【正文】 . I had al the usual symptom s of someone giving up smoki ng: a bad t em per and an enor mous appet ite. My fr iends kept on of feri ng me ci gar et tes and cigars. They made no ef or t to hi de their amusement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweets f r om my pocket. Af ter seven days of t his I went to a par ty. Everybody ar ound me was sm oki ng and I f el t ext remely unf ort abl e. When my old fr iend Br ian ur ged m e to accept a ci gar et te, it was m or e t han I could bear. I t ook one gui lti ly, l it it and smoked wit h sat isf acti on. My wi fe was del ighted t hat t hi ngs had r etur ned t o norm al once more. Anyway, as Br ian poi nt ed out , it i s the easi est thi ng in the wor ld t o give up smoking. He hi msel f has done it l ots of ti mes! Lesson79 By ai r 乘飛機(jī) I used t o tr avel by ai r a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ents, used to li ve in South Ameri ca and I used to fl y ther e fr om Eur ope in t he hol idays. An ai rhostess would t ake charge of me and I never had an unpleasant exper ience. I am used to t ravel ing by ai r and only on one occasi on have I ever felt f ri ghtened. Af ter taking of f, we were f lyi ng low over the ci ty and slowl y gaining height , when t he plane suddenly t urned r ound and f lew back t o the air port . Whil e we wer e wait ing t o l and, an air hostes t old us t o keep cal m and t o get of f the plane quietl y as soon as i t had t ouched down. Ever ybody on board was worr ied and we wer e cur i ous t o f ind out what had happened. Lat er we learnt that there was a ver y i mport ant person on boar d. The pol ice had been t old t hat a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Af t er we had landed, the pl ane was sear ched thoroughly. For tunately, nothi ng was found and fi ve hour s lat er we were able to t ake of f agai n. Lesson80 The Cryst al Palace 水晶宮 Per haps t he most extr aordinar y buildi ng of the nieenth centur y was the Cr yst al Pal ace, which was buil t in Hyde Par k for t he Great Exhi bit ion of 1851. The Cr yst al Pal ace was di f er ent f rom al other buil di ngs in t he worl d, f or it was made of ir on and glass. I t was one of t he bi ggest buildi ngs of al t im e and a lot of people fr om many countr ies cam e to see it . A gr eat many goods we re sent t o t he exhibi ti on fr om var ious par ts of t he worl d. There was al so a great deal of machi ner y on display. The most wonderf ul piece of machi ner y on show was Nasmyth39。 we ar e taking you t o t he macar oni f ields of Calabri a. Macar oni has been gr own i n thi s ar ea for over si x hundr ed year s. Two of the leading gr ower s, Gi useppe Moldova and Ri cardo Br abante, tel l me that they have been expect ing a splendid cr op thi s year and har vest ing has begun earl ier than usual . Her e you can see t wo wor ker s who, bet ween them, have j ust f ini shed cutt ing t hr ee car t loads of gol den br own m acaroni stalks. The whol e vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hr eshi ng thi s year39。 SOS39。 sai d the sher i f wi th a sneer. 39。t be t oo har d on us. I39。 39。 he shout ed: 39。No newspaper m en, no f il m f ans! Why don39。 said Glor ia Gl eam . 39。s f oot st eps m any years l ater, Si r Malcolm 39。f ree r ides39。 I know, 39。 I tol d you yest er day and the day bef ore yesterday,39。monster s39。Ci gar et e Smoking and Your Health39。 said t he voi ce of the t el evi si on announcer ,39。 lesson75 SOS 呼救信號(hào) When a li ght passenger pl ane f lew off cour se som e ti me ago, i t cr ashed i n the m ount ai ns and it s pi lot was kil led. The onl y pa senger s, a young woman and her two baby daught er s, wer e unhur t. I t was the mi ddle of wi nt er. Snow l ay thick on t he ground. The wom an knew that the near est vi lage was miles away. When it gr ew dark. she turned a suit case int o a bed and put t he chi ldr en inside i t, cover ing t hem wi th al t he clothes she could fi nd. Dur ing t he night, it got ter ri bly cold. The woman kept as ne ar as she coul d t o the chil dren and even tr ied t o get i nto t he case herself , but it was t oo smal l. Ear ly , next mor ni ng she hear d planes passi ng overhead and wonder ed how she coul d send a si gnal. Then she had an idea. She stamped out the let ters39。 Oh, i s it ?39。 don39。t r ead ! 39。Now you gut out of her e, al l of you! 39。 Br inksley Mer s agr eed. 39。Thi s is a wonder ful place for a pi i c, 39。t ol d t hat a mi st ake had been made. His average speed had been 301 m il es per hour . Since that ti me, racing dr ivers have reache d speeds of over 400 m il es an hour. Foll owing hi s father 39。s fi shi ng, or eight hour s in a ci nem a seing the sam e fi lm over and over again, i s usual y as far as they get. They have al been put t o sham e by a boy who, whil e playing t ruant, tr avel led 1600 mi les. He hitch hiked t o Dover and, towards evening, went i nt o a boat to f ind somewhere t o sleep. When he woke up next mor ning, he di scovered t hat t he boat had, i n the meanti me, tr avel ed to Calais. No one noti ced t he boy as he cr ept of f. From ther e, he hit ch hiked t o Par i s in a l orr y. The dr iver gave hi m a few bi scui ts and a cup of cof fee and l ef t him just out si de the cit y. The next car t he boy st opped di d not t ake hi m i nto t he cent re of Pari s as he hoped i t woul d, but to Per pignan on the Fr ench Spanish border . Ther e he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to Engl and by the local aut hor it ies. He has sur el y set up a r ecor d f or t he thousands of boys who dream of evadi ng school. Leson74 Out of the l im el ight 舞臺(tái)之外 An anci ent bus stopped by a dry ri ver bed and a par ty of famous act ors and actr esses got off . Dressed in dark gl ases and ol d clot hes, they had taken special precaut ions so that no one should r ecognize t hem . But as t hey soon discover ed, disguises can someti mes