【正文】 Lesson66 Sweet as honey! 像蜜一樣甜！ The Hat held Puf fin is a m oder n aer o plane, but it s designer , M r J ohn Wim penny, is f inding it dif f icult t o get it of f t he gr ound. The r eason f or t his is t hat his plane is also a bicycle. I t s pilot has t o pedal har d t o get it int o t he air . Af t er 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 m an power ed air cr af 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, M r Wim penny has had it r ebuilt . He has had t he lengt h of t he wings incr eased so t hat hey now m eas ur e 93 f eet alm ost as long as t hose of a Dakot a. M any people have shown int er est in t his new and unusual sport . But t hough air cyc list s may lear n how t o f ly over shor t dist ances, and m ay, eventualy, even get across the English Channel, it is doubt ful whet her t hey wil ever cycle acr oss the At lant ic. Lesson67 Volcanoes 火山 Har oun Tazief f t he Polish scient ist , has spent his lif e t ime st udying act ive volcanoes and deep caves in al par t s of t he wor ld. I n 1948, he went t o lake Kivu in t he Congo t o observe a new volcano which he lat er named Kit ur o. Tazieff was able t o set up his cam p very close t o t he volcano while it was er upt ing v iolent ly. Though he managed t o t ake a num ber of br ilant phot ogr aphs, he could not st ay near t he volcano f or ver y long. He not iced t hat a r iver of liquid r ock was ing t owar ds him . I t hreat ened t o sur ound him pletely, but Tazief f m anaged t o escape just in t im e. He wait ed unt il t he volcano became quiet and he was able t o r etur n t wo days lat er . This t im e, he m anaged t o clim b int o t he m outh of Kit ur o so t hat he could t ake phot ogr aphs and m easure t emperat ures. Tazief f has of ten r isked his lif e in t his way. He has been able t o t ell us m or e about act ive volcanoes t han any m an alive. Lesson68 Per si t ent 糾 纏不休 I crossed t he str eet t o avoid m eeting him , but he saw m e and came r uning t owar ds m e. I t was no use pr et ending t hat Ihad not seen him , so I waved t o him . Inever enjoy meet ing Bert Dykes. He never has anything t o do. No m at t er how busy you are, he always insist s on ing wit h you. I had t o t hink of a way of preventing him f r om f olowing m e ar ound al m or ning. 39。J um bo m ust weigh a f ew t ons,39。 we ar e t aking you t o t he m acar oni f ields of Calabr ia. M acar oni has been gr own i t his ar ea f or over six hundr ed year s. Two of t he leading gr ower s, Giuseppe M oldova nd Ric ar do Br abant e, t el m e t hat t hey have been expect ing a splendid cr op t his year and har vest ing has begun earlier t han usual. Her e you can see t wo wor kers who, between t hem, Englishm an, Wilam Low. He suggest ed t hat a double r ailway t unnel should be built . This would solve t he pr oblem of vent ilat ion, 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 . For t y two year s lat er a t unnel was actualy begun. If , at t he t ime, t he Br it ish had not f ear ed invasion, it would have been plet ed. Recently, t her e has again been gr eat int er est in t he idea of a Channel Tunnel. I f it is built , it wil connect Br it ain t o Eur ope f or t he f ir st im e in hist or y. Lesson65 Jum bo ver sus t he police 小 象對(duì)警察 Last Christ mas, t he cir cus owner , J im my Gat es, decided t o t ake some pr esents t o a childr en39。 SOS39。 said t he sher if f wit h a sneer . 39。 don39。t r ead ! 39。Now you gut out of her e, al of you! 39。 Br inksley M eer s agr eed. 39。This is a wonder f ul place f or a piic, 39。 lesson70 Red f or danger 危險(xiǎn)的紅色 Dur ing a bulf ight , a dr unk suddenly wander ed int o t he m iddle of t he r ing. The cr owd began t o shout, but t he dr unk was unawar e of t he danger. The bul was busy wit h t he m at ador at t he t im e, but it suddenly caught sight of t he dr unk who was shout ing r ude r em ar ks and waving a r ed cap. Appar ently sensit ive t o cr it icism, t he bul f or got al about t he m at ador and char ged at he dr unk. The cr owd suddenly gr ew quiet . The dr unk, however , seem ed quit e sur e of him self . When t he bul got close t o him , he clum sily st epped aside t o let it pass. The cr owd br oke int o cheers and t he dr unk bowed. By t his t im e, however, t hree m en had e int o t he r ing and t hey quickly dr agged t he dr unk t o saf et y. Even t he bul seem ed t o f eel sor r y f or him , f or it looked on sym pat heticaly unt il t he dr unk was out of t he way bef or e once m or e t ur ni g it s at t ent ion t o t he m at ador . Lesson71 A f am ous clock 一個(gè)著 名的大鐘 When you visit London, one of t he fir st t hings you wil see is Big Ben, t he f am ous clock which can be hear d al over t he wor ld on t he B. B. C. If t he Houses of Parliam ent had hot been bur ned down in 1834, t he gr eat clock would never have been er ect ed. Big Ben t akes it s nam e f r om Sir Benjam in Hal who was r esponsible f or t he m aking of t he clock when t he new Houses of Parliam ent wer e being built . I t is not only of im m ense size, but is ext rem ely accur at e as well. Of f icials f r om Gr eenwich Obser vat ory have t he clock checked t wice a day. On t he B. B. C. you can hear t he clock when it is act ualy st riking because micr ophones ar e connec t ed t o t he clock t ower . Big Ben has r ar ely gone wr ong. Once, however, it f ailed t o give t he cor rect im e. A paint er who had been wor king on t he t ower hung a pot of paint on one of t he hands and slowed it down ! Lesson72 A car called Bluebir d “ 藍(lán)鳥”汽車 The gr eat r acing dr iver , Sir M alcolm Campbell, was t he f ir st m an t o dr ive at over 300 miles per hour . He set up