【正文】 ave not yet decided how t he woman died. They f ear ed t hat he mummy would fal to pieces when t he y cut it open, but f or tunately t hi s has not happened. The mummy succesfull y survived the oper ation. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter reading an ar ticle ent it led 39。父輩養(yǎng)育了我們，創(chuàng)造了財(cái)富，操勞了一生，如今他們步入了老年， 既 需要生活的照料，更需要身心 的 康寧 。這源于改革開放以來(lái)人口 出生 率的下降、經(jīng)濟(jì)條件的提高和健康條件的改善等因素。為社會(huì)服務(wù) 幾十年 ，到老年被社會(huì)邊緣化， 深 居家中、缺乏交流群體，老 后生活無(wú)樂(lè)，豈不心寒？據(jù)統(tǒng)計(jì)，全國(guó)有 1000萬(wàn) 70歲以上高齡老人需要照顧。而目前家庭撫養(yǎng)晚輩與贍養(yǎng)老人的狀況，卻存在著極大的 反差 ： 6 個(gè)大人圍著一個(gè)小孩轉(zhuǎn)，贍養(yǎng)老 人 卻力不從心。 人生最需要關(guān)愛的 時(shí)期是 兩頭 ： 一是小 時(shí)候 ，二是 到老年 。 I l it a ci garet e to cal m my ner ves. I smoked wi th concentr at ion and pleasur 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 someone giving up smoking: a bad t emper 1 葉縣康樂(lè)苑老年公寓和老年活動(dòng)中心項(xiàng)目引 言 “最美不過(guò)夕陽(yáng)紅，溫馨又從容。 we are t aking you t o the macar oni fi el ds of Cal abri a. Macaroni has been grown in t hi s ar ea f or over si x hundr ed year s. Two of the leadi ng growers, Gi useppe Moldova and Ricardo Brabant e, tel me that hey have been expecti ng a spl endid crop this year and har vest ing has begun earl ier t han usual . Here you can see two workers who, between them, have j ust f inished cutt ing three cart l oads of gol den br own macar oni st al ks. The whol e vi lage has been wor ki ng day and ni ght gatheri ng and t hr eshing this year39。 SOS39。 sai d the sher if f wi th a sneer . 39。t be t oo hard on us. I39。 39。 he shout ed: 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm f ans! Why don39。 said Glori a Gleam. 39。s f ootsteps many years later, Sir Malcol m39。Mr Eames, 39。wait ing room !39。l l e with you, 39。but I39。 39。 No, not at al l,39。 Ber t answered. 39。 I said. 39。so it was f or tunate t hat we di dn39。guard of honour39。 Lesson77 A succesful operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died i n 800 . has just had an oper at ion. The mummy is t hat of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Templ e of Thebes. As t here were str ange mar ks on the Xr ay plates taken of t he mummy, doct or s have been t rying to f ind out whether t he wom an died of a r ar e di sease. The only way to do this was to operate. The operati on, whi ch l asted for over f our hours, pr oved t o be very dif ficult because of the hard r esin which cover ed the skin. The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a l aboratory. They al so f ound somet hi ng which the Xray of the god Duamutef . This god which has the head of a cow was nor mal ly placed inside a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how t he woman died. They f ear ed t hat he mummy would fal to pieces when t he y cut it open, but f or tunately t hi s has not happened. The mummy succesfull y survived the oper ation. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter reading an ar ticle ent it led 39。To end our special news bulleti n, 39。m Bri nksley Mers, and my other name i s Gl or ia Gl eam. Now you get out of her e fast ! 39。 39。sai d Rockwal ,39。m sheri f her e. Do you se t hat noti ce ? I t says No Camping i n case you can39。 Meanwhile, two other act or s, Rockwal l Sli nger and Merli n Greeves, had car ried two l ar ge f ood basket s t o a shady spot under some t rees. When they had al l m ade themsel ves f or tabl e, a stranger appeared. He looked ver y angry. 39。t be bet ter, Glori a,39。s f ishi ng, or eight hour s in a ci nema seing the same fi lm over and over again, is usual ly as f ar as they get. They have al l been put t o shame by a boy who, whil e playing tr uant, travel led 1600 miles. He hitch hiked to Dover and, t owards eveni ng, went into a boat to f ind somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next mor ni ng, he discover ed t hat the boat had, i n the meant ime, t ravel led t o Cal ai s. No one not iced t he boy as he cr ept of f. From there, he hitchhiked t o Par is in a lor ry. The dr iver gave him a f ew bi scuits and a cup of cof fee and left him just out side the city. The next car the boy st opped did not take him i nto the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Per pi gnan on t he Fr ench Spani sh bor der . Ther e he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by the local aut hori ti es. He has sur ely set up a r ecord for the thousands of boys who dr eam of evadi ng school . Lesson74 Out of the lim el ight 舞臺(tái)之外 An ancient bus stopped by a dr y river bed and a par ty of f amous actors and actresses got of f. Dresed i n dar k gl asses and old clothes, t hey had t aken special pr ecauti ons so that no one shoul d recogni ze t hem. But as t hey soon di scovered, disguis es can somet imes be t oo per fect. 39。 you have j ust kil led that chi ld ! 39。Just one more thing, Mr Eames. Let us suppose that a chi ld suddenly crosses the road i n front of you. As oon as I tap on t he window, I want the car to be st opped i mmediately.39。 Ther e39。 39。 he asked, bef ore I had fi ni shed speaking. ‘Not at al ,39。 I 39。 I was j ust wonder ing how t o spend t he morning unti l I saw you. You39。 I sai d. 39。so it was fortunat e that we didn39。guard of honour 39。s hospit al . Dr essed up as Fat her Chr istmas and acpani ed by a 39。 said a pol iceman afterwards, 39。Hul lo, Bert ,39。 Bert answer ed. 39。 I answered. 39。Would you mi nd my ing with you ?39。m going to t he denti st .39。 he answered. 39。 lesson69 But not murder! 并非謀殺！ I was being tested for a driving li cence f or the thir d ti me. I had been asked t o dr ive in heavy t raf ic and had done so successful 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 pased, I was almost beginning to enj oy my t est. The exami ner must have been pleased wi th my perfor mance, for he smiled and sai d, 39。 he said, in a mour nf ul voice,39。s son, Donal d, also set up a world r ecord. Li ke his f at her, he was driving a car cal led Bl uebir d.