【正文】 t he would have to stay in hospital for another two weeks. Then Dr Millington asked the caller if he was a relative of the patient.39。Lesson39 Am I all right? 我是否痊愈？Lesson38 Everything except the weather 惟獨沒有考慮到天氣Olympic City39。Lesson37 The Olympic Games 奧林匹克運動會s school friends will be waiting for her on the English coast. Among them will be Erna39。Lesson36 Across the Channel 橫渡海峽Rov Trenton used to drive a taxi. A short while ago, however, he became a busdriver and he was not regretted it. He is finding his new work far more exciting. When he was driving along Catford Street recently, he saw two thieves rush out of a shop and run towards a waiting car. One of them was carrying a bag full of money. Roy acted quickly and drove the bus straight at the thieves. The one with the money got such a fright that he dropped the bag. As the thieves were trying to get away in their car, Roy drove his bus into the back of it. While the battered car was moving away, Roy stopped his bus and telephoned the police. The thieves39。Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letterNearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her. One afternoon she set out from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm. Towards evening, the boat struck a rock and the girl jumped into the sea. Then she swam to the shore after spending the whole night in the water. During that time she covered a distance of eight miles. Early next morning, she saw a light ahead. She knew she was near the shore because the light was high up on the cliffs. On arriving at the shore, the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen. That was all she remembered. When she woke up a day later, she found herself in hospital. her mother a free dress once a week !Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事The Wayle is a small river that cuts across the park near my home. I like sitting by the Wayle on fine afternoons. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river bank as usual. Some children were playing games on the bank and there were some people rowing on the river. Suddenly, one of the children kicked a ball very hard and it went towards a passing boat. Some people on the bank called out to the man in the boat, but he did not hear them. The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water. I turned to look at the children, but there weren39。t any in sight: they had all run away! The man laughed when he realized what had happened. He called out to the children and threw the ball back to the bank. Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man. Frank is now the head of a very large business pany, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop. It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a small workshop of his own. During the war Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two helpers. By the end of the war, the small workshop had bee a large factory which employed seven hundred and twentyeight people. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success. He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their son39。Lesson32 Shopping made easy 購物變得很方便 from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered car was badly damaged and easy to recognize. Shortly afterwards, the police stopped the car and both men were arrested. Erna Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow. She is going to set out from the French coast at five o39。s mother, who swam the Channel herself when she was a girl.The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years39。. Workers will have pleted the new roads by the end of this year. By the end of next year, they will have finished work on the new stadium. The fine modern buildings have been designed by Kurt Gunter. Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up. We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country.My old friend, Harrison, had lived in the Mediterranean for many years before he returned to England. He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down in the country. He had no sooner returned than he bought a fine house and went to live there. Almost immediately he began to plain about the weather, for even though it was still summer, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold. After so many years of sunshine, Harrison got a shock. He acted as if he had never lived in England before. In the end, it was more than he could bear. He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country. The dream he had had for so many years ended there. Harrison had thought of everything except the weather.While John Gilbert was in hospital, he asked his doctor to tell him whether his operation had been successful, but the doctor refused to do so. The following day, the patient asked for a bedside No,39。Lesson40 Food and talk 進餐與交談 A new play is ing to The Globe soon,39。 No,39。 No,39。 I asked. 39。In despair, I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner. if you ate more and talked less, we would both enjoy our dinner !39。lesson41 Do you call that a hat? 你把那個叫帽子嗎？You needn39。 We mustn39。39。 I need no