【正文】 have j ust f ini shed cutt ing t hree car t loads of gol den brown m acaroni stalks. The whol e vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hreshi ng thi s year 39。s crop befor e the September r ai ns. On t he ri ght, you can see Mrs Br abante her sel f. She has been helping her husband f or t hir ty years now. Mrs Br abante is t al king t o the m anager of t he local f act ory wher e the cr op is pr ocessed. Thi s last scene shows you what wi l happen at the end of the harvest : t he fam ous Cal abr ian macaroni eat ing peti ti on ! Signor Fratel i, t he present cham pi on, has won i t every year since 1961. And t hat ends our speci al bull e ti n for t oday, Thur sday, Apri l 1st . We ar e now r et urning you t o t he st udi o.39。 Leson77 A successf ul operati on 一例成功的手術 The mummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper ati on. The mummy i s that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Temple of Thebes. As t her e were st range marks on t he X ray plat es t aken of t he mummy, doct ors have been tr yi ng to fi nd out whether t he woman died of a r ar e disease. The onl y way t o do t hi s was to oper at e. The oper at i on, whi ch last ed for over four hour s, pr oved t o be very di f icult because of the hard resin whi ch covered t he ski n. The doctor s removed a sect ion of t he mummy and sent it to a laborator y. They also f ound somet hi ng whi ch t he X ray of t he god Duamut ef. This god whi ch has t he head of a cow was nor mal y placed inside a m um my. The doct or s have not yet decided how t he woman died. They feared t hat t he mummy would f al to pi eces when t hey cut it open, but for tunately this has not happened. The mumm y successful ly survi ved the oper ati on. Leson78 The last one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af t er r eadi ng an ar ti cle enti tl ed 39。Ci gar et te Sm oki ng and Your Heal th39。 I li t a ci gar et e to calm my ner ves. I smoked wi t h concentr at ion and pleasur e as I was sur e t hat thi s would be m y last ci gar et e. For a whole week I di d not sm oke at al and duri ng this t im e, my wif e suff ered t er ri bly. I had al l the usual symptoms of someone gi ving up smoking: a bad temper and an enor mous appeti te. My fr iends kept on off eri ng me cigaret tes and cigars. They made no ef for t to hi de their amusement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweets f rom my pocket . Aft er seven days of t hi s I went to a par ty. Ever ybody ar ound m e was smoking and I fel t ext remely unf or tabl e. When m y old fr iend Br ian urged m e to accept a ci gar et te, it was m or e t han I could bear. I t ook one guil ti ly, li t it and smoked wit h sat isfacti on. My wi fe was deli ghted t hat thi ngs had r eturned t o normal once more. Anyway, as Br ian point ed out , it is the easi est thi ng in t he worl d t o give up smoking. He him sel f has done it l ots of ti mes! Lesson79 By ai r 乘飛機 I used t o tr avel by air a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ent s, used to live i n South Am eri ca and I used to fl y there fr om Eur ope i n t he hol idays. An ai rhostes woul d t ake charge of me and I never had an unpleasant experi ence. I am used to t ravel ing by air and only on one occasi on have I ever felt f ri ght ened. Af ter taking of f, we wer e f lyi ng low over the ci ty and slowl y gaining height , when t he plane suddenly t urned r ound and f lew back to the air port . Whil e we wer e wait ing t o l and, an air host es t old us t o keep calm and to get of f t he plane quietl y as soon as i t had t ouched down. Everybody on boar d was wor ri ed and we wer e cur ious to fi nd out what had happened. Later we l ear nt that here wa s a ver y im por tant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t ol d t hat a bomb had been planted on t he pl ane. Af ter we had l anded, t he plane was sear ched t hor oughl y. For tunately, nothing was f ound and f ive hour s later we wer e able t o take off again. Leson80 The Cryst al Pal ace 水晶宮 Per haps the m ost extr aor dinary bui lding of t he nieent h cent ury was the Cr yst al Palace, whi ch was built i n Hyde Park for the Gr eat Exhi bi ti on of 1851. The Cr yst al Palace was dif fer ent f rom al l other bui ldi ngs i n the wor ld, f or i t was made of ir on and gl as. It was one of the bi ggest bui ldings of al ti me and a l ot of people f rom many count ri es came t o see it . A great many goods wer e sent t o the exhibit ion f r om vari ous par ts of the wor ld. There was al so a gr eat deal of m achiner y on display. The most wonderf ul pi ece of machinery on show was Nasm yt h39。s steam hammer . Though i n those days, tr avel ling was not as easy as i t i s today, st eam boat s car ri ed thousands of vi sit or s acr oss t he Channel f rom Europe. On ar r iving i n England, they were t aken to t he Crystal Palace by tr ai n. Ther e were si x mi l ion visi tors i n al , and the prof it s fr om t he exhi biti on wer e used t o build museums and coll eges. Lat er , the Cr yst al Pal ace was m oved t o South London. I t remai ned one of the m ost f am ous bui ldings in the wor ld unt il it was bur nt down i n 1936. Lesson81 Escape 脫逃 When he had kil led t he guard, t he pr isoner of war quickly dr agged hi m i nto t he bushes. Working rapidly in t he dar kness, he soon changed i nt o t he dead man39。s cl ot hes. Now, dressed i n a bl ue uni for m and wi th a ri fl e over hi s shoulder, t he pr isoner m arched bol dly up and down i n f ront of t he cam p. He coul d hear shout ing i n the camp i tself . Lights wer e blazing and men wer e r unni ng her e and there: they had j ust discover ed that a pr isoner had escaped. At t hat m oment , a lar ge bl ack car wi th f our of f icers i nsi de it, stopped at the cam p gates. The of fi cer s got out and the pr isoner stood t o at tenti on and sal uted as they pased. When they had gone, the dr iver of the car came t owards him . The m an obvi ousl y want ed t o t alk. He was r at her el der l y wit h grey hair and cl ear blue eyes. The pri soner felt sorr y f