【正文】 tting 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。 is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 39。Jasper White is one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths. He has just bought a new house in the city, but ever since he moved in, he has had trouble with motorists. when he returns home at night, he always finds that someone has parked a car outside his gate. Because of this, he has not been able to get his own car into his garage even once. Jasper has put up39。Late in the afternoon, the boys put up their tent in the middle of a field. As soon as this was done, they cooked a meal over an open fire. They were all hungry and the food smelt good. After a wonderful meal, they told stories and sang songs by the camp fire. But some time later it began to rain. The boys felt tired so they pet out the fire and crept into their tent. Their sleepingbags were warm and fortable, so they all slept soundly. In the middle of the night, two boys woke up and began shouting. The tent was full of water! They all leapt out of their sleepingbags and hurried outside. It was raining heavily and they found that a stream had formed in the field. The stream wound its way across the field and then flowed right under their tent! I looked at it again. She was right! It was!s all right,39。It39。 she asked. 39。. Of course, many pictures arc not 39。ll soon learn English!39。 I repeated my question several times and at last he understood. He answered me, but he spoke neither slowly nor clearly. 39。Well,39。5o. 39。 The manager was sympathetic, but he could do nothing. 39。 I left the money in my room,39。Lesson24 It could be worse 不幸中之萬(wàn)幸five months ago. In my letter, I told her that she could stay with us. The house has many large rooms and there is a lovely garden. It is a very modern house, so it looks strange to some people. It must be the only modern house in the district.I entered the hotel manager39。 I said, 39。Everyone39。I found this outside this gentleman39。 I said to the manager, 39。I am a foreigner,39。 he said. I wonder. In England, each man speaks a different language. The English understand each other, but I don39。lesson26 The best art critics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家about39。 I39。s a new one. Do you like it ?39。 she said, 39。 No Parking39。Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！Pilatus Porter39。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(gòu)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(jìn)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(gè)叫帽子嗎？You needn39。50 and I felt very upset.39。s not there now.39。 he said. He started to plain about this wicked world but was interrupted by a knock at the door. A girl came in and put an envelope on his desk. It contained amp。 she said. 39。I arrived in London at last. The railway station was big, black and dark. I did