【正文】 sai d. 39。Wel l,39。 I said t o the m anager, 39。t her e i s st il l some honest y in this worl d !39。 lesson25 Do the Engl ish speak English? 英國人講的是英語嗎？ I ar ived in London at last. The r ai lway st at ion was bi g, bl ack and dark. I did not know t he way to m y hotel, so I asked a por ter. I not onl y spoke Engl ish ver y caref ul ly, but ver y clearl y as wel . The por ter, however , coul d not understand me。 I r epeated my questi on several ti mes and at l ast he under stood. He answered m e, but he spoke neit her slowl y nor cl ear ly. 39。I am a for eigner ,39。 I sai d. Then he spoke sl owly, but I could not under stand him. My t eacher never spoke Engl ish l ike t hat ! The por ter and I looked at each other and smi led. Then he said somet hing and I under st ood it . 39。You39。l l soon le arn Engl ish!39。 he sai d. I wonder. I n England, each man speaks a dif f er ent l anguage. The Engli sh underst and each other, but I don39。t understand t hem ! Do t hey speak Engl ish ? l esson26 The best art cri ti cs 最佳美術(shù)評論家 I am an ar t st udent and I pai nt a l ot of pi ct ures. Many people pr etend t hat they under stand modern ar t. They always tel l you what a pi ct ure i s 39。about 39。. Of course, m any pi ct ur es ar c not 39。about 39。 anythi ng. They are j ust pr et ty pat terns. We l ike t hem in the same way t hat we l ike pr et ty cur tain ma ter ial. I thi nk that young chil dren of ten appr eci ate m oder n pictur es bet ter than anyone else. They not ice mor e. My sister is onl y seven, but she al ways tel s me whet her my pi ctures ar e good or not. She came i nt o my room yester day. 39。 What ar e you doing ?39。 she aske d. 39。 I39。m hangi ng thi s pictur e on the wal l, 39。 I answer ed. 39。I t 39。s a new one. Do you l ike it ?39。 She looked at i t cr it ical y for a m oment .39。 I t39。s al l r i ght ,39。 she said, 39。but isn39。t it upsidedown ?39。 I looked at i t again. She was r ight! I t was! Leson27 A wet ni ght 雨夜 Lat e i n the af ternoon, t he boys put up t hei r tent in t he middl e of a fi el d. As soon as t his was done, t hey cooked a meal over an open f ir e. They wer e al hungry and t he food smelt good. Af ter a wonderf ul meal , they tol d stori es and sang songs by t he c am p fi re. But som e ti me l at er i t began t o rai n. The boys fel t tir ed so they pet out t he fi re and crept int o their t ent . Thei r sl eepi ng bags wer e warm and for table, so they al slept soundly. In the mi ddle of the ni ght , two boys woke up and began shout i ng. The tent was full of water ! They al l leapt out of their sleepingbags and hur ri ed out side. I t was rai ni ng heavi ly and t hey f ound that a st ream had f orm ed in t he fi eld. The st ream wound its way acr oss t he fi el d and then f lowed r ight under t hei r tent! Leson28 No parking 禁止停車 Jasper Whit e is one of t hose r ar e peopl e who beli eves i n anci ent myt hs. He has just bought a new house i n t he ci ty, but ever si nce he moved in, he has had t rouble wi th motor ists. when he retur ns hom e at ni ght , he al ways fi nds that someone has par ked a car outside hi s gat e. Because of thi s, he has not been abl e t o get hi s own car i nto hi s gar age even once. Jasper has put up39。 No Par king39。 si gns out si de his gate, but t hese have not had any ef ect . Now he has put an ugly st one head over the gate. It is one of t he ugl iest f aces I have ever seen. I asked him what it was and he tol d me t hat i t was Medusa, the Gor gon. Jasper hopes that she wil l turn motor ists t o stone. But none of them has been turned t o stone yet ! Leson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車！ Captain Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new ser vice. The 39。taxi39。 i s a sm al l Swi ss aer oplane cal ed a 39。Pil atus Port er39。. Thi s wonder ful plane can car ry seven passengers. The most surpr ising t hing about i t, however , is t hat i t can l and anywhere: on snow, wat er , or even on a pl oughed f ield. Captain Fawcet 39。s f ir st passenger was a doctor who f lew fr om Bi r mingham t o a l onely vil age in t he Wel sh mount ains. Si nce t hen, Captain Fawcet t has f lown passenger s to many unusual pl aces. Once he l anded on t he roof of a block of fl ats and on anot her occasi on, he landed in a desert ed car park. Captain Fawcet has just re f used a str ange r equest fr om a businesman. The man wanted t o f ly t o Rockal l, a l onel y island i n the At lanti c Ocean, but Capt ain Fawcet did not t ake hi m because the t ri p was t oo dangerous. Lesson30 Footbal l or pol o? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a sm al l ri ver t hat cuts across the park near my hom e. I l ike sit ting by the Wayl e on fi ne aft er noons. It was war m l ast Sunday, so I went and sat on the r iver bank as usual . Som e chi ldr en were pl ayi ng games on t he bank and t her e wer e some people rowi ng on the r iver. Suddenl y, one of the chil dren ki cked a bal very har d and it went towar ds a passi ng boat. Some people on t he bank cal ed out t o the m an in t he boat , but he did not hear them. The bal l st ruck him so hard t hat he nearl y fel l into the water . I t urned t o look at the chil dren, but t her e weren39。t any in si ght : they had al r un away! The man l aughed when he r eal ized what had happened. He cal led out to t he childr en and threw the bal back to t he bank. Leson31 Suces st ory 成功者的故事 Yester day af ter noon Fr ank Hawkins was tel li ng me about hi s experi ences as a young m an. Fr ank i s now t he head of a very large busines pany, but as a boy he used t o wor k in a sm al l shop. It was his j ob to repair bicycles and at t hat t ime he used t o work fourt een hour s a day. He saved money for year s and in 1938 he bought a smal l wor kshop of his own. Duri ng the war Fr ank used t o make spar e par ts f or aer opl anes. At tha t ti me he had two hel per s. By the end of the war , the smal