【正文】 er, seem ed quit e sure of him self. When t he bul got close t o him , he clum sily st epped aside t o let it pass. The crowd br oke int o cheer s and t he dr unk bowed. By t his t im e, however , t hree m en had e int o t he r ing and t hey quickly dragged t he drunk t o saf et y. Even t he bul seemed t o f eel sor y f or him, f or it looked on sympat heticaly until he dr unk was out of t he way bef or e once m or e t ur ni g it s at tent ion t o t he m at ador. Lesson71 A f amous clock 一個著 名的大鐘 When you visit London, one of t he f ir st hings you wil see is Big Ben, t he f amous clock which can be heard al over t he wor ld on t he B. . I f t he Houses of Parliam ent had hot been bur ned down in 1834, t he great clock would never have been er ected. Big Ben t akes it s nam e f r om Sir Benjamin Hal who was r esponsible f or t he making of t he clock when t he new Houses of Parliam ent were being built . I t is not only of imm ense size, but is extr emely acurate as well. Of ficials f rom Gr eenwich Obser vator y have t he clock checked t wice a day. On t he . you can hear t he clock when it is act ualy str ikng because micr ophones ar e connec ted t o t he clock t ower . Big Ben has r ar ely gone wr ong. Once, however , it f ailed t o give t he cor rect tim e. A painter who had been wor king on t he t ower hung a pot of paint on one of t he hands and slowed it down ! Lesson72 A car called Bluebir d “藍(lán)鳥”汽車 The great r acing dr iver, Sir M alcolm Cam pbell, was t he f ir st man t o drive at over 300 miles per hour . He set up a new wor ld r ecord in Sept em ber 1935 at Bonevile Salt Flats, Ut ah. Bluebir d, t he car he was driving, had been specialy built f or him . I t was over 30 f eet in length and had a 2500 horse power engine. Alt hough Cam pbell r eached a speed of over 304 m iles per hour, he had gr eat dif ficult y in contr oling t he car because a t yr e burst during t he f ir st r un. Af ter his at tem pt , Cam pbel was disapoint ed t o lear n t hat his average speed had been 299 m iles per hour . However, a f ew days lat er, he was t old t hat a mist ake had been m ade. His aver age speed had been 301 miles per hour . Since t hat ime, r acing drivers have r eached speeds of over 400 miles an hour . Folowing his f ather 39。s f otst eps m any ears lat er, Sir Malcolm 39。s on, Donald, also set up a world r ecor d. Like his f at her, he was driving a car caled Bluebir d. Lesson73 The r ecor d holder 紀(jì)錄保持者 Lit tle boys who play t r uant f r om schol ar e unimaginative. A quiet day39。s fishing, or eight hour s in a cinema seeing t he same film over and over again, is usualy as f ar as t hey get. They have al been put o sham e by a boy who, while playing t r uant, r aveled 1600 m iles. He hit ch iked t o Dover and, t owards evening, went int o a boat o f ind som ewhere t o sleep. When he woke up next m orning, he discover ed t hat he boat had, in t he m eantim e, t r aveled t o Cal is. No ne noticed t he boy as he crept of . Fr om t her e, he hit chhiked t o Paris in a lor r y. The driver gave him a f ew biscuit s and a cup of cof ee and lef t him just out side t he cit y. The nex t car t he boy stopped did not ake him int o t he cent r e of Paris as he hoped it would, but o Perpignan on t he Fr ench Spanish bor der. There he was picked up by a policem an and sent back t o England by t he local aut horit ies. He has sur ely set up a r ecord f or t he t housands of boys who dream of evading school. Lesson74 Out of t he lim elight 舞臺之外 An ancient bus t opped by a dr y r iver bed and a part y of amous act ors and act r esses got of f. Dr essed in dar k glasses and old clot hes, t hey had t aken special pr ecautions o t hat no one should r ecognize t hem. But as t hey soon discover ed, disguises can sometim es be t oo per fect . 39。This is a wonder ful place f or a piic,39。 said Gloria Gleam. 39。I t couldn39。t be bett er , Glor ia,39。 Brinksley M eer s agreed. 39。No newspaper m en, no film f ans! Why don39。t we e m or e of t en ?39。 M eanwhile, t wo other actors, Rockwal Slinger and M erlin Gr eeves, had c ar ried t wo lar ge f ood baskets t o a shady spot under some t rees. When t hey had al m ade t hemselves f ort able, a st ranger appear ed. He looked ver y angry. 39。Now you gut out of here, al of you! 39。 he shouted: 39。I 39。m sherif f her e. Do you see t hat notice ? It says No Cam ping in case you can39。t r ead !39。 Look, sher if , 39。said Rockwal, 39。 don39。t be t oo har d on us. I 39。m Rockwal Slinger and t his is M erlin Gr eeves. 39。 Oh, is it ?39。 said t he sherif f wit h a sneer. 39。Wel, I 39。m Br inksley M eer s, and my ot her nam e is Glor ia Gleam. Now you get out of here f ast ! 39。 lesson75 SOS 呼救信號 When alight passenger plane f lew of cour se som e t ime ago, it cr ashed in t he m ount ains and it s pilot was kiled. The only pasengers, a young wom an and her t wo baby daught er s, were unhurt . I t was t he middle of wint er. Snow lay t hick on t he gr ound. The wom an knew t hat t he near est vilage was m iles away. When it gr ew dar k. she t ur ned a suit case int o a bed and put t he childr en inside it , cover ing t hem wit h al t he clot hes she could find. Dur ing t he night, it got erribly cold. The wom an kept as near as he could t o t he childr en and even t r ied t o get int o t he case herself , but it was t oo smal. Ear ly , next mor ni g she hear d planes pasing overhead and wonder ed how she could send a signal. Then she had an idea. She st am ped out he lett ers39。 SOS39。 in t he snow. For tunat ely, a pilot saw t he signal and sent a m essage by r adio t o t he nearest t own. I t was not long bef or e a helicopter ar rived on t he scene t o r escue t he survi or s of t he plane cr ash. Lesson76 Apr il Fools Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our special news bulet in,39。 said t he voice of t he t elevision announcer, 39。 we ar e t aking you t o t he macar oni f ields of Cal bria. Macar oni has