【正文】 conver sat i on. 39。 A new play i s ing t o The Globe soon,39。 I said. 39。Wil you be seei ng it ?39。 39。 No, 39。 she answer ed. 39。Wi l you be spending your holidays abroad thi s year ?39。 I asked. 39。 No,39。 she answered. 39。 Wil l you be st ayi ng in Engl and?39。 I asked. 39。 No,39。 she answered. I n despair , I asked her whet her she was enj oyi ng her di nner . 39。 Young man,39。 she answered,39。 i f you at e mor e and talked less, we would both enj oy our di nner ! 39。 l esson41 Do you cal l that a hat ? 你把那個(gè)叫帽子嗎？ 39。Do you cal t hat a hat ?39。 I said t o my wif e. 39。You needn39。t be so r ude about i t, 39。 my wi fe answered as she looked at herself i n the m ir ror . I sat down on one of t hose m oder n chai rs wi th hol es in i t and wai ted. We had been in the hat shop f or half an hour and my wi fe was st il l in f ront of the mi r or. 39。 We must n39。t buy thi ngs we don39。t need,39。 I remar ked suddenl y. I r egr eted saying i t al most at once. 39。You needn39。t have said t hat ,39。 my wif e answer ed. 39。 I need not remi nd you of t hat t er r ible tie you bought yester day.39。 39。 I fi nd it beaut if ul ,39。 I sai d. 39。A man can never have t o into the cave hopi ng to f ind bur ied t reasur e. The l eader of the part y was exami ning t he soi l near t he ent r ance t o t he cave when the m achi ne showed that there was gol d under t he gr ound. Ver y excit ed, t he par t y dug a hol e t wo f et deep. They fi nal ly f ound a sm al gold coi n which was alm ost wort hless. The part y t hen sear ched t he whol e cave t hor oughl y but di d not f i nd anyt hi ng except an em pt y ti n t runk. In spit e of thi s, many peopl e are confi dent t hat 39。The Reveal er39。 may r eveal som et hi ng of val ue f ai rl y soon. Leson56 Fast er t han sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a race is hel d for ol d car s. A lot of car s ent er ed f or t his r ace l ast year and t her e was a gr eat deal of exci teme nt just bef or e it began. One of t he m ost handsom e car s was a Roll s Royce Si l ver Ghost . The m ost unusual car was a Benz whi ch had onl y t hr ee wheel s. Bui lt i n 1885, it was t he oldest car taking part . Aft er a great m any l oud expl osi ons, t he r ace began. Many of t he car s br oke down on t he cour se and some dr i vers spent m ore t im e under t heir cars t han in t hem ! A few car s, however , pl eted t he race. The wi nni ng car eached a speed of f ort y mi les an hour m uch f ast er t han any of i ts r i vals. It sped downhi l at the end of the r ace and i ts dri ver had a l ot of tr oubl e t rying to stop i t. The r ace gave ever yone a gr eat deal of pl easure. It was very di f erent fr om m oder n car r aces but no less excit ing. Lesson57 Can I help you, madam? 你要買什么，夫人？ A woman i n blue j eans stood at the wi ndow of an expensi ve shop. Though she hesi tated f or a moment, she fi naly went i n and asked t o see a dr es t hat was i n the wi ndow. 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 told her t hat t he dr es was sold. The woman wal ked out of the shop angr il y and deci ded to punish t he as sistant next day. She r et urned to the shop the f oll owi ng mor ning dr essed in a f ur coat , wi t h a handbag in one hand and a l ong um brel a in the other. Af t er seeki ng out t he rude assi st ant she asked f or t he sam e dres. Not reali zing who she was, t he asist ant was eager to ser ve her t hi s ti me wi t h great di f icult y, he cl imbed i nto t he shop wi ndow t o get t he dress. As soon as she saw i t, the wom an sai d s many t ies. 39。 39。And a wom an can39。t have too many hats,39。 she answered. Ten mi nut es later we wal ked out of the shop together. My wi fe was wear ing a hat that l ooked l i ke a li ghthouse ! Lesson42 Not very musical 并非很懂音樂(lè) As we had had a long wal k thr ough one of t he markets of Ol d Delhi , we stopped at a squar e t o have a rest . Aft er a ti me, we noti ced a snake char mer wit h t wo lar ge baskets at the other side of the squar e, so we went t o have a look at him. As soon as he saw us, he picked up a l ong pi pe which was covered wi th coi ns and opened one of t he basket s. When he began t o play a t une, we had our fi rst gli mpse of t he snake. I t rose out of t he basket and began to f oll ow t he movem ent s of the pipe. We wer e very m uch sur pr ised when t he snake char mer suddenl y began to pl ay jaz tunes and m oder n pop songs. The snake, however , conti nued to 39。dance39。 slowl y. I t obvi ousl y coul d not tel t he di f erence bet ween Indian m usi c and jazz! Lesson43 Over t he Sout h Pol e 飛越南極 I n 1929, t hree year s aft er hi s fl ight over t he Nort h Pole, the Am er ican explorer , R. E. Byr d, successfull y f lew over the South Pol e f or t he fi rst ti me. Though, at f ir st, Byrd and hi s men wer e abl e to take a great many phot ogr aphs of t he mountains t hat lay below, t hey soon r an int o ser i ous t r oubl e. At one poi nt , it semed cer tain t hat t hei r plane would cr ash. It could only get over the mountains i f it r ose t o 10,000 f et. Byr d at once or der ed his men t o t hr ow out two heavy f ood sacks. The plane was t hen abl e to r ise and i t cl ear ed the mountai ns by 400 f eet . Byrd now knew that he would be able t o r each t he Sout h Pole whi ch was 300 mi les away, f or there wer e no mor e mountains i n sight. The air cr aft was able t o f ly over the endles white pl ains wi thout di f icult y. Lesson44 Through the f orest 穿過(guò)森林 Mrs Anne St erl ing di d not t hink of the r isk she was taki ng when she r an thr ough a forest af t er t wo men. They had rushed up t o her whil e she was having a pi i c at the edge of a for est wi th her chi ldr en and t ri ed to st eal her handbag. I n the st ruggle, the str ap broke and, wi th the bag in their possesion, both m en st ar ted r unning t hr ough the t rees. Mrs