【正文】 s of wood and m et al t hat l ay around him, t he man sadl y pi cked up t he m at res and cari ed i t i nt o his house. Aft er he had put i t on t he fl oor , he prom pt ly went t o sl ep agai n. Lesson50 Taken f or a ri de 乘車兜風(fēng) I love t ravel i ng i n t he countr y, but I don39。t li ke l osing m y way. I went on an excur si on r ecentl y, but m y t ri p t ook me l onger t han I expect ed. 39。 I39。m goi ng t o Woodf or d Green,39。 I said t o t he conduct or as I got on t he bus,39。 but I don39。t know wher e i t is. 39。 I39。l l tel you wher e to get off ,39。 answer ed t he conductor. I sat i n the fr ont of t he bus t o get a good vi ew of the count rysi de. Aft er some tim e, t he bus stopped. Looking r ound, I r eali zed wit h a shock t hat I was the onl y pasenger left on the bus. 39。 You39。l l have to get off her e,39。 t he conductor said. 39。Thi s i s as f ar as we go.39。 I s t hi s Woodf or d Green ?39。 I asked. 39。Oh dear,39。 sai d the conductor suddenl y.39。 I f or got t o put you of .39。 39。It doesn39。t mat er ,39。 I sai d. 39。I 39。l get off her e.39。 39。We ar e goi ng back now,39。 sai d the conduct or . 39。Wel, i n t hat case, I pr ef er t o st ay on the bus, 39。 I answer ed. Lesson51 Reward f or vi rt ue 對(duì)美德的獎(jiǎng)賞 My fr iend, Her ber t, has al ways been fat, but things got so bad r ecent ly t hat he decided t o go on a diet. He began his diet a wek ago. Fir st of al , he wr ot e out a l ong l ist of al l t he f oods whi ch we re f or bi dden. The l ist i ncl uded m ost of t he thi ngs Her bert l oves: butt er, potat oes, r ice, beer, mil k, chocol at e, and swets. Yesterday I pai d him a visit. I rang the bel and was not sur pri sed t o see t hat Her bert was sti l as f at as ever . He l ed m e i nt o hi s room and hurri edl y hi d a l ar ge parcel under hi s desk. It was obvi ous that he was ver y em bar assed. When I asked him what he was doing, he smi led guil til y and t hen put the par cel on t he desk. He explai ned that his di et was so stri ct t hat he had t o rewar d hi mself occasi onal ly. Then he showed m e the content s of t he par cel. It contai ned fi ve l ar ge bar s of chocol at e and three bags of swets! Lesson52 A pret y carpet 漂亮的地毯 We have j ust moved i nt o a new house and I have been wor ki ng har d al l m or ni ng. I have been t rying to get m y new r om i n or der. Thi s has not been easy because I own over a t housand books. To make m at er s wor se, the room is r at her smal l, so I have t empor aril y put m y books on t he fl oor. At the m om ent, t hey cover every i nch of f loor space and I actual ly have t o walk on them to get i n or out of t he room. A shor t whil e ago, my sister helped m e t o car y one of m y ol d bookcases up t he st ai rs. She went into my r oom and got a bi g surpri se when she saw al l those books on t he fl oor. 39。This i s t he pr et iest car pet I have ever sen,39。 she sai d. She gazed at it f or som e t ime t hen added, 39。You don39。t need bookcases at al . You can sit her e i n your spar e tim e and read t he car pet !39。 Lesson53 H ot snake 觸電的蛇 At l ast f ir emen have put out a bi g f or est f ir e i n Cal if or ni a. Since t hen, t hey have been t r yi ng t o f ind out how t he fir e began. For est f ir e ar e oft en caused by broken glas or by cigar et te ends which peopl e carelesly t hr ow away. Yest er day the fi rem en exami ned the gr ound car ef ul y, but were not abl e to f ind any broken glas. They wer e also quit e sur e t hat a ci garet e end di d not st ar t he fir e. Thi s mor ning, however, a f ir eman acci dental y di scover ed t he cause. He not i ced t he r emains of a snake which was wound r ound the el ectr ic wir es of a 16,000 volt power li ne. I n this way, he was abl e to sol ve t he myst er y. The expl anation was imple but very unusual. A bir d had snatc hed up the snake fr om the ground and t hen dropped it on t o the wires. The snake then wound itsel f round the wir es. When it did so, it sent spar ks down to the ground and t hese i mmediately start ed a f ire. Leson54 Sti cky fi ngers 粘糊的手指 Af ter br eakfast , I sent t he childr en t o school and then I went to market. It was stil l earl y when I returned home. The children were at school , my husband was at t he di f er ence between I ndi an musi c and jazz! Lesson43 Over t he South Pole 飛越南極 In 1929, three years after hi s fli ght over the Nor th Pol e, the American expl or er, R. E. Byr d, succesfull y fl ew over t he Sout h Pole f or t he f irst time. Though, at fi rst, Byr d and his men were able to t ake agr eat many photographs of t he mount ai ns t hat lay below, they soon ran into serious troubl e. At one poi nt , i t seemed cert ai n that their plane woul d cr ash. I t coul d only get over the mountains if it r ose to 10, 000 feet. Byr d at once order ed his men to t hr ow out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then able to r ise and it clear ed t he mount ai ns by 400 f e t. Byr d now knew that he would be able t o reach the South Pole which was 300 mi les away, f or there were no mor e mountains in si ght. The ai rcraft was abl e to f ly over the endl ess whi te plains without dif ficulty. Lesson44 Through the forest 穿過森林 Mrs Anne Sterl ing di d not think of t he r isk she was taking when she r an thr ough a forest af ter two men. They had r ushed up to her whil e she was having a pii c at the edge of a for est wi th her chi ldren and tr ied to steal her handbag. I n the str uggle, the str ap br oke and, wi th the bag i n thei r possessi on, bot h men started runni ng through the tr es. Mr s St er li ng got so angry t hat she ran af ter t hem. She was oon out of br eath, but she conti nued to run. When she caught up with t hem, she saw that hey had sat down and wer e going through t he cont ents of the bag, so she ran st raight at them. The men got such a fr ight that hey dropped the bag and r an away. 39。The str ap nee