【正文】 her e. Do you see t hat noti ce ? It sa ys No Camping i n case you can39。 Meanwhi le, two other act or s, Rockwal Sl inger and Merl in Gr eeves, had car ied t wo l arge f ood basket s to a shady spot under some t rees. When they had al made themselves for table, a st ranger appear ed. He looked ver y angr y. 39。t be bet er , Glor ia,39。s fi shi ng, or eight hour s in a ci nem a seeing t he sam e fi lm over and over again, is usualy as far as they get . They have al been put t o sham e by a boy who, whil e playing t ruant, tr avel led 1600 mi les. He hi tch hiked to Dover and, towards eveni ng, went int o a boat o f ind somewhere t o sleep. When he woke up next mor ning, he di scovered t hat t he boat had, in the meanti me, tr avel ed to Cal ais. No one not iced t he boy as he cr ept off . From there, he hit ch hiked to Par is i n a l or r y. The dri ver gave him a f ew biscuit s and a cup of coff ee and left hi m j ust outside t he city. The next car the boy stoppe d did not take him i nt o t he centr e of Pari s as he hoped it woul d, but to Per pignan on the Fr enchSpanish border. There he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back to England by t he local author it ies. He has surel y set up a r ecor d f or t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading school . Lesson74 Out of the l im el ight 舞臺之外 An anci ent bus stopped by a dry r iver bed and a par ty of f amous act or s and act resses got off . Dressed i n dark gl asses and ol d clothes, t hey had taken special pr ecaut ions so that no one should r ecognize t hem . But as they soon discovered, disgui ses can someti mes be too perf e ct . 39。hour , he had great di f icult y i n cont roll ing t he car because a t yre burst duri ng the f ir st r un. Af t er hi s at tempt , Cam pbel l was di sappointed t o l ear n that his aver age speed had been 299 mi les per hour . However , a few days l at er, he was tol d that a mi st ake had been made. Hi s aver age speed had been 301 m iles per hour . Since that ti me, racing dri vers have reached s peeds of over 400 m iles an hour. Foll owing hi s father39。Thi s is a wonderf ul place for a piic, 39。 Br inksley Meer s agr ed. 39。Now you gut out of here, al of you! 39。t r ead !39。 don39。 Oh, is i t ?39。 l eson75 SO S 呼救信號 When a l ight passenger pl ane fl ew off course some t ime ago, it crashed in t he mountains and it s pil ot was ki l ed. The only pa ssenger s, a young wom an and her two baby daughters, were unhurt . It was the m iddle of wi nter . Snow l ay thi ck on the gr ound. The woman knew t hat the nearest vi l age was mil es away. When i t gr ew dar k. she tur ned a sui tcase i nto a bed and put the chil dr en i nside i t, cover ing t hem wi th al l the clot hes she coul d f ind. Duri ng the night , i t got t er r ibly col d. The wom an kept as near as she could to t he chi ldr en and even tr ied t o get into the case herself , but i t was too smal . Ear ly ,next m or ning she hear d planes passing overhead and wonder ed how she could send a signal. Then she had an i dea. She st am ped out the let ters39。 said t he voi ce of the t el evi si on announcer ,39。Ci gar et e Smoking and Your Healt h39。m onst er s39。s foot st eps m any years l ater, Si r Malcolm 39。 said Gl or ia Gl eam . 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm f ans! Why don39。 he shouted: 39。 39。t be too hard on us. I 39。 sai d t he sheri f wi th a sneer. 39。 SOS39。 we ar e taking you t o the m acar oni f ields of Calabri a. Macar oni has been gr own i n thi s ar ea for over si x hundr ed year s. Two of t he leading gr ower s, Gi useppe Mol dova and Ri car do Br abante, tel l me that they have been expect ing a splendid cr op thi s year and har vest ing has begun earl ier than usual . Her e you can see t wo wor ker s who, bet ween them, have j ust f ini shed cutt ing t hr ee car t loads of gol den br own macaroni st alks. The whol e vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hr eshi ng this year39。 I l it a cigaret te t o cal m my nerves. I smoked wi th concentr ati on and pl easure as I was sure t hat his woul d be my l ast cigaret te. For a whol e week I did not smoke at al l and dur ing t hi s ti me, my wi fe suf fered t er ibl y. I had al t he usual sympt om s of someone giving up sm oki ng: a bad t em per and an enor mous appet it e. My fr iends kept on of fer ing me ci gar et es and cigars. 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 ter seven days of t his I went to a par ty. Everybody around me was smoking and I f elt ext remel y unf ort abl e. When my ol d f ri end Br ian ur ged me t o acept a ci gar et e, i t was more t han I coul d bear . I t ook one gui lt il y, l it i t and smoked wi th sati sf act ion. My wi f e was del ighted t hat t hings had retur ned to nor mal once mor e. Anyway, as Bri an poi nted out, i t i s the easiest t hing i n the wor ld to gi ve up smoki ng. He hi mself has done i t lots of t imes! Lesson79 By air 乘飛機(jī) I used to t ravel by ai r a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ent s, used to l ive i n South Am er i ca and I used to f ly there f rom Europe i n the hol idays. An ai rhost es woul d take char ge of me and I never had an unpl easant experi ence. I am used t o t ravel li ng by air and only on one occasion have I ever f elt f ri ght ened. Aft er taking of f, we wer e f lying l ow over the cit y and slowly gai ning height, when t he pl ane suddenl y t ur ned round and fl ew back to the air por t. Whil e we wer e wait ing t o land, an ai r host ess t ol d us to keep calm and to get off t he plane qui etl y as soon as it had t ouched down. Ever ybody on board was wor r ied and we wer e cur ious t o fi nd out what had happened. Later we l ear nt that there was a ver y impor tant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t old t hat a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Af ter we had