【正文】 capit al and t he whole area wi l be caled 39。 No,39。 A new play is i ng t o The Globe soon, 39。 No,39。 No,39。 No,39。 if you ate more and talked l ess, we would both enj oy our di nner ! 39。You needn39。t buy things we don39。t have sai d that ,39。 I f ind it beaut if ul ,39。 may reveal somet hi ng of value fair ly soon. Leson56 Faster than sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a r ace is held f or old cars. A lot of cars ent er ed f or t hi s race l ast year and t here was a gr eat deal of exci tement just bef or e it began. One of the most handsome car s was a Rolls Royce Sil ver Ghost . The most unusual car was a Benz whi ch had only t hr e wheels. Bui lt in 1885, i t was the ol dest car t aking par t. After a gr eat many loud explosi ons, the r ace began. Many of t he cars br oke down on t he course and some dri ver s pent mor e time under thei r cars than in them ! A few cars, however , pl et ed t he r ace. The winni ng car r eached a speed of f orty mi les an hour much fast er than any of i ts ri vals. It sped downhi l at the end of the race and i ts driver had a lot of tr ouble tr yi ng to st op i t. The r ace gave everyone agr eat deal of pl easur e. It was very dif ferent f rom modern car aces but no l ess exci ting. Lesson57 Can I help you, madam? 你要買什么，夫人？ A woman in blue jeans st ood at he wi ndow of an expensive shop. Though she hesit at ed f or a moment , she f inal ly went in and as ked to see a dr ess that was i n the window. The asist ant who served her did not l ike the way she was dr essed. Gl ancing at her scornfull y, he told her that he dr ess was sold. The woman walked out of the shop angri ly and deci ded to puni sh the asistant next da y. She r et ur ned t o the shop t he f ol lowing morning dr essed in a f ur coat, wit h a handbag in one hand and a l ong umbr el la i n the ot her. Aft er seki ng out t he r ude asistant she asked f or t he same dr ess. Not r eali zing who she was, the assi stant was eager to se rve her this ti me with great dif fi cult y, he cli mbed i nt o the shop wi ndow to get he dress. As soon as she saw i t, the woman said s many ties. 39。dance39。but t hey di d not st eal anyt hi ng. 39。 her mother a fr e dress once a week ! leson33 Out of the darkness 沖出黑暗 Nearly a week pased before t he gir l was able t o explain what had happened to her . One af ternoon she set out f rom t he coast i n a smal boat and was caught in a storm. Towards eveni ng, the boat str uck a rock and the gi rl jumped i nt o the sea. Then she swam to the shore aft er spendi ng t he whol e ni ght in t he water. Dur ing that ime she covered a di stance of ei ght miles. Early next morning, she saw a light ahead. She knew she was near the shore because the light was high up on the cl if fs. On ar iving at the shore, the gi rl st ruggled up the cl if t owards the li ght she had seen. That was al she remembered. When she woke up a day later, she f ound hersel f in hospi tal. Les on34 Quick work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been wor ried al l the wek. Last Tuesday he r ecei ved a let er fr om t he l ocal poli ce. I n the let er he was asked t o cal at t he stati on. Ted wonder ed why he was wanted by t he poli ce, but he went t o t he stati on yester day and now he i s not wor ied any more. At t he stati on, he was t ol d by a sm il ing poli ceman that his bi cycle had been f ound. Five days ago, t he pol iceman told him, t he bicycle was pi cked up i n a sm al l vi l age four hundred m il es away. It is now being sent t o hi s hom e by t rai 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 t o be f ound. I t was st ol en t went y year s ago when Ted was a boy of f if teen ! Lesson35 Stop t hi ef! 捉賊！ Rov Tr ent on used to dri ve a t axi. A short whil e ago, however, he became a bus dri ver and he was not r egr et ed i t. He is fi ndi ng his new wor k far m or e exci ti ng. When he was dri vi ng along Catf or d Str et r ecentl y, he saw t wo thieves rush out of a shop and r un t owards a wait ing car. One of t hem was car yi ng a bag f ul l of money. Roy act ed qui ckl y and dr ove t he bus str ai ght at t he t hi eves. The one wi th the money got such a fr ight that he dropped the bag. As the thieves were tr ying to get away in t heir car , Roy drove his bus i nto the back of i t. While t he bat tered car was moving away, Roy stopped his bus and t el ephoned the poli ce. The thieves39。s school fr iends wil be wai ting f or her on the English coast . Among them wil be Erna39。Ol ympic Cit y39。 the pat ient answer ed,39。 I said. 39。 she answer ed. 39。 she answer ed. 39。 she answered. I n despair , I asked her whet her she was enjoyi ng her dinner . 39。 leson41 Do you cal l t hat a hat ? 你把那個叫帽子嗎？ 39。t be so rude about it, 39。t need,39。 my wi fe answered. 39。 I sai d. 39。 And a woman can39。 slowly. It obviously coul d not tel the di f er ence between I ndian musi c and jaz! Leson43 Over t he South Pole 飛越南極 In 1929, three year s af ter hi s f li ght over t he Nort h Pol e, the Amer ican expl or er , R. E. Byr d, succesfull y fl ew over the Sout h Pole f or the f irst time. Though, at fi rst , Byr d and hi s men were abl e to t ake a gr eat many photographs of t he mount ai ns t hat lay below, t hey soon ran into ser ious t roubl e. At one poi nt , i t semed cert ai n that their pl ane would cr ash. I t coul d onl y get over t he mount ai ns if i t r ose to 10,000 f et. Byr d at once order ed his men to t hr ow out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then able t o rise and it clear ed t he mount ai ns by 400 f et. Byr d now knew that he would be abl e t o reach the South Pole which was 300 miles away, f or there were no mor e mountains in sight . The ai rcraft was able to f ly over the endles white plains without dif ficulty. Lesson44 Through the forest 穿過森林 Mrs Anne Sterl ing di d not think of t he r isk she was t aking when sh