【正文】 er and I looked at each ot her and smi led. Then he said somethi ng and I understood i t. 39。You39。l l soon lear n Engli sh! 39。 he said. I wonder. In Engl and, each man speaks a dif fer ent language. The English understand each ot her , but I don39。t under st and them ! Do they speak Engl ish ? lesson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an art student and I paint a l ot of pict ur es. Many people pr et end that they under st and moder n art . They al ways tel you what a pictur e is 39。about39。. Of cour se, many pict ur es ar c not 39。about 39。 anythi ng. They a re j ust pr et ty pat terns. We l ike t hem i n the same way t hat we like pr ety cur tai n mater ial. I thi nk that young chil dren of ten appr eciate 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 ctur es ar e good or not. She came i nt o my room yester day. 39。 What ar e you doing ?39。 she asked. 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 f or a m oment .39。 I t39。s al l ri ght ,39。 she said, 39。but isn39。t i t upsi de down ?39。 I l ooked at it again. She was ri ght ! It was! Leson27 A wet ni ght 雨夜 Lat e in the aft ernoon, t he boys put up their t ent i n the m iddle of a f iel d. As soon as thi s was done, they cooked a meal over an open f ir e. They wer e al hungr y and the f ood sm el t good. Af ter a wonderf ul m eal , t hey told st ori es and sang songs by t he camp fi re. But some t im e later i t be gan to rain. The boys felt t ir ed so they pet out the f ir e and crept into their t ent . Thei r sl eping bags wer e warm and for table, so they al slept soundl y. In t he mi ddl e of the night , t wo boys woke up and began shout ing. The tent was ful l of wat er ! They al l leapt out of their sleepingbags and hur ri ed outside. It was r ai ning heavi ly and t hey found that a str eam had for med in the f ield. The str eam wound it s way acr oss t he fi eld and t hen f lowed ri ght under t hei r tent! Lesson28 No parking 禁止停車 Jasper Whi te i s one of t hose r are peopl e who beli eves i n anci ent myt hs. He has j ust bought a new house in t he ci ty, but ever since he moved in, he has had t rouble wi t h m ot ori st s. when he r etur ns home at night , he al ways f i nds t hat someone has parked a car out si de his gate . Because of this, he has not been abl e to get his own car i nt o his gar age even once. Jasper has put up39。 No Par ki ng39。 signs outside hi s gat e, but these have not had any ef fect. Now he has put an ugly stone head over t he gat e. I t is one of the ugli est f aces I have ever seen. I asked him what i t was and he told me t hat it was Medusa, t he Gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l t urn m ot ori st s to st one. But none of t hem has been t urned 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 axi39。 is a smal l Swi ss aer opl ane cal led a 39。Pi lat us Por ter39。. Thi s wonder f ul pl ane can car r y seven pasenger s. The most sur pri si ng thi ng about it , however, i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed f iel d. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。s fi rst passenger was a doct or who fl ew f rom Bir mi ngham to a lonel y vil lage i n the Welsh mountains. Since then, Capt ai n Fawcet t has f l own 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 ref used a str ange r equest fr om a businesman. The ma n wanted t o f ly t o Rockal l, a l onely 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 Football 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 home. I li ke sit ing 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 . Some chi ldr en wer e playi ng games on t he bank and t her e wer e some people r owi ng on the r iver. Suddenl y, one of the chil dren kicked a bal very har d a nd it went towards a passi ng boat . Som e peopl e on the bank cal led out to the man i n the boat, but he did not hear t hem. The bal str uck hi m so har d that he near ly f el i nt o t he wat er. I tur ned to l ook at he chi ldr en, but there wer en39。t any i n sight: t hey had al l run away! The man laughed when he r eal ized what had happened. He cal led out to t he chi ldr en and threw the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Succes st ory 成功者的故事 Yester day af ternoon Fr ank Hawki ns was tel ling me about his experi ences as a young m an. Frank i s now t he head of a very l arge busi nes pany, but as a boy he used t o work in a smal l shop. I t was his j ob to repai r bicycl es and at t hat t ime he used to work f ourt en hours a day. He saved money f or year s and in 1938 he bought a smal wor kshop of hi s own. Duri ng the war Fr ank used to make spare par ts f or aer opl anes. At that tim e he had two hel per s. By the end of the war , the smal wor k shop had bee a l ar ge factor y which em pl oyed seven hundr ed and t wentyei ght peopl e. Fr ank sm il ed when he remembered hi s har d earl y year s and the l ong r oad to success. He was st il l sm il ing when t he door opened and his wi f e cam e in. She wanted him to repair thei r son39。s bicycle! Lesson32 Shoppi ng made easy 購物變得很方便 Peopl e are not so honest as t hey once wer e. The t em pt at ion to steal is gr eat er t han ever bef oreespecial ly i n lar ge shops. A detective r ecent ly wat ched a wel l dressed wom an who always went i nto a large stor e on Monday mor nings. One Monday, there wer e f ewer people i n the shop than usual when t he woman cam e in, so it was easi