【正文】 ghly but did not f ind anything except an empty ti n tr unk. I n spite of t his, many people ar e conf i dent that 39。 I need not r emind you of t hat ter ri ble t ie you bought yest erday.39。 I r emarked suddenly. I regr et ted sayi ng it al most at once. 39。 m y wif e answer ed as she l ooked at her sel f in the mi r or. I sat down on one of t hose modern chair s wi th holes i n it and wai ted. We had been in t he hat shop for half an hour and m y wi fe was sti l i n f ront of t he mi r or. 39。Do you cal that a hat ?39。 Young man,39。 Wil l you be st ayi ng in England?39。Wil l you be spending your hol idays abr oad this year ?39。 I sai d. 39。 t he pat ient answer ed, 39。Ol ympi c Cit y39。s school fr iends wil l be wait ng f or her on the Engl ish coast. Am ong them wi l be Er na39。 her mother a f ree dress once a week ! l eson33 Out of the darkness 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed bef ore t he gir l was abl e to explain what had happened to her . One aft er noon she set out f rom the coast in a smal boat and was caught in a st orm. Towar ds evening, the boat st ruck a r ock and t he gir l jumped int o the sea. Then she swam t o the shore af ter spending t he whole ni ght i n the water . Duri ng that ti me she covered a di st ance of eight mi les. Ear ly next morni ng, she saw a li ght ahead. She knew she was near the shore because t he li ght was high up on the cli f s. On ar iving at t he shore, the gi rl str uggl ed up the cl if f t owards t he li ght she had seen. That was al she remembered. When she woke up a day later , she f ound her sel f in hospi tal. Lesson34 Qui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been wor ri ed al l the week. Last Tuesday he received a let ter fr om t he local pol ice. I n t he let er he was asked to cal at the stat ion. Ted wondered why he was want ed by the poli ce, but he went t o t he st at ion yesterday and now he i s not wor r ied any mor e. At t he st at ion, he was tol d by a smi ling pol iceman that his bicycle had been found. Fi ve days ago, the poli ceman t old hi m, the bi cycle was pi cked up i n a smal vi l age f our hundred m il es away. It i s now being sent t o his home by tr ai n. Te d was most surpri sed when he heard the news. He was amused t oo, because he never expected t he bicycl e to be found. I t was st olen t went y year s ago when Ted was a boy of f i ft een ! Lesson35 St op t hi ef ! 捉賊！ Rov Trenton used to dr i ve a t axi . A short whil e ago, however, he becam e a bus dr i ver and he was not r egr et ed it. He is f i ndi ng hi s new wor k f ar m or e exci ti ng. When he was dr i vi ng al ong Catf ord St r et re cent l y, he saw t wo t hi eves r ush out of a shop and r un t owar ds a wait ng car. One of t hem was car r yi ng a bag full of m oney. Roy act ed qui ckl y and dr ove t he bus str aight at t he t hi eves. The one wi t h t he m oney got such a f ri ght t hat he dr opped t he bag. As t he t hieves wer e t ryi ng to get away in t hei r car , Roy dr ove hi s bus i nt o t he back of it . Whi le t he bat ter ed car was m ovi ng away, Roy stopped hi s bus and t elephoned t he pol i ce. The thi eves39。s f i rst passenger was a doct or who fl ew f rom Bir mi ngham to a lonel y vil lage i n the Welsh mountains. Since then, Capt ai n Fawcet t has f lown passengers t o many unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lats and on another occasion, he l anded i n a deser ted car par k. Capt ai n Fawc et t has j ust r ef used a st range request f rom a busi nessman. The man want ed to f ly to Rockal , a lonel y i sl and in t he Atl ant ic Ocean, but Captai n Fawcet t di d not take him because t he tr ip was too danger ous. Leson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayle i s a smal r iver that cut s acr oss t he par k near my home. I like si ti ng by t he Wayle on f ine af ternoons. I t was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on t he ri ver bank as usual. Some chil dren wer e playing games on the bank and there were some peopl e r owi ng on t he ri ver . Suddenly, one of t he chi ldr en kicked a bal l ver y hard and i t went t owar ds a pasing boat. Some people on t he bank cal ed out t o t he man in the boat , but he di d not hear them. The bal l st ruck him so hard t hat he nearl y f el l into the water . I turne d t o look at the chi l dr en, but there weren39。t axi 39。t it upsi de down ?39。 It 39。 I answer ed. 39。 What ar e you doi ng ?39。about 39。You39。but ver y clearl y as wel . The por ter, however , coul d not understand me。 I sai d. Then he spoke sl owly, but I could not under stand him. My teacher never spoke Engl ish l ike t hat ! The por ter and I looked at each other and smi led. Then he said somet hi ng and I under st ood it . 39。t understand them ! Do t hey speak Engl ish ? l esson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評論家 I am an ar t st udent and I paint a l ot of pi ct ures. Many people pr etend that they under stand modern ar t. They always tel l you what a pict ure i s 39。 anyt hi ng. They ar e just pr et y pat ter ns. We li ke them i n t he same way that we li ke pret y curt ai n mat er ial . I t hink t hat young chi ldr en of ten appreciate moder n pict ur es bet ter t han anyone el se. They not ice m or e. My sist er i s onl y seven, but she always tel ls me whet her m y pi ct ures are good or not. She cam e int o my r oom yesterday. 39。m hangi ng this pi ct ure on the wal ,39。 She l ooked at it cr it ical ly for a mom ent .39。but isn39。 signs outside his gat e, but these have not had any ef fect. Now he has put an ugl y stone head over the gate. I t i s one of the ugli est faces I have ever seen. I asked hi m what i t was and he t old me tha t it was Medusa, t he Gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wi l tur n mot or i st s to st one. But none of them has been tur ned to stone yet! Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new servi ce. The 39。. Thi s wonde