【正文】 f ly there f rom Europe i n the holi days. An ai rhostes would take char ge of me and I never had an unpleasant experience. I am used to t ravel ing by air and only on one occasion have I ever f el t f ri ghtened. After taki ng of f, we wer e f lying low over the city and sl owl y gaining height, when the plane suddenly t ur ned r ound and fl ew back t o the ai rpor t. Whil e we were wait ing to land, an ai rhost ess told us to keep calm and to get off t he plane quietly as soon as i t had touched down. Everybody on boar d was worr ied and we were cur ious t o find out what had happened. Lat er we learnt t hat ther e was a ver y important person on board. The pol ice had been told that a bomb had been plant ed on the pl ane. eof f r ey l oves. He pr epared the speech carefull y and went to the wedding wit h Jenny. He had incl uded a l ar ge number of f unny st or ies in the speech and, of course, it was a gr eat success. As soon as he had f inished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffr ey was ali tl e di sappointed by t hi s but he did as hi s daughter asked. On t he way home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech. To his sur pr ise, she said she hadn39。 we ar e taki ng you to the macaroni f ields of Cal abr ia. Macar oni has been gr own i n this area for over six hundred years. Two of t he l eading gr owers, Giuseppe Moldova and Ri cardo Brabante, t el l me t hat they have been expect ing a splendid crop thi s year and harvesting has begun earl ier than usual. Her e you can se t wo wor kers who, bet wen them, have just f inished cut ting three car tl oads of gol den brown macaroni stalks. The whol e vi l age has been wor ki ng day and night gat heri ng and threshing this year 39。 SOS39。 sai d the sher if f wi th a sneer . 39。t be t oo hard on us. I39。 39。 he shout ed: 39。No newspaper men, no f il m fans! Why don39。 sai d Gloria Gl eam. 39。s f ootsteps many years later, Sir Malcol m39。Mr Eames,39。wai ting r oom ! 39。l e wi th you,39。but I39。 39。 No, not at al ,39。 Hul lo, El izabet h, 39。 Leson66 Sweet as honey! 像蜜一樣甜！ The Hathel d Puf fin i s a moder n aer o pl ane, but i ts designer, Mr John Wim penny, i s finding it dif icul t to get it off the gr ound. The reason f or t hi s is that t hi s plane is al so a bicycl e. It s pi lot has t o pedal har d to get it into t he air . Af ter Mr Wimpenny had t he plane built , i t was test ed t hor oughl y. In 1961, it was t he f irst manpower ed air cr af t o fl y half a mil e. Whil e being fl own by a champion amateur cycli st in 1963, the pl ane cr ashed on an ai rfi el d. Since t hen, Mr Wimpenny has had it rebui lt. He has had t he l ength of t he wi ngs increased so that t hey now measure 93 feet al most as long as t hose of aDakota. Many peopl e have shown i nt er est in this new and unusual spor t. But though air cyclists may lear n how t o fl y over shor t di st ances, and may, event ual y, even get across t he English Channel, it is doubtf ul whet her they wi l ever cycl e across t he At lant ic. Lesson67 Volcanoes 火山 Har oun Tazi ef f t he Poli sh sci enti st, has spent his l ifet ime studying act ive volcanoes and deep caves in al part s of the world. In 1948, he went to l ake Kivu in t he Congo t o obser ve a new volcano which he l at er named Kit ur o. Tazief f was able t o set up his camp ver y close to t he volcano while i t was er upti ng viol entl y. Though he managed to t ake a number of br il liant phot ographs, he could not stay near the volcano f or ver y long. He noti ced that a r iver of l iquid rock was i ng t owards him. It threat ened to sur round him pletel y, but Tazi ef f managed to escape just in t ime. He wait ed until the vol cano became qui et and he was abl e to r et ur n two days later. Thi s time, he managed t o cl imb into t he mouth of Kituro so that he could t ake photogr aphs and measure t emperatures. Tazief has oft en r isked his lif e in t hi s way. He has been abl e to t el us mor e about act ive volcanoes t ha n any man al i ve. Lesson68 Persistent 糾纏不休 I crossed t he str et o avoid meet ing hi m, but he saw me and came runni ng t owards me. I t was no use pr et ending that I had not sen hi m, so I waved to him. I never enjoy meet ing Ber t Dykes. He never has anything to do. No mater how busy you ar e, he always insists on i ng wi th you. I had to think of a way of pr eventi ng hi m fr om foll owi ng me around al morning. 39。Jumbo must wei gh a f ew tons,39。t . Geoff rey asked her why this was so and she t ol d hi m that she did not l ike to se so many people laughing at him! Lesson64 The Channel Tunel 海峽隧道 I n l858, a French engineer , Ai me Thome de Gamond, ar rived in England with a plan for atwent y one mi le tunnel across t he Engl ish Channel. He said that i t would be possible t o buil d a pl at form in the centr e of the Channel. This plat form would serve as a por t and a railway st at ion. The tunnel would be wel vent ilated if tal chi mneys were built above sea level. I n 1860, a bet er plan was put f or war d by an Engl ishman, Wi l iam Low. He suggest ed t hat a doubl e railway t unnel shoul d be bui lt . This woul d solve the pr obl em of venti lation, f or i f a t rain ent er ed t hi s tunnel, it would draw i n fr esh ai r behi nd i t. For tyt wo year s later a t unnel was actual ly begun. If , at the time, the Brit ish had not feared invasi on, it woul d have been pl et ed. Recentl y, ther e has again been great interest i n the idea of a Channel Tunnel. If it is built , i t wi l connect Br itain t o Eur ope for the fi rst ime in history. Leson65 Jumbo versus t he poli ce 小象對(duì)警察 Last Christmas, the circus owner , Jimmy Gates, decided to take some pr esent s to a chil dr en39。s hospit al. Dr essed up as Fat her Chr istma s and acpanied by a 39。 said a pol iceman afterwards, 39。Hull o, Bert, 39。 Bert answer ed. 39。 I answered. 39。Woul d you mi nd my ing with you ?39。m going to the den