【正文】 and he t old m e t hat it was Medusa, t he Gor gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wi l t ur n m ot ori st s to st one. But none of t hem has been t ur ned to st one yet! Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ain Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new ser vi ce. The 39。t axi 39。 is a sm al Swi ss aer opl ane cal led a 39。Pi l at us Por ter39。. Thi s wonder f ul pl ane ca n car y seven pasenger s. The m ost sur pri si ng t hi ng about it , however, i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed fi el d. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。s fi rst passenger was a doct or who fl ew f r om Bir mi ngham to a lonel y vil l age i n t he Welsh m ountai ns. Since t hen, Capt ai n Fawcet t has f l own passengers t o m any unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lat s and on anot her occasi on, he l anded i n a deser ted car par k. Capt ai n Fawcet t has j ust r ef used a st range r equest f rom a busi nessm an. The m an want ed t o f l y to Rockal , a lonel y i sl and in t he Atl ant i c Ocean, but Capt ai n Fawcet t di d not t ake him because t he tr i p was too danger ous. Leson30 Foot bal l or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e i s a smal r iver that cut s acr oss t he par k near m y hom e. I l i ke sit ti ng by t he Wayle on f i ne af ter noons. I t was warm l ast Sunday, so I went and sat on t he ri ver bank as usual. Some chil dren wer e playing games on t he bank and ther e were some people r owing on t he ri ver . Suddenly, one of the chil dr en kicked a bal ver y hard and i t went t owards a pasi ng boat . Some people on the bank cal led out to t he man i n the boat, but he di d not hear them. The bal str uck hi m so hard that he nearl y f el l int o the wat er . I tur ned t o l ook at t he chi ldren, but t her e wer en39。t any i n sight: t hey had al r un away! The m an laughed when he r eal ized what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chil dren and thr ew t he bal l back t o the bank. Leson31 Success st ory 成功者的故事 Yest er day aft er noon Frank Hawkins was t el li ng me about hi s exper iences as a young man. Fr ank is now t he head of a ver y lar ge business pany, but as a boy he used t o wor k in a smal shop. It was hi s job t o r epair bi cycles and at that ime he used t o wor k four teen hour s a day. He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a smal l work shop of his own. Dur ing t he war Frank used t o make spar e part s for aeroplanes. At t hat ti me he had t wo helpers. By t he end of t he war, the smal l wor kshop had bee a large f act ory whi ch employed seven hundr ed and twent y eight people. Frank sm i l ed when he remember ed hi s hard earl y year s and the l ong road t o success. He was sti l smil ing when t he door opened and hi s wif e came in. She wanted hi m t o r epair t hei r son39。s bi cycle! Leson32 Shoppi ng made easy 購物變得很方便 People ar e not so honest as they once were. The temptat ion t o steal i s greater than ever bef or e especial y in large shops. A det ect ive r ecentl y watched a wel dr esed woman who al ways went i nt o a l arge stor e on Monday morni ngs. One Monday, t here wer e fewer peopl e in the shop than usual when the wom an came in, so it was easi er f or the detecti ve to wat ch her . The woman fi r st bought a f ew smal art icl es. Af ter a li t le t im e, she chose one of the most expensi ve dresses i n the shop and handed it t o an asistant who wr apped i t up for her as qui ckl y as possible. Then the woman si mply took the par cel and walked out of t he shop wi thout payi ng. When she was ar rest ed, t he det ect ive f ound out t hat the shopassi st ant was her daughter . The gi rl 39。 gave39。 her mother a f ree dr ess once a week ! l eson33 Out of the darknes 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed bef ore t he gir l was abl e to explain what had happened to her . One aft er noon she set out f rom the coast i n a sm al boat and was caught i n a st or m. Towar ds eveni ng, t he boat str uck a rock and t he gi rl j um ped i nto t he sea. Then she swam to t he shor e aft er spendi ng the whol e ni ght i n t he water. Dur i ng t hat t im e she cover ed a di st ance of ei ght m il es. Earl y next m or ni ng, she saw a l i ght a head. She knew she was near the shor e because t he l ight was hi gh up on t he cl if f s. On ar ri vi ng at the shore, the gir l st r uggl ed up t he cli f t owar ds t he l i ght she had seen. That was al l she r em em ber ed. When she woke up a day l ater, she f ound herself i n hospit al. Leson34 Qui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robi nson has been wor ri ed al l t he wek. Last Tuesday he r eceived a l et ter fr om t he l ocal pol ice. In t he let er he was asked t o cal at t he st at ion. Ted wonder ed why he was want ed by t he pol ice, but he went to t he st ati on yest er day and now he i s not worr ied any m or e. At t he st ati on, he was t ol d by a smi li ng pol i ceman t hat his bi cycl e had been f ound. Five days ago, t he poli cem an tol d hi m, t he bi cycl e was picked up in a sm al l vi l age four hundr ed m il es away. It i s now bei ng sent t o hi s hom e by tr ai n. Ted was m ost sur pr ised when he hear d t he news. He was am used t oo, because he never expect ed t he bicycl e t o be f ound. I t was stol en twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of f if teen ! Leson35 St op t hief! 捉賊！ Rov Tr enton 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 mor 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 ng car. One of them was car ryi ng a bag full of money. Roy act ed qui ckl y and drove t he bus str aight at t he thieves. The one wi th t he money got such a f ri ght t hat he dropped the bag. As the t hieves wer e t rying to get away in t hei r car , Roy drove his bus i nt o t he back of it . Whi le t he bat ter ed