【正文】 any sol id f ood. Most of Er na39。 gave39。. This 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。 signs out si de his gate, but t hese have not had any ef ect . Now he has put an ugl y stone head over the gate. It i s one of t he ugliest faces I have ever seen. I asked hi m what it was and he t ol d me that it was Medusa, the Gor gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wil l tur n motor ists to stone. But none of them has been tur ned t o stone yet! Leson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Captai n Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 39。but isn39。 She looked at i t cr it ical y for a m oment .39。m hangi ng thi s pictur e on the wal l, 39。 anythi ng. They are just pr ety pat terns. We like t hem i n the same way t hat we li ke pr et y cur tai n mate r ial. I t hi nk that young chi ldren of t en appr eci at e m oder n pictur es bet er than anyone else. They not ice mor e. My sister is only seven, but she al ways tel s me whethe r my pi ctures ar e good or not. She came i nt o my room yester day. 39。t under stand them ! Do t hey speak Engl ish ? l esson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評論家 I am an art student and I paint a l ot of pict ures. Many people pr etend that they under stand modern ar t. They al ways tel you what a pict ur e i s 39。 I sai d. Then he spoke sl owly, but I could not under st and him. My teacher never spoke Engl ish l ike that ! The por ter and I looked at each other and smi led. Then he said somet hi ng and I under st ood it. 39。t her e is sti l some honest y in this wor ld !39。s room39。s losing m oney t hese days, 39。and it 39。s off ice and sat down. I had just l ost amp。 50 and I f elt very upset.39。s not there now. 39。 he said. He star ted t o plain about this wi cked worl d but was inter rupted by a knock at the door. A gi rl came i n and put an envel ope on his desk. I t contai ned amp。 she sai d. 39。 lesson25 Do the Engl ish speak Engl ish? 英國人 講 的是英語嗎？ I ar r ived in London at last. The rai lway stat ion was bi g, black and dark. I did not know the way to m y hotel, so I asked a por ter. I not onl y spoke Engli sh ver y caref ul ly, but ver y clearl y as wel. The por ter, however , coul d not understand me。You39。about 39。 What ar e you doing ?39。 I answer ed. 39。 I t39。t it upsidedown ?39。t axi 39。s f ir st pasenger was a doct or who f lew f r om Bi rm ingham to a lonely vi l age i n t he Welsh m ountai ns. Since t hen, Captain Fawcet has fl own pase nger s to many unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f l at s and on anot her occasion, he landed in a deser ted car par k. Capt ain Fawcet has just r efused a str ange r equest f rom a busi nesman. The man wanted to fl y to Rockal , a lonely i sland in the At lanti c Ocean, but Capt ai n Fawcet t did not take him because the t ri p was too danger ous. Leson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a smal l r iver that cut s acr oss the park near my home. I li ke si t ing by t he Wayle on fi ne af ter noons. I t was warm l ast Sunday, so I went and sat on t he ri ver bank as usual. Some chil dren wer e playing games on t he bank and ther e were some people r owing on t he ri ver . Suddenly, one of the chil dr en kicked a bal ver y hard and i t went t owards a pasi ng boat . Some people on the bank cal led out to t he man in the boat, but he di d not hear them. The bal str uck hi m so hard that he nearl y f el l int o the wat er . I tur ned t o l ook at t he chi ldren, but t her e wer en39。 her mother a f ree dress once a week ! l eson33 Out of the darkness 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed bef or e t he gi rl was able to explain what had happened to her . One af ter noon she set out f rom the coast in a smal l boat and was caught in a st orm. Towar ds evening, the boat str uck a r ock and t he gi r l j umped int o the sea. Then she swam to the shor e aft er spending t he whol e night in the water . Duri ng that ti me she covered a di st ance of eight mi les. Ear ly next morni ng, she saw a li ght ahead. She knew she was near the shore because t he li ght was high up on the cli f s. On ar iving at t he shore, the gi rl str uggl ed up the cl if f towar ds t he li ght she had sen. That was al she r em em ber ed. When she woke up a day l at er , she found her sel f in hospit al . Lesson34 Q uick work 破案“神速” Ted Robi nson has been worr ied al t he week. Last Tuesday he r ecei ved a let er f r om t he l ocal poli ce. I n t he l et t er he was asked t o cal l at he st ati on. Ted wondered why he was want ed by the poli ce, but he went t o t he st at ion yest erday and now he i s not wor ri ed any m ore. At t he st at ion, he was tol d by a sm il i ng poli cem an that hi s bicycl e had been found. Fi ve days ago, t he pol i ceman t ol d him , the bi cycle was pi cked up i n a sm al vil l age f our hundred mi l es away. It is now bei ng sent t o hi s hom e by t rai n. Ted was m ost sur pri sed when he heard t he news. He was am used t oo, because he never expect ed t he bi cycl e to be f ound. I t was st ol en t went y year s ago when Ted was a boy of fi ft en ! Lesson35 St op thi ef ! 捉賊！ Rov Trenton used to dr i ve a t axi . A short whi le ago, however, he becam e a bus dr i ver and he was not r egr et ed it. He is f i ndi ng hi s new wor k f ar m or e exci ti ng. When he was dr i vi ng al ong Catf ord St r et r ecent l y, he saw t wo t hi eves r ush out of a shop and r un t owar ds a wait ng car . One of them was car rying a bag full of money. Roy act ed qui ckl y and drove the bus str aight at t he thieves. The one wi th t he money got such a f ri ght t hat he dropped the bag. As the t hieves wer e t rying to get away in t hei r car , Roy drove his bus i nt o t he back of it . Whi le t he bat tered car was moving away, Roy stopped hi s bus and t ele