【正文】 f questions about the patients and asked whether the caller was a relative then. The caller then told him who he was.(58 words)Lesson 40The writer sat next to Mrs. Rumbold at the dinner party. He tried to make conversation but she was busy eating. He talked about the new play at ‘The Globe’and the answered his questions briefly. Then he asked if she was enjoying her dinner and she answered,‘If you ate more and talked less,we would both enjoy our dinner.’(67 words)Lesson 41The wirter’s wife was trying on a hat and he didn’t like it. He sat down and waited for they began arguing had bought a terrible tie the day before but his wife didn’t like it. He said,‘A man can never have too many ties.’ His wife used exactly the same argument and she bought the hat. It looked like a lighthouse.(67 words)Lesson 42We watched a snake charmer in a square in Old Delhi. He had a long pipe and two large baskets. He played a tune and the snake in one of the baskets rose to follow the movements of the pipe. Then the snake charmer played modern tunes but the snake continued to dance slowly. It didn’t know the difference between Indian music and jazz.(64 words)Lesson 43In 1929,the American explorer , became the first man to fly over the South Pole. He took a lot of photographs during the flight but then ran into difficulties. His plane couldn’t get over the mountains so he orded his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane then flew over the mountains and continued without further trouble.(63 words)Lesson 44Two men tried to steal ’s handbag. She was having a piic at the time. They took the bag after a struggle and ran through the trees. She ran after them and caught up with them. The men had sat down and were going through the contents of the bag. ran straight at them so they dropped the bag and ran away.(66 words)Lesson 45The local buther,Sam Benton,was taking his savings to the post office but he lost his wallet. Sam not only received half his money three months later,but received a note as note said:‘A thief,yes,but only 50 per cent a thief!’ The thief included a note every time he sent Sam more money. The last note said: ‘I am 100 per cent honest now!’(68 words)Lesson 46The plane from London arrived at Sydney airport and workers unloaded a number of wooden boxes. They contained clothing. One of the boxes was extremely heavy so a worker opened it. He found a man on top of a pile of woolen goods. The man was arrested. He had travelled in the box from London. He had to pay 3,500 pounds. An ordinary tickets costs 2,000 pounds.(65 words)Lesson 47Mr. Ian Thompson bought a public house recently but it is haunted,so he is going to sale it. There was a strange noise in the bar one night and the room was in disorder next morning. Mr. Thompson found five empty whisky bottles. He doesn’t believe that some villagers broke into the bar and had a drink. Anybody in the village doesn’t want to the pub.(68 words)Lesson 48The dentist in the story had pulled out one of the writer’s teeth and had told him to rest for a while. He asked several questions but the writer couldn’t answer them. His mouth was full of cotton wool. He suddenly discovered something wrong but he couldn’t say anything. The dentist eventually removed the cotton wool from his mouth and the writer told him he had pulled out the wrong tooth.(72 words)Lesson 49A young man in Teheran bought a real bed for the first time in his life. He slept on the roof of his house because the weather was hot. Three nights later, the bed was swept off the roof during a storm. The man was not only unhurt but still on his mattress. As the bed was in pieces, he carried his mattress indoors and after he had put it on the floor he went back to sleepLesson 50The writer wanted to go to Woodford Green but as he did not know the way, the conductor promised to tell him where to get off. When they arrived at the bus terminus, the writer asked if they were at Woodford Green. The conductor then realized that he had forgotten to put him off. The writer stayed on the bus because it was going back.Lesson 51Hugh is so fat that he has gone on a diet. He has forbidden himself all the foods he likes but he has not lostweight. When the writer visited him yesterday, he hid a large parcel under his desk. The parcel contained chocolates and sweets. Hugh said that he had to reward himself occasionally because his diet was so strict.Lesson 52The writer has been trying to get his new room in order all morning. This has proved difficult because he owns over a thousand books which cover every inch of floor space at the moment. His sister helped him to carry one of his old bookcases up the stairs a short while ago. She got a surprise when she saw the room, but she thought that the books made a pretty carpet.Lesson 53Now that firemen have put out a big forest fire in California, they have been trying to discover its cause. There was no evidence that it was started by broken glass or a cigarette end. However a fireman has just solved the mystery. He noticed the remains of a snake which had been dropped by a bird on to some electric wires. In winding itself round the wires, the snake had sent sparks to the ground and this caused the fire.Lesson 54As soon as the writer returned home from the shops she began to make some meat pies. When the telephone rang soon afterwards, her fingers were very sticky. She spent ten minutes talking to Helen Bates on the telephone. After that she looked at the mess she had made. Her fingers, the telephone and the doorknobs were covered with pastry. Just then the postman rang the doorbell. He wanted her to sign for a registered letter.Lesson 55‘The Revealer’is a new machine which is used for detecting buried gold. Using this machine, a search party recently tried to find gold in a cave near the seashore. Although they examined the cave thoroughly they only found a small gold coin which was practically