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, she saw a li ght ahead. She knew she was near t he shore because t he li ght was high up on the cli f s. On ar iving at t he shore, t he gi rl str uggl ed up the cl if f towards t he li ght she had seen. That was al she remembered. When she woke up a day lat er , she f ound her sel f i n hospi t al. Lesson34 Q ui ck 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 t he st ati on. Ted wondered why he was want ed by t he poli ce, but he went t o t he st ati on yest erday and now he i s not wor ri ed any m ore. At t he st at ion, he was t ol d by a sm il ing poli cem an that hi s bicycl e had been f ound. Fi ve days ago, t he pol i ceman t ol d him , t he bicycle was pi cke d up i n a sm al vil lage f our hundred mi les away. I t is now bei ng sent t o hi s hom e by t rai n. Ted was m ost sur pri sed when he he ard t he news. He was am used t oo, because he never expect ed t he bi cycl e t o be f ound. It was st ol en t went y year s ago when Ted was a boy of f if t 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 along Catf or d 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 ing car. One of t hem was car ryi ng a bag ful l of m oney. Roy act ed quickly and drove t he bus st raight at the thi eves. The one wi th the money got such a f ri ght t hat he dr opped t he bag. As t he thieve s were t ryi ng to get away in their car, Roy dr ove hi s bus i nto t he back of i t. Whi le the bater ed car was movi ng away, Roy stopped his bus and telephoned t he poli ce. The thi eves39。s fi rst pasenger was a doctor who f lew f r om Bi rm ingham to a lone ly vi l age i n t he Welsh mountai ns. Since t hen, Capt ain Fawcet has fl own pasenger s to many unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lat 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 nessman. 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 Wayle i s a smal ri ver t hat cuts acr oss t he par k near my hom e. I l ike sit ti ng by the Wayl e on f ine aft ernoons. I t was war m last Sunday, so I went and sat on the r iver bank as usual . Som e childr en were pl ayi ng gam es on the bank and there wer e som e peopl e rowi ng on the r iver . Suddenl y, one of t he chi ldren ki cked a bal l ver y har d and it went towar ds a passing boat. Some peopl e on t he bank cal ed out t o the m an in t he boat , but he did not hear t hem . The bal l st ruck him so har d t hat he near ly fel i nto t he water . I t urned to look at the chil dr en, but ther e weren39。t axi39。 is a sm al l Swiss aer oplane cal led a 39。t any in si ght : they had al l run away! The man l aughed when he reali zed what had happened. He cal led out to t he chi ldr en and t hrew the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Succes story 成功者的故事 Yester day af ternoon Fr ank Hawki ns was tel ing m e about his experi ences as a young m an. Frank i s now t he head of a very l arge busi ness pany, but as a boy he used to work in a smal l s hop. I t was his j ob to repai r bicycl es and at t hat t ime he used to wor k f our t een hour s a day. He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a sm al l work shop of his own. Dur ing t he war Fr ank used t o make spar e part s for aer oplanes. At that ti me he had t wo helpers. By t he end of t he war, the smal l wor kshop had bee a large f act ory whi ch employed seven hundr ed and twenty eight people. Frank smi led when he r em em ber ed his hard ear ly years and t he l ong road t o succes. He was sti l smil ing when the door ope ned and hi s wi fe came i n. She wanted hi m t o r epair t hei r son39。 car was badl y dam aged and easy t o r ecognize. Shor tl y aft er wards, the poli ce st opped t he car and both m en were ar rested. Lesson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Erna Har t is going to swi m across the Engli sh Channel tomor row. She i s goi ng to set out f rom the Fr ench coast at f ive o39。s mot her , who swam t he Channel her sel f when she was a gi rl . Lesson37 The Olym pic Gam es 奧林匹克運(yùn)動會 The Ol ympic Games wi l be held in our count ry i n f our years39。. Wor ker s wi l have pl eted t he new roads by the end of thi s year . By the end of next year , they wi l have fi nished wor k on t he new stadium. The f ine modern bui ldi ngs have been designed by Kurt Gunt er . Ever ybody wi l l be wat chi ng anxi ousl y as the new buil dings go up. We ar e al l ver y exci ted and ar e looking f orwar d to the Ol ym pi c Games because they have never been hel d bef ore i n t hi s count ry. Leson38 Everyt hi ng except t he weat her 惟獨(dú)沒有考慮到天氣 My ol d f ri end, Har ison, had l ived i n the Medi ter ranean f or many year s bef ore he r etur ned t o England. He had oft en dr eam ed of r eti ri ng in Engl and and had planned to set le down in t he countr y. He had no sooner ret ur ned than he bought a f ine house and went to li ve there. Alm ost i mmediatel y he began t o plain about the weather, f or even t hough i t was st il l summ er , it r ai ned conti nual ly and i t was oft en bi t er ly col d. Af t er so m any years of sunshine, Har ison got a shock. He act ed as if he had never li ved in Engl and befor e. I n t he end, it was m or e t han he could bear. He had har dl y had ti me t o set tl e down when he sold t he house and lef t he count ry. The dream he had had f or so m any years ended there. Har ison had thought of everythi ng except the weathe