【正文】 of this I went to a par ty. Everybody around me was smoking and I f elt ext rem el y un fort abl e. When my ol d f ri end Br i an ur ged me t o acept a ci garet e, i t was more t han I coul d bear . I took one gui lt il y, l it i t and smoke d wi th sati sf act ion. My wi f e was del ighted t hat hings had retur ned to nor mal once mor e. Anyway, as Bri an poi nted out, i t i s the eas iest t hing i n the wor ld to gi ve up sm oki ng. He hi mself has done i t lots of t im es! Lesson79 By air 乘飛機 I used to t ravel by ai r a great deal when I was a boy. My parents, used t o li ve in Sout h Amer ica and I used t o f ly t her e f rom Europe in the holi days. An air host ess would take char ge of me and I never had an unpl easant exper ience. I am used t o tr avel li ng by ai r and onl y on one occasion have I ever f el t fr ightened. Af t er t aki ng off , we were fl yi ng low over t he city and sl owl y gaini ng hei ght , when the pl ane suddenly t ur ned r ound and fl ew back to t he air por t. Whil e we wer e wait ing t o land, an ai r host ess tol d us to keep calm and to get off t he pl ane qui etly as soon as it had t ouched down. Everybody on board was wor ri ed 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 im por tant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t ol d t hat a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Af ter we had l anded, the plane was sear ched t hor oughl y. For tunately, nothing was f ound and fi ve hour s later we wer e able t o take of f again. Leson80 The Cryst al Pal ace 水晶宮 Per haps t he most extr aor dinary bui lding of t he nieent h cent ury was the Cr yst al Palace, whi ch was buil t i n Hyde Park for the Gr eat Exhi biti on of 1851. The Cr yst al Palace was dif fer ent f rom a l other bui ldi ngs i n the wor l d, f or it was made of ir on and gl as. It was one of the bi ggest bui ldings of al t ime and a l ot of people f rom many count ri es came to see it . A gr eat many goods wer e sent t o the exhibit ion f r om vari ous par ts of the wor ld. There was al so a gr eat deal of machi ner y on di spl ay. The most wonder ful piece of machi ner y on show was Nasmyth39。 we ar e t aki ng you to t he macar oni f iel ds of Cal abr ia. Macar oni has been grown i n t hi s area f or over six hundred year s. Two of the l eading gr owers, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricardo Br abant e, t el l me t hat t hey have been expect ing a spl endid cr op thi s year and harvest ing has begun earl ier t han usual . Here you can se two wor kers who, between them, have just f i ni shed cut t i ng t hr ee car t l oads of gol den brown m acaroni stalks. The whole vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hreshi ng thi s year 39。 SOS39。 said the sher if f wi th a sneer . 39。t be t oo har d on us. I 39。 39。 he shout ed: 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm fans! Why don39。 sai d Gl ori a Gl eam. 39。s f oot st eps m any years l ater, Si r Malcolm 39。Mr Eames, 39。wait ing r oom ! 39。l e wi th you, 39。 I li ed, 39。m going t o.. .39。 39。Hul lo, Eli zabeth, 39。Hul l o, Ber t, 39。 n l aughed at st ori es t old by seamen, i t is now known t hat m any of t hese 39。 I said. 39。 Ber t answered. 39。 No, not at al l, 39。 39。but I39。 he answer ed.39。 l eson69 But not murder! 并非謀殺！ I was bei ng tested f or a dri vi ng li cence f or t he thi rd t im e. I had been asked to dr ive i n heavy t raf fi c and had done so succesf ul ly. Af ter havi ng been inst ruct ed to dr ive out of t own, I began to acquir e conf idence. Sure that I had passed, I was al most beginning t o enjoy m y test. The exam iner must have been pl eased wit h m y per for mance, f or he smi led and sai d, 39。 he said, in a mournf ul voi ce,39。s son, Donald, also set up a wor l d record. Like hi s father , he was dr ivi ng a car cal ed Bluebir d. Lesson73 The record hol der 紀(jì)錄保持者 Lit tl e boys who play tr uant f rom school ar e unim agi nat ive. A quiet day39。 It couldn39。t we e mor e of ten ?39。 I39。 Look, sheri f , 39。m Rockwal Sli nger and thi s is Mer li n Gr eeves.39。Wel l, I 39。 in t he snow. For tunat ely, a pil ot saw t he signal and sent a m essage by radio t o t he nearest town. It was not long befor e a heli copter ar ived on t he scene to rescue t he sur vivors of t he pl ane cr ash. Leson76 April Fools Day 愚人節(jié) 39。s crop befor e the September r ai ns. On the r ight, you can see Mrs Br abant e her sel f. She has been helping her husband f or t hir ty years now. Mrs Br abante is t al king t o the m anager of t he local 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 har vest : the f am ous Cal abr ian macaroni eat ing peti ti on ! Signor Fratel li, t he present cham pi on, has won i t every year since 1961. And t hat ends our speci al bull e ti n for t oday, Thur sday, Apri l 1st . We ar e now r et urni ng you to t he st udi o.39。s st eam ham mer. Though in t hose days, t ravel li ng was not as easy as i t is t oday, steam boats car ied t housands of visit ors across the Channel f rom Europe. On ar ivi ng in Engl and, they wer e taken to the Cr yst al Palace by t rain. There wer e six m il lion vi sitor s in al l, and the pr ofi ts f rom the exhibit ion wer e used to buil d museum s and col leges. Later, t he Crystal Palace was moved to South London. It r em ai ned one of t he most f amous bui ldi ngs i n t he worl d until i t was bur nt down in 1936. Lesson81 Escape 脫逃 When he had ki led t he guar d, the pri soner of war qui ckl y dragged him int o the bushes. Wor ki ng r api dl y i n the darknes, he soon changed i nto t he dead m a n39。Hul l o, Ber t, 39。Hul lo, Eli zabeth, 39。 39。m going t o.. .39。 I li ed, 39。l e wi th you, 39。wait ing r oom ! 39。Mr Eames, 39。s f oot st eps m any years l ater, Si r Malcolm 39。 sai d Gl ori a Gl eam. 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm fans! Why don39。 he shout ed: 39。