【正文】 her as qui ckly as possi bl e. Then t he woman sim pl y t ook t he par cel and wal ked out of the shop wit hout paying. When she was ar r est ed, t he detecti ve f ound out t hat he shop assistant was her daught er. The gir l39。Pi l at us Port er 39。 No Par king39。 si gns out si de hi s gat e, but t hese have not had any ef ect. Now he has put an ugl y st one head over the gate. It i s one of t he ugl i est faces I have ever seen. I asked him what i t was and he t old m e t hat it was Medusa, t he Gor gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l t urn m ot ori st s t o st one. But none of t hem has been t urned t o st one yet ! Lesson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車！ Capt ain Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new ser vice. The 39。. This wonderf ul pl ane can car ry seven passengers. The m ost sur pr isi ng t hing about i t, however , is t hat i t can l and anywher e: on snow, wat er, or even on a pl oughed f iel d. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。 gave39。s f ather wil l set out wit h her i n a smal boat. Mr Hart has tr ai ned hi s daught er f or year s. Tom or row he wil l be watching her anxi ousl y as she swim s t he l ong di stance to Engl and. Er na i ntends t o t ake short r est s ever y t wo hour s. She wi l have som et hing t o dri nk but she wi l not eat any sol i d f ood. Most of Er na39。They wi l also be buil ding new roads and a speci al rail wayl ine. The Gam es wil l be hel d j ust out si de t he capit al and t he whol e ar ea wi l be cal ed 39。 No, 39。 A new pl ay is i ng t o The Gl obe soon, 39。 No,39。 No, 39。 No,39。 if you at e m ore and t al ked less, we woul d both enj oy our di nner !39。You needn39。t buy t hi ngs we don39。t have sai d t hat,39。 I f ind i t beauti ful, 39。 may r eveal somet hi ng of val ue fair ly soon. Lesson56 Fast er t han sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a race is hel d for old car s. A lot of car s ent ered f or this r ace last year and t her e was a gr eat deal of exci tement just bef ore i t began. One of t he most handsom e car s was a Roll s Royce Sil ver Ghost. The most unusual car was a Benz which had only t hree wheels. Bui lt i n 1885, i t was the oldest car taking par t. Af ter a great many loud explosions, t he race began. Many of the cars br oke down on the course and some dr iver s spent more t im e under thei r car s than in them !t i r ed so t hey pet out the f ir e and cr ept i nto t hei r tent. Their sleepingbags were war m and f ort abl e, so t hey al l sl ept soundl y. I n t he middle of t he night, t wo boys woke up and began shout ing. The tent was f ull of water ! They al l leapt out of their sleepi ngbags and hur ri ed out si de. I t was rai ni ng heavil y and they f ound that a st ream had f orm ed in t he fi eld. The st ream wound i ts way acr oss t he fi el d and then f lowed r ight under t hei r tent! Leson28 No parking 禁止停車 Jasper Whit e is one of t hose r ar e peopl e who beli eves i n anci ent myt hs. He has just bought a new house i n t he ci ty, but ever si nce he moved in, he has had t rouble wi th motor ists. when he retur ns hom e at ni ght , he al ways fi nds t hat someone has parked a car outside his gat e. Because of thi s, he has not been abl e t o get hi s own car i nto hi s gar age even once. Jasper has put up39。 i s a sm al l Swiss aeroplane cal led a 39。t any in si ght : they ha d al run away! The man l aughed 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 man. Frank i s now t he head of a very l arge busines pany, but as a boy he used t o work in a smal l shop. It was his j ob to repai r bicyc les and at t hat t ime he used to work fourt en hour s a day. He saved money for year s and in 1938 he bought a smal wor kshop of hi s own. Duri ng the war Fr ank used to make spar e par ts f or aer opl anes. At that ti me 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 whi ch em pl oyed seven hundred and twent y eight people. Frank smi led when he r em ember ed his hard ear ly years and t he long r oad t o succes. He was sti l smi li ng when the door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She want ed hi m to r epai r their son39。 car was badl y dam aged and easy to r ecogni ze. Shor tl y aft er war ds, t he poli ce st opped t he car and bot h m en were ar rested. Lesson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Er na Hart is goi ng t o swi m acr oss t he Engl ish Channel t omorr ow. She is going t o set out fr om t he French coast at f ive o39。s m other, who swam the Channel hersel f when she was a gir l. Leson37 The Ol ym pic G ames 奧林匹克運動會 The Ol ympic Gam es wil l be hel d in our count ry in f our years39。. Wor ker s wil l have pl et ed the new r oads by t he end of this year. By t he end of ne xt year , t hey wil l have f ini shed wor k on the new st adi um. The fi ne modern buil dings have been desi gned by Kur t Gunter . Ever ybody wi l be wat chi ng anxi ously as t he new buil di ngs go up. We are al l ver y exci ted and are l ooki ng for ward to t he Olympi c Games because they have never been held bef or e i n thi s countr y. Lesson38 Everythi ng except the weat her 惟獨沒有考慮到天氣 My old fr iend, Har r ison, had li ved in t he Medit er anean f or m any years bef or e he r et urned t o Engl and. He had of ten dr eamed of r et ir ing i n England and had planned t o set le down i n the countr y. He had no sooner r etur ned t han he bought a fi ne house and went to l ive t her e. Al most im medi ately he began to pl ain about t he weather, for even though it was sti l summer , i t rained conti nual y a nd it was of ten bi ter ly cold. Af ter so many year s of sunshine, Har r ison got a shock. He acted as i f he had never li ved i n England befor e. I n the end, it was mor e than he coul d bear. He had hardly had time to set tl