leaves)Act Ⅱ, Scene 4Narrator: at the end of the month, Henry was very rich and didn39。t fear jail. Dressed in the finest clothes, he drove by the brothers’ house in Portland Place and, seeing they were back, went to get Portia at her friennd’s home.Henry: My dear, the way you look today, it would be a crime not to ask for a good salary for the job they’ll give to me.Portia: Oh, please remember that if we ask for too much we may get no salary at all。 and then what’ll happen to us, with no way in the world to earn a living?( At the brothers’ home, the servant lets them in. the two brothers are seated,waiting.)Henry: Good morning,gentlemen .( Rodrick seems very surprised to see Portia) Portia, these are the men who helped me.Portia: So vary nice to meet you, kind sirs. ( She gives Oliver a wink with one eye.)Roderick: Er…Portia, I …Oliver: We’re both glad to hear it, for now we can decide the bet which Roderick and I made. If you’ve won for me, you shall have any job as my gift. Have you got the million pound bank note?Henry: Here it is, sir.Oliver: I’ve won! Now what do you say, Roderick?Roderick: I say that I’ve lost twenty thousand pounds. I never would have believed it. Why, that is amazing, man!Henry: Come, let’s be going now, Portia.Oliver: But wait, wait! The job, you know. I must give you a job, as I promised.Henry: Well, thank you very much, but I really don’t want one now.Portia: Henry, I’m disappointed in you. You didn39。t thank the gentlemen properly. May I do it for you?Henry: Let me see you try.(Portia walks over to Roderick and gives him a hug. Then she sits in Oliver’s lap, puts her arms around his nevk and kisses him on the cheek. Oliver begins laughing.)Portia: Papa,he says he doesn39。t want anything else from you.Henry: (shocked) My dear, is that your papa?Portia: He’s my step father, and the dearest one that ever was.Henry: Oh, my dearest dear sir, I regret what I said. You have got a job open that I want.Oliver: Name it.Henry: Soninlaw.Oliver: Well, well,well! But you’ve never had such a job before. How can it be sure you can do it successfully?Henry: Try me… oh,do, I beg of you! Give me 30 or 40 years , and …Oliver: Oh, well, all right.Narrator: Are Portia and Henry happy? There are not enough word in the biggest dictionary to describe it. Did the people of London have a good time with this bit of news? Yes. Portia’s stepfather took that bank note back to the Bank of England and cashed it. The bank note was then useless for money but was his wedding gift to the young couple. Yes, the bank note was worth millions of dollars, but not worth on tenthe as much as how Henry felt about Portia .Unit 4How life began on the earthNo have just finished cutting three cartloads of golden brownmacaroni stalks. The whole village has been working day and night gathering and threshing this year39。s crop before the September rains. On the right, you can see Mrs Brabante herself. She has been helping her husband for thirty years now. Mrs Brabante is talking to the manager of the local factory where the crop is processed. This last scene shows you what will happen at the end of the harvest : the famous Calabrian macaronieating petition ! Signor Fratelli, the present champion, has won it every year since 1961. And that ends our special bulletin for today, Thursday, April 1st. We are now returning you to the studio.39。Lesson77 A successful operation 一例成功的手術(shù)The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died in 800 . has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As there were strange marks on the Xray plates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying to find out whether the woman died of a rare disease. The only way to do this was to operate. The operation, which lasted for over four hours, proved to be very difficult because of the hard resin which covered the skin. The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a laboratory. They also found something which the Xray of the god Duamutef. This god which has the head of a cow was normally placedinside a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They feared that the mummy would fall to pieces when they cut it open, but fortunately this has not happened. The mummy successfully survived the operation. Lesson78 The last one? 最后一枝嗎？After reading an article entitled 39。Cigarette Smoking and Your Health39。 I lit a cigarette to calm my nerves. I smoked with concentration and pleasure as I was sure that this would be my last cigarette. For a whole week I did not smoke at all and during this time, my wife suffered terribly. I had all the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appetite. My friends kept on offering me cigarettes and cigars. They made no effort to hide