【正文】 one head over t he gate. I t i s one of t he ugliest f aces I have ever seen. I asked hi m what it was and he t ol d me that it was Medusa, t he Gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wil tur n mot or ists to stone. But none of t hem has been t ur ned to stone yet! Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 39。but isn39。 She l ooked at it cr it cal y for a moment.39。m hangi ng t hi s pi ct ur e on t he wal, 39。 anything. They are just pret y pat er ns. We li ke them in t he same way that we l ike pr et ty cur tain materi al. I think that young chi ldren of ten appreci at e modern pictures bet er than anyone el se. They not i ce mor e. My sister i s only seven, but she always t el s me whether my pictures ar e good or not. She c ame i nt o my room yester day. 39。t under st and them ! Do they speak Engli sh ? leson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an art st udent and I pai nt a lot of pictures. Many people pr et nd that they under st and modern art . They always t el l you what a pi ct ur e is 39。 I said. Then he spoke sl owl y, but I could not understand him. My t eacher never spoke Engl ish l ike that ! The por ter and I looked at each ot her and smi led. Then he said som ethi ng and I understood i t. 39。but ver y cl earl y as wel. The port er , however, could not understand me。You39。about39。 What are you doing ?39。 I answer ed. 39。 It 39。t it upsi de down ?39。t axi 39。s f ir st passenger was a doctor who fl ew fr om Birmi ngham to a lonel y vi lage in the Welsh mountains. Since t hen, Capt ai n Fawcet t has f lown passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on t he r oof of a block of fl at s and on anot her occasion, he landed in a deser ted car park. Captain Fawcet has just r ef used a str ange request fr om a busi nessman. The man want ed t o fl y to Rockal l, a lonely i sl and in t he Atl anti c Ocean, but Captain Fawcet did not take hi m because the t ri p was too danger ous. Lesson30 Foot bal l or pol o? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a smal ri ver that cut s across t he park near my home. I li ke sit ting by the Wayl e on f ine af ternoons. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river bank as usual . Some chil dr en were playing games on the bank and t here were some people r owi ng on the ri ver. Suddenly, one of the chil dr en kicked a bal l very har d and i t went t owards a pasing boat. Some people on the bank cal ed out t o the man i n the boat, but he did not hear them. The bal struck hi m so hard t hat he nearl y fel into t he water. I turned t o look at the chil dr en, but there wer en39。 her m ot her a f r e dres once a wek ! l esson33 O ut of t he darknes 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed bef or e the gi rl was abl e to expl ai n what had happened t o her. One aft er noon she set out fr om the coast in a sm al boat and was ca ught i n a st orm . Towar ds eveni ng, t he boat st ruck a r ock and t he gir l j um ped int o t he sea. Then she swam t o the shor e af ter spending the whol e ni ght i n the wat er . Duri ng t hat tim e she cover ed a distance of eight mi les. Ear ly next m or ni ng, she saw a l ight a head. She knew she was near t he shor e because t he l ight was hi gh up on t he cli f s. On ar ri vi ng at the shor e, t he gir l str uggled up t he cli f towar ds t he l ight she had seen. That was al l she r em ember ed. When she woke up a day l at er , she found her self i n hos pit al . Leson34 Q ui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been worri ed al t he week. Last Tuesday he received a l et ter f rom t he l ocal pol ice. In t he l et er he was asked to cal l at the st ati on. Ted wondered why he was want ed by t he pol ice, but he went t o the st ati on yest er day and now he i s not wor ried any more. At t he stati on, he was t ol d by a smil ing poli ceman that his bi cycle had been f ound. Five days ago, t he pol iceman tol d him, t he bicycle was pi cked up i n a smal vi l age four hundred mil es away. It is now being sent t o hi s home by tr ai n. Ted was m ost surpri sed when he hear d the news. He was am used t oo, because he never expect ed t he bi cycl e to be found. I t was st ol en t went y year s ago when Ted was a boy of fi teen ! Lesson35 Stop t hi ef ! 捉賊！ Rov Trent on used t o dr ive a taxi . A shor t whi le ago, however, he becam e a bus dri ver and he was not regret ted it . He i s f indi ng hi s new work f ar more excit ing. When he was dr iving al ong Cat for d Str eet recentl y, he saw t wo t hi eves r ush out of a shop and r un t owar ds a wai ti ng car . One of them was car rying a bag f ul of m oney. Roy acted quickl y and dr ove t he bus st raight at he t hi eves. The one wi th t he money got such a fr ight t hat he dropped the bag. As t he t hi eves were tr ying to get away i n t heir car , Roy drove hi s bus i nto t he back of i t. Whi le t he bat tered car was moving away, Roy st opped his bus and telephoned the pol ice. The t hi eves39。s school fr iends wil l be wait ng f or her on the Engli sh coast. Among them wil l be Erna39。Olympic City39。 the pati ent answered,39。 I said. 39。Wil you be spendi ng your hol idays abr oad this year ?39。 Wi l you be staying in Engl and?39。 Young man,39。Do you cal that a hat ?39。 my wif e answered as he looked at her self in t he mi ror . I sat down on one of t hose modern chair s with holes i n it and waited. We had been in the hat shop for half an hour and my wif e was st il i n front of the mir ror. 39。 I remarked suddenly. I regr et ted sayi ng i t almost at once. 39。 I need not r emind you of t hat ter ible ti e you bought yesterday.39。A man can never have t oo i nt o the cave hopi ng t o fi nd buried tr easur e. The l eader of t he party was examining the soil near the entr ance t o the cave when the machine showed that here was gold under the gr ound. Very excit ed, the part y dug a hol e two f et deep. They finaly f ound a smal gol d coin whi