【正文】 and he t ol d me that i t was Medusa, the Gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l tur n m ot ori st s t o st one. But none of them has been tur ned to stone yet! Lesson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車(chē)！ Captain Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new servi ce. The 39。t axi 39。 is a smal Swiss aeropl ane ca l led a 39。Pi latus Port er 39。. Thi s wonderf ul plane can car y seven passenger s. The most surpr ising thi ng about it, however, is tha t it can land anywhere: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed fi eld. Captai n Fawcet39。s f ir st passenger was a doctor who f lew fr om Bir mi ngham t o a lonely vil lage i n t he Wel sh mount ai ns. Si nce then, Captain Fawcet t has f lown pasenger s t o many unusual places . Once he landed on the roof of a block of fl at s and on another occasion, he l anded in a deser ted car par k. Captain Fawcet t has j ust r efused a st range r equest fr om a businessman. The man want ed t o f ly to Rockal l, a lonely isl and in the Atl antic Ocean, but Captai n Fawcet t did not take hi m because the tr ip was t oo danger ous. Leson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e i s a smal r iver t hat cut s across t he park near my home. I li ke sit ti ng by the Wayle on f ine af ter noons. It was war m last Sunday, so I went and sat on t he r iver bank as usual. Some childr en wer e pl ayi ng games on the bank and there wer e some people rowi ng on the ri ver . Suddenl y, one of t he childr en ki cked a bal ver y hard and i t went t owar ds a passing boat. Some people on t he bank caled out to the man in the boat, but he did not hear them. The bal l str uck him so har d t hat he near ly f el l i nt o the wat er. I tur ned to look at the chi ldr en, but t her e wer en39。t any i n si ght : t hey had al run away! The man laughed when he reali zed what had happened. He cal ed out t o t he chil dren and thr ew t he bal back to the bank. Lesson31 Suces story 成功者的故事 Yest erday af ternoon Fr ank Hawki ns was t el ing me about hi s exper iences as a young man. Frank i s now t he head of a ver y large business pany, but as a boy he used to wor k i n a smal shop. It was his job to r epair bicycl es and at t hat ti me he used to work f our teen hour s a day. He saved money f or year s and i n 1938 he bought a smal work shop of his own. Duri ng t he war Fr ank used to make spare par ts f or aer opl anes. At that ti me he had t wo hel per s. By the end of the war, t he smal l work shop had bee a large factor y whi ch empl oyed seven hundred and twenty eight peopl e. Frank smi led when he remembered his har d earl y years and the long road t o success. He was sti l smi li ng when the door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She wanted him t o r epai r thei r son39。s bicycle! Lesson32 Shoppi ng made easy 購(gòu)物變 得很方便 People ar e not so honest as t hey once were. The temptat ion to st eal is gr eat er t han ever bef or e especial y i n l arge shops. A det ect ive recent ly watched a wel l dr esed wom an who always went i nto a l arge st ore on Monday morni ngs. One Monday, there were fewer people in the shop than usual when t he woman cam e i n, so it was easi er for the det ecti ve t o wat ch her. The woman fi rst bought a f ew sm al l art icl es. Af ter a l it tle ti me, she chose one of t he most expensive dresses i n the shop and handed i t t o an assistant who wr apped i t up for her as qui ckl y as possible. Then the woman simpl y took t he parcel and wal ked out of t he shop wi thout payi ng. When she was ar est ed, the detecti ve f ound out that t he shop asistant was her daughter . The gir l 39。 gave39。 her mother a f ree dr es once a week ! l eson33 Out of t he darkness 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed before the gir l was abl e t o explain what had happened t o her . One af ter noon she set out f r om the coast in a smal l boat and was caught i n a stor m. Towar ds evening, t he boat str uck a r ock and t he gi rl j umped i nto the sea. Then she swam t o t he shor e af ter spendi ng t he whol e ni ght i n t he wat er . Dur ing that ti me she cover ed a di st ance of ei ght mi l es. Earl y next m or ning, she saw a l ight ahead. She knew she was near t he shor e because t he l i ght was hi gh up on t he cl if fs. On ar i vi ng at t he shor e, t he gi rl st r uggl ed up t he cli f t owar ds t he li ght she had seen. That was al l she r em em ber ed. When she woke up a day l at er, she found herself in hospit al . Leson34 Q ui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robi nson has been worr i ed al l t he week. Last Tuesday he r ecei ved a l et er f r om t he l ocal poli ce. In the l et er he was asked t o cal at the st at i on. Ted wonder ed why he was wanted by t he poli ce, but he went t o t he st ati on yest erday and now he is not worr ied any mor e. At t he st ati on, he was t old by a sm il ing pol iceman t hat his bi cycl e had been f ound. Fi ve days ago, t he pol i ceman t ol d him, t he bi cycl e was pi cked up i n a smal vi l age f our hundr ed mi les away. I t is now bei ng sent t o his hom e by tr ai n. Ted was most sur pri sed when he hear d t he news. He was am used t oo, because he never expected t he bi cycl e t o be found. It was stol en t went y year s ago when Ted was a boy of f if teen ! Lesson35 St op t hi ef! 捉賊！ Rov Tr ent on used t o dr i ve a t axi . A shor t whi le ago, however, he became a bus dr iver and he was not r egr et t ed it . He is fi ndi ng hi s new wor k f ar m or e exci ti ng. When he was dr ivi ng along Cat f or d St reet r e centl y, he saw t wo t hi eves r ush out of a shop and r un t owar ds a wait ing car . One of them was car ying a bag full of money. Roy acted qui ckl y and drove t he bus str aight at t he t hi eves. The one wit h t he m oney got such a f ri ght that he dr opped the bag. As t he t hi eves wer e t r yi ng t o get away i n their car, Roy dr ove his bus i nt o t he back of i t. Whil e th