【正文】 cal 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 famous Cal abr 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 eti 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。f r ee r i des39。 I know,39。 I t old you yester day and t he day bef or e yest erday, 39。m onst ers39。Ci garet e Smoki ng and Your Healt h39。have j ust fi nished cut ti ng t hr ee cart l oads of gol den br own macar oni st al ks. The whol e vi l age has been wor ki ng day and ni ght gat heri ng and t hr eshi ng t his year39。 I l it a ci gar et te t o cal m m y ner ves. I sm oked wi th conc ent rati on and pleasur e as I was sur e t hat thi s woul d be m y last ci gar et t e. For a whole week I di d not sm oke at al and duri ng this t im e, m y wif e suff ered t er ri bly. I had al l the usual sym pt oms of som eone gi ving up sm oki ng: a bad t em per and an enor mous appeti t e. My fr i ends kept on of feri ng me ci gar et t 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 sweet s fr om m y pocket. Af t er seven days of thi s I went t o a part y. Ever ybody ar ound m e was sm oki ng and I felt extr em el y un f or table. When m y old f ri end Bri an ur ged m e t o accept a ci gar et te, it was m or e t han I coul d bear. I t ook one guil ti ly, li t it and sm oked wit h sat isf acti on. My wi fe was deli ght ed t hat t hi ngs had r et ur ned t o norm al once m or e. Anyway, as Br i an poi nt ed out , it i s the easi est t hi ng i n t he wor ld t o gi ve up sm oki ng. He him sel f has done i t l ots of ti m es! Lesson79 By ai r 乘飛機 I used t o t ravel by ai r a great deal when I was a boy. My parents, used t o li ve i n Sout h Am er ica and I used t o f ly t her e f rom Europe i n the holi days. An air host es woul d take char ge of m e and I never had an unpl easant experi ence. I am used t o t ravel li ng by a ir and only on one occasi on have I ever f elt f ri ght ened. Aft er taking of f, we wer e f lyi ng l ow over t he cit y and slowl y gai ning he i ght, when t he plane suddenl y t urned r ound and f lew back t o the air port . Whil e we wer e wait i ng t o l and, an air host es t old us t o keep calm and t o get of f the pl ane quietl y as soon as i t had touched down. Ever ybody on boar d was wor ri ed and we were curi ous to f i nd out what had happened. Lat er we l ear nt t hat t her e was a ver y i m port ant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t ol d t hat a bomb had been pl anted on t he pl ane. Af t er we had l anded, t he pl ane was sear ched t hor oughl y. For t unatel y, nothi ng was found and fi ve hour s l at er we were abl e t o t ake of f agai n. Lesson80 The Crystal Palace 水晶宮 Per haps t he most ext raor di nar y buil di ng of t he ni eent h cent ur y was t he Cr ystal Pal ace, whi ch was bui lt i n Hyde Par k f or the Gr eat Exhi bi ti on of 1851. The Cr yst al Palace was dif fer ent f rom al l ot her bui ldi ngs i n t he wor l d, f or i t was made of ir on a nd gl as. It was one of t he bi ggest bui l di ngs of al t im e and a lot of peopl e fr om m any countr ies cam e t o see i t. A gr eat m any goods wer e sent to t he exhi bi ti on f rom var i ous part s of t he wor ld. Ther e was also a gr eat deal of m achi ner y on di spl ay. The m ost wonderf ul pi ece of m achi ner y on show was Nasm yt h39。 which have at t im es been sighted ar e si mpl y st r ange fi sh. Ocasi onal ly, unusual cr eat ur es ar e washed t o t he shor e, but they ar e rar el y caught out at sea. Som e ti me ago, however, a peculi ar f ish was caught near Madagascar. A sm al fi shi ngboat was car i ed m il es out t o sea by t he powerf ul f ish as i t pul led on t he li ne. Real i zi ng t hat thi s was no ordi nar y fi sh, t he fi sherm an m ade ever y ef ort not t o damage it i n any way. When it was event ual l y br ought t o shor e, i t was f ound t o be over t hi rt een feet l ong. I t had a head l i ke a hor se, bi g bl ue eyes, shi ni ng sil ver ski n, and a bri ght r ed tail , The fi sh, whi ch has si nce been sent to a m useum wher e i t i s being exam i ned by a scienti st , is cal ed an oar fi sh. Such creatur es have r ar el y been sen ali ve by man as t hey l i ve at a dept h of six hundr ed f eet . Lesson83 Aft er t he el ect ions 大選之 后 The f orm er Pr im e Mi ni ster, Mr Went wor t h Lane, was def eat ed i n the r ecent el ect i ons. He is now reti ri ng fr om pol it ical l if e and has gone abr oad. My fr iend, Cr awl ey, has al ways been a f anat ical opponent of Mr Lane39。 he shout ed, 39。 answer ed Crawl ey,39。 t o peopl e on t hei r way t o work. Thi s wi l r el i eve pr essur e on t he t r ai ns to some ext ent. Meanwhil e, a num ber of universit y st udent s have vol unt eer ed t o dr i ve buses whi l e the str i ke l ast s. Al l t he young m en are exper t dri ver s, but bef or e they dri ve any of t he buses, t hey wil l have t o pas a speci al t est . The st udents ar e goi ng t o take t he t est i n t wo days39。 Lesson77 A successf ul operati on 一例成功的手術 The m ummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper ati on. The mummy is 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 plates t aken of t he mummy, doct ors have been t ryi ng to fi nd out whether the woman died of a r ar e disease. The onl y way t o do thi s was to operat e. The operati on, whi ch lasted f or over four hours , pr oved to be ver y di f icult because of the hard r esi n whi ch covered t he ski n. The doctor s removed a sect ion of the m ummy and sent i t to a labor ator y. They also f ound somethi ng which t he X ray of the god Duamut ef . This god whi ch has t