【正文】 m eant i m e, t ravel ed to Cal ai s. No one not iced the boy as he crept off . From there, he hit ch hiked to Par is i n a l or r y. The dr iver gave him a f ew bi scuit s and a cup of coff ee and lef t hi m j ust outside t he cit y. The next car the boy stopped did not t ake hi m i nto t he centr e of Pari s as he hoped it woul d, but to Per pignan on the Fr ench Spanish border . Ther e he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to Engl and by t he local aut hor it ies. He has surel y set up a r ecor d f or t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evadi ng school. Leson74 Out of the l im el ight 舞臺之外 An anci ent bus stopped by a dry r iver bed and a par ty of f amous act ors and act r esses got off . Dressed i n dark gl ases and ol d clot hes, they had taken special precaut ions so that no one should r ecognize t hem . But as t hey soon discover ed, disguises can someti mes be too perf ect. 39。Thi s is a wonder ful place for a pi i c, 39。 said Glor ia Gl eam . 39。 I t couldn39。t be bet er , Gl or ia, 39。 Br inksley Mer s agr eed. 39。No newspaper m en, no f il m f ans! Why don39。t we e more of ten ?39。 Meanwhile, t wo other act or s, Rockwal l Sl i nger and Mer li n Gr eves, had car r ied two lar ge food baskets t o a shady spot under som e tr ees. When t hey had al l m ade themsel ves f ort abl e, a str anger appear ed. He l ooked very angr y. 39。Now you gut out of her e, al l of you! 39。 he shout ed: 39。 I 39。m sheri f here. Do you see that notice ? It says No Cam pi ng in case you can39。t r ead ! 39。 39。 Look, sheri f , 39。sai d Rockwal ,39。 don39。t be t oo har d on us. I39。m Rockwal Sli nger and t hi s is Merl in Gr eeves.39。 39。 Oh, i s it ?39。 sai d the sher i f wi th a sneer. 39。Wel, I 39。m Br inksl ey Meers, and my other name is Glor ia Gl eam . Now you get out of her e f ast !39。 l esson75 SOS 呼救信號 When a li ght passenger pl ane f lew off cour se som e ti me ago, i t cr ashed i n the m ount ai ns and it s pi lot was kil led. The onl y pa senger s, a young woman and her two baby daught er s, wer e unhur t. I t was the mi ddle of wi nt er. Snow l ay thick on t he ground. The wom an knew that the near est vi lage was m iles away. When it gr ew dark. she turned a suit case int o a bed and put t he chi ldr en inside i t, cover ing t hem wi th al t he clothes she could fi nd. Dur i ng t he ni ght, it got ter i bl y cold. The woman kept as near as she coul d to the chil dren and even t ri ed to get i nt o t he case her sel f, but it was t oo sm al l. Earl y , next morni ng she heard pl anes pasi ng over head and wonder ed how she coul d send a si gnal . Then she had an idea. She stamped out the l et ter s39。 SOS39。 in the snow. For tunately, a pil ot saw the signal and sent a message by radio t o t he nearest town. It was not long befor e a heli copter ar ived on t he scene to rescue t he sur vivors of t he pl ane cr ash. Leson76 April Fools Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our speci al news bull eti n, 39。 said the voice of the t elevision announcer, 39。 we ar e t aki ng you to t he macar oni f iel ds of Cal abr ia. Macaroni has been grown i n t hi s area f or over six hundred year s. Two of the l eading gr owers, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricardo Br abant e, t el l me t hat t hey ha ve been expect ing a spl endid cr op t hi s year and harvest ing has begun ear lier t han usual . Here you can se two workers who, between them, have just fi ni shed cutt ing t hree cart l oads of golden brown macar oni stalks. The whole vi lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hr eshi ng thi s year39。s crop befor e the September rai 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. Mr s Br abante is t al king t o the m anager of t he local f act or y wher e the cr op is pr ocesed. Thi s last scene shows you what wi l happen at the end of the harvest : t he famous Calabr ian macaroni eat ing peti ti on ! Signor Fr atel i, t he pr esent champi 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。 Lesson77 A successf ul operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The m ummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper ati on. The mumm y 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 Xr ay plat es t aken of t he mummy, doct ors have been t ryi ng to fi nd out whether the wom an died of a r ar e disease. The onl y way t o do thi s was to oper at e. The operati on, whi ch lasted f or over f our hour s, pr oved t o be ver y dif f icult because of t he har d r esi n which covered t he skin. The doctors r emoved a secti on of the m um my and sent i t o a l abor atory. They also f ound somethi ng which t he Xr ay of the god Duamutef . Thi s god which has the head of a cow was norm al ly pl aced i nsi de a mumm y. The doctor s have not yet deci ded how the wom an died. They f ear ed that the m um my woul d fal l t o pieces when they cut it open, but f ort unat el y t his has not happened. The m ummy successf ull y sur vived t he oper at ion. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter reading an ar ticl e ent it led 39。Ci garet e Smoking and Your Healt h39。 I l it a cigar et te t o calm my nerves. I smoked wi th concent rati on and pleasur e as I was sur e that this woul d be my last cigar et te. For a whole week I did not smoke at al l and dur ing t his t ime, my wi f e suf fer ed ter ibl y. I had al t he usual sympt oms of som eone givi ng up sm oki ng: a bad t emper and an enorm ous appet it e. My f ri ends kept on of fer ing m e cigaret es and ci gar s. They made no ef ort t o hide t hei r am usement 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 rem