【正文】 b but ver y cl earl y as wel. The port er , however, could not understand me。 I r epeat ed my question sever al ti mes and at last he under st ood. He answer ed me, but he spoke nei ther sl owl y nor clear ly. 39。I am a f or ei gner,39。 I said. Then he spoke sl owl y, but I could not understand him. My t eacher never spoke Engl ish l ike that ! The por ter 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 English!39。 he sai d. I wonder . In Engl and, each man speaks a dif ferent l anguage. The Engl ish under stand each ot her, but I don39。t under st and them ! Do they speak Engli sh ? leson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評論家 I am an art st udent and I pai nt a lot of pictures. Many people pr et nd that they under st and modern art . They always t el l you what a pi ct ur e is 39。about39。. Of course, many pictures ar c not 39。about39。 anything. They are just pret y pat er ns. We li ke them in t he same way that we l ike pr et ty cur tain materi al. I think that young chi ldren of ten appreci at e modern pictures bet er than anyone el se. They not i ce mor e. My sister i s only seven, but she always t el s me whether my pictures ar e good or not. She came i nt o my room yester day. 39。 What are you doing ?39。 she asked. 39。 I39。m hangi ng t hi s pi ct ur e on t he wal, 39。 I answer ed. 39。I t39。s a new one. Do you l ike it ?39。 She l ooked at it cr it cal y for a moment.39。 It 39。s al l r ight,39。 she said, 39。but isn39。t it upsi de down ?39。 I looked at it again. She was r ight! It was! Leson27 A wet ni ght 雨夜 Late in t he aft er noon, the boys put up thei r t ent in the middle of a f ield. As soon as this was done, they cooked a meal over an open f ir e. They were al hungr y and the food smelt good. Af ter a wonderf ul meal , t hey told stori es and sang songs by t he camp fir e. But some time l at er it began to rain. The boys felt ti red so t hey pet out the fi re and crept i nt o thei r tent . Thei r sleepi ngbags were warm and fort able, so t hey al l slept soundly. I n the middl e of t he night, two boys woke up and began shouti ng. The tent was full of water! They al leapt out of t heir sleepingbags and hur ri ed outsi de. It was r ai ni ng heavil y and they f ound that a str eam had f orm ed i n the fi el d. The str eam wound it s way across t he fi el d and t hen fl owed ri ght under thei r tent ! Leson28 No parki ng 禁止停車 Jasper Whit e is one of those rar e people who beli eves i n ancient myths. He has j ust bought a new house i n the cit y, but ever si nce he m oved i n, he has had t roubl e wi th motori st s. when he r et urns hom e at night , he al ways f inds t hat som eone has par ked a car outside hi s gate. Because of this, he has not been abl e t o get hi s own car i nt o hi s garage even once. Jasper has put up39。 No Parking39。 si gns out si de his gat e, but t hese have not had any ef fect. Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gat e. It is one of the ugli est faces I have ever sen. I asked him what i t was and he told me t hat i t was Medusa, the Gor gon. Jasper hopes that she wil l t urn motori st s t o st one. But none of them has been tur ned t o st one yet ! Leson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new ser vice. The 39。t axi39。 is a smal l Swi s aer oplane cal led a 39。Pil at us Por ter39。. Thi s wonder ful pl ane can car ry seven pasenger s. The most sur pr ising thing about i t, however, is that i t can land anywher e: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed f ield. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。s f irst pasenger was a doct or who fl ew from Bi rmi ngham to a lonel y vi lage i n the Welsh mountains. Since then, Capt ai n Fawcet has f lown pasenger s to many unusual places. Once he landed on t he r oof of a block of fl at s and on anot her occasion, he landed in a deser ted car park. Captain Fawcet has just ref used a str ange r equest from a busi nesman. The man want ed t o fly t o Rockal , a l onely island in the Atl anti c Ocean, but Captain Fawcet di d not take him because t he t rip was too danger ous. Lesson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayle i s a smal ri ver that cut s across the par k near my home. I li ke sit ing by the Wayle on fi ne aft er noons. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on t he r iver bank as usual. Some childr en were playi ng games on the bank and there were some people rowing on the ri ver. Suddenly, one of t he chi l dr en ki cked a bal ver y hard and it went towar ds a passi ng boat . Some peopl e on t he bank cal led out to the man in the boa t, but he di d not hear t hem. The bal l str uck him so har d that he near ly f el l i nt o the wat er . I tur ned to l ook at t he chi ldren, but t here weren39。t any in sight : t hey had al run away! The man laughed when he realized what had happened. He caled out to t he children and t hr ew the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Suces st ory 成功者的故事 Yesterday af ternoon Frank Hawkins was tel ing me about his exper iences as a young man. Fr ank is now the head of a ver y large business pany, but as a boy he used t o wor k in a sm al shop. I t was his job to r epair bi cycles and at that ime he used t o wor k fourteen hours aday. He saved money for year s and in 1938 he bought a smal workshop of hi s own. Duri ng the war Frank used to make spar e part s for aeroplanes. At that ti me he had two helpers. By t he end of the war , the smal wor k shop had bee a l ar ge f actor y whi ch empl oyed seven hundred and t went y eight people. Frank smi led when he r em ember ed his hard ear ly years and t he l ong r oad to success. He was stil l smil ing when the door opened and his wif e came in. She want ed him to repai r t heir son39。s bicycle! Leson32 Shoppi ng made easy 購物變得很方便 Peopl e ar e not so honest as t hey once were. The tempt at ion to steal is great er than ever before espec