【正文】 g, ar e you ?39。m going to.. .39。 I l ied, 39。 Then I 39。s al ways pl enty t o read i n the 39。 I conti nued dr iving and after some ti me, the examiner t apped loudl y. Though the sound could be heard clear ly, it took me a l ong ti me to r eact . I suddenly presed the br ake pedal har d and we wer e bot h thrown forward. The examiner l ooked at me sadl y. 39。 leson70 Red f or danger 危險(xiǎn)的紅色 Duri ng a bul lf ight , a drunk suddenly wander ed i nt o the middle of t he r ing. The crowd began to shout, but the dr unk was unaware of the danger. The bull was busy wit h the mat ador at the time, but it suddenly caught si ght of t he drunk who was shout ing rude r emarks and wavi ng a r ed cap. Apparently sensit ve t o cr it ci sm, the bul l f or got a l about the matador and charged at the dr unk. The cr owd suddenl y gr ew quiet. The dr unk, however , seemed quit e sure of hi mself . When the bul l got clos。 he sai d, in a mournful voice,39。 lesson69 But not murder! 并非謀殺！ I was being test ed f or a driving l icence f or t he thi rd ti me. I had been asked t o dr ive in heavy traf ic and had done so successf ul ly. Af ter havi ng been i nstr ucted to dri ve out of town, I began t o acqui re confi dence. Sure t hat I had passed, I was almost beginning to enj oy my t est. The exami ner must have been pl eased wit h my perf ormance, f or he smi led and said, 39。 he answered. 39。m going to t he denti st .39。Would you mi nd my ing with you ?39。 I answered. 39。 Bert answer ed. 39。Hul lo, Bert ,39。 said a policeman aft er war ds, 39。s hospit al. Dr essed up as Fat her Chr istmas and acpanied by a 39。 t o peopl e on t heir way to work. This wil l relieve pr essure on the tr ai ns t o some extent. Meanwhi le, a number of uni ver sit y st udent s have volunteer ed t o dr ive buses while t he str ike l asts. Al l the young men ar e exper t dr iver s, but bef or e they dri ve any of the buses, they wi l have t o pass a special t est. The students are goi ng t o take t he t est in two days39。 answer ed Cr awl ey,39。 he shouted, 39。 which have at times been si ghted are si mply st range f ish. Ocasional ly, unusual cr eatur es ar e washed to t he shor e, but they ar e rarely caught out at sea. Some ti me ago, however , a peculi ar fi sh was caught near Madagascar. A smal l f ishi ngboat was car ied miles out to sea by the powerf ul fi sh as it pull ed on the li ne. Reali zi ng t hat this was no ordinar y fi sh, t he f isherman made ever y ef fort not to damage it in any way. When it was eventual ly brought to shore, it was f ound to be over t hi rteen feet long. It had a head l ike a horse, big blue eyes, shining si lver ski n, and a bri ght red tail , The fish, which has since been sent t o a museum where i t i s being examined by a scientist, is cal led an oarfi sh. Such cr eatures have rarely been seen al ive by man as t hey li ve at a dept h of six hundred feet . Leson83 Aft er t he elect ions 大選之后 The former Prime Minister , Mr Wentwor th Lane, was defeated i n the recent elections. He is now retir ing fr om poli ti cal if e and has gone abr oad. My f ri end, Cr awley, has always been a f anatical opponent of Mr Lane39。 I lit a cigar et te to calm my nerves. I smoked with concent ration and pl easur e as I was ure that hi s would be my last cigar et te. For a whole week I did not smoke at al and dur ing this ti me, my wi fe suf fered teri bl y. I had al the usual symptoms of som eone giving up smoking: a bad t emper and an enor mous appet ite. My fr iends kept on off er ing me ci garet es and cigars. They made no ef or t to hide thei r amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweet s f rom my pocket. After seven days of t hi s I went t o a part y. Ever ybody around me was smoki ng and I felt extr emely unfor tabl e. When my old f ri end Bri an urged me to acept a ci garet e, it was more t han I could bear. I took one gui lti ly, l it it and smoked with sat isfact ion. My wi fe was delighted that things had returned to nor mal once more. Anyway, as Bri an pointed out, it is t he easiest thi ng i n the wor ld to give up smoking. He hi mself has done i t l ot s of ti mes! Lesson79 By air 乘飛機(jī) I used to tr avel by air a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My parent s, used to l ive i n South Ameri ca and I used to f ly t here f rom Europe i n the holi days. An ai rhostess would take char ge of me and I never had an unpl easant 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 slowly 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 pl anted on the pl ane. Af ter we had landed, the pl ane was ear ched t hor oughl y. For tunately, nothing was found and f ive hours later we wer e able to t ake off again. Leson80 The Crystal Palace 水晶宮 Perhaps the most extr aordinary bui lding of t he nieenth centur y was the Cryst al Pal ace, which was built in Hyde Park f or t he Gr eat Exhibiti on of 1851. The Cryst al Pal ace was dif ferent fr om al ot her buil di ngs in t he worl d, f or it was made of i ron and glas. I t was one of the bi ggest buil di ngs of al ti me and a l ot of people f rom many countr ies came to se it . A gr eat many goods wer e sent to t he exhi bi tion f rom var ious parts of the wor ld. Ther e was also a gr eat deal of machiner y on displ ay. The most wonderf ul piece of machi ner y on show was Nasmyth39。 we ar e taki ng you to t he macaroni f ields of Calabr ia. Macar oni has been gr own in this area for over si