【正文】 ere m ost amused. 39。Englishm an, Wilam Low. He sugest ed t hat double r ailway t unnel should be built . This would solve t he pr oblem of vent ilation, f or if a t r ain ent er ed t his t unnel, it would dr aw in f r esh air behind it . Fort yt wo years lat er at unnel was act ualy begun. I f, at he t im e, t he Brit ish ad not f ear ed invasion, it would have been plet ed. Recently, t here has again been gr eat int er est in t he idea of a Channel Tunnel. I f it is built , it wil c onnect Brit ain t o Eur ope f or t he f ir st t ime in hist or y. Lesson65 J umbo ver sus t he police 小象對警察 Last Christm as, t he cir cus owner, Jimm y Gat es, decided t o t ake som e pr esent s t o a childr en39。J um bo m ust weigh af ew t ons, 39。 Lesson66 Sweet as honey! 像蜜一樣甜！ The Hatheld Puf fin is a m odern aer o plane, but i s designer, M r J ohn Wim penny, is f inding it dif icult t o get it of t he ground. The r eason f or t his is t hat his plane is also a bicycle. I ts pilot has t o pedal har d t o get it int o t he air . Af ter M r Wim penny had t he plane built , it was t ested t horoughly. I n 1961, it was t he f ir st man power ed air cr aft t o f ly half a m ile. While being f lown by a cham pion am at eur cyclist in 1963, t he plane cr ashed on an air field. Since t hen, Mr Wim penny has had it r ebuilt . He has had t he lengt h of t he wings increased so t hat hey now measure 93 f eet alm ost as long as t hose of a Dakota. M any people have shown i t erest in t his new and unusual spor t. But t hough air cyclists may lear n how t o f ly over shor t dist ances, and m ay, event ualy, even get acr oss t he English Channel, it is doubtf ul whet her t hey wil ever cycle acr oss t he At lant ic. Lesson67 Volcanoes 火山 Har oun Tazieff t he Polish scient ist, has pent his lif etim e st udying active volcanoes and eep caves in al par t s of t he world. I n 1948, he went o lake Kivu in t he Congo t o bserv e a new volcano which he lat er named Kit ur o. Tazief f was able t o set up his camp ver y close t o t he volcano while it was er upting violently. Though he m anaged t o t ake a num ber of brilant phot ographs, he could not st ay near t he volcano f or very long. He not iced t hat r iver of liquid r ock was ing t owards him. I t hreat ened t o sur r ound him plet ely, but Tazief f m anaged t o escape just in t im e. He wait ed until he volcano became quiet and he was able t o r et ur n t wo days lat er. This t im e, he m anaged t o clim b int o t he mout h of Kit uro so t hat he could t ake photogr aphs and m easur e t em per at ures. Tazief f has of t en r isked his lif e in t his way. He has been able t o t el us m ore about active volcanoes t han any man alive. Lesson68 Persistent 糾纏不休 I crosed t he st reet t o avoid meet ing him , but he saw m e and cam e r unni g t owards m e. I t was no use pr etending t hat I had not seen him , so I waved t o him . I never enjoy meet ing Ber t Dykes. He never has anything t o do. No m at er how busy ou ar e, he always insists on ing wit h you. I had t o t hink of a way of pr eventing him f r om f olowing m e ar ound al m or ni g. 39。 Hulo, Elizabet h,39。 No, not at al, 39。Would you m ind m y ing wit h you ?39。m going to the dentist.39。 Ther e39。J ust one m or e t hing, M r Eames. Let us uppose t hat child suddenly croses t he r oad in f r ont of you. As soon as I t ap on t he window, Iwant t he car t o be stopped imm ediately.39。 you have just kiled t hat child ! 39。s fishing, or eight hour s in a cinema seeing t he same film over and over again, is usualy as f ar as t hey get. They have al been put o sham e by a boy who, while playing t r uant, r aveled 1600 m iles. He hit ch iked t o Dover and, t owards evening, went int o a boat o f ind som ewhere t o sleep. When he woke up next m orning, he discover ed t hat he boat had, in t he m eantim e, t r aveled t o Cal is. No ne noticed t he boy as he crept of . Fr om t her e, he hit chhiked t o Paris in a lor r y. The driver gave him a f ew biscuit s and a cup of cof ee and lef t him just out side t he cit y. The nex t car t he boy stopped did not ake him int o t he cent r e of Paris as he hoped it would, but o Perpignan on t he Fr ench Spanish bor der. There he was picked up by a policem an and sent back t o England by t he local aut horit ies. He has sur ely set up a r ecord f or t he t housands of boys who dream of evading school. Lesson74 Out of t he lim elight 舞臺之外 An ancient bus t opped by a dr y r iver bed and a part y of amous act ors and act r esses got of f. Dr essed in dar k glasses and old clot hes, t hey had t aken special pr ecautions o t hat no one should r ecognize t hem. But as t hey soon discover ed, disguises can sometim es be t oo per fect . 39。t be bett er , Glor ia,39。 M eanwhile, t wo other actors, Rockwal Slinger and M erlin Gr eeves, had c ar ried t wo lar ge f ood baskets t o a shady spot under some t rees. When t hey had al m ade t hemselves f ort able, a st ranger appear ed. He looked ver y angry. 39。m sherif f her e. Do you see t hat notice ? It says No Cam ping in case you can39。 don39。 said t he sherif f wit h a sneer. 39。 SOS39。 we ar e t aking you t o t he macar oni f ields of Cal bria. Macar oni has been gr own i t his area f or over six hundr ed year s. Two of t he leading growers, Giuseppe M oldova nd Ric ar do Br abant e, t el m e t hat hey have been expect ing a splendi cr op t his year and har vesting has begun ear lier t han usual. Her e you can see t wo worker s who, between t hem, Englishm an, Wilam Low. He suggested t hat a double r ailway t unel should be built . This would solve t he pr oblem of ventilat ion, f or if a tr ain ent er ed t his t unnel, it would dr aw in f r esh air behind it . Forty t wo years later at unnel was act ualy begun. I f, at he t ime, t he Br it ish had not feared invasion, it would have been pleted. Recent ly, t her e has again been great int er est in