【正文】 l right ? 我是否痊愈？ Whi le John Gil bert was i n hospi tal, he asked hi s doct or t o tel hi m whet her hi s operation had been successf ul , but t he doct or refused t o do so. The following day, the pati ent asked for abedsi de t el ephone. When he was al one, he telephoned the hospi tal exchange and asked f or Doctor Mil ingt on. When t he doctor answer ed t he phone, Mr Gil ber t sai d he was inquir ing about a cer tain pat ient , a Mr John Gi lber t. He asked if Mr Gil bert 39。 I am Mr John Gilbert. 39。 No, 39。They wi l also be bui lding new r oads and a special rail wayl ine. The Games wi l be held just outsi de t he capi tal and the whole area wil be cal ed 39。s father wil l set out wi th her in a smal l boat . Mr Hart has t rained his daught er f or year s. Tomorr ow he wil l be watchi ng her anxi ously as she swims t he l ong dist ance to England. Erna intends to t ake short rests every two hour s. She wi l have somet hing to drink but she wi l not eat any soli d food. Most of Er na39。 gave39。. This wonderf ul plane can car y seven passengers. The m ost surpri si ng t hi ng about it, however , i s that it can l and anywher e: on snow, wat er , or even on a pl oughed fi el d. Captain Fawcet39。 si gns out si de his gat e, but these have not had any ef ect. Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gate. It is one of the ugli es t faces I have ever seen. I asked him what i t was and he told me that i t was Medusa, the Gor gon. Jasper hopes that she wil l turn motori st t o st one. But none of them has been turned t o st one yet ! Leson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 39。but isn39。 She l ooked at it cr it cal y for a moment .39。m hangi ng t hi s pi ctur e on t he wal, 39。 anything. They are just pret y pat er ns. We li ke them in t he same way that we l ike pr et ty cur tain materi al. I think that young chi ldren of te n appreci at e moder n pictur es bet ter t han anyone else. They not ice mor e. My sister i s only seven, but she always tel s me whether my pictures ar e good or not. She came int o my room yester day. 39。t under st and them ! Do they speak Engli sh ? leson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an art st udent and I pai nt a lot of pictures. Many people pr et nd that they under st and modern art . They always t el l you what a pi ct ur e is 39。 I said. Then he spoke sl owl y, but I could not understand him. My t eacher never spoke Engl ish l ike that ! The por ter and I looked at each ot her and smi led. Then he said som ethi ng and I understood i t. 39。t have too many hats, 39。A man can never have t oo i nt o the cave hopi ng t o fi nd buried tr easur e. The l eader of t he party was examining the soil near the entr ance t o the cave when the machine showed that here was gold under the gr ound. Very excit ed, the part y dug a hol e two f et deep. They finaly f ound a smal gol d coin which was almost wort hl ess. The part y then sear ched the whol e cave t horoughl y but di d not find anything except an empty t in tr unk. I n spit e of t hi s, many people are confi dent t hat 39。 I need not r emind you of t hat ter ible ti e you bought yesterday.39。 I remarked suddenly. I regr et ted sayi ng i t almost at once. 39。 my wif e answered as he looked at her self in t he mi ror . I sat down on one of t hose modern chair s with hole s i n it and waited. We had been in the hat shop for half an hour and my wif e was st il i n front of the mir ror. 39。Do you cal that a hat ?39。 Young man,39。 Wi l you be st aying in Engl and?39。Wil l you be spendi ng your hol idays abr oad this year ?39。 I said. 39。 the pati ent answered,39。Ol ympic Cit y39。s school fri ends wil be wait ing for her on t he English coast . Among them wil be Er na39。 her mot her a f r ee dr ess once a week ! leson33 Out of the darkness 沖出黑暗 Nearly a week pased before t he gir l was able t o explain what had happened to her . One af ternoon she set out f rom t he coast i n a smal boat and was caught in a storm. Towards eveni ng, the boat str uck a rock and the girl jumped i nt o the sea. Then she swam to t he shore aft er spendi ng t he whole ni ght in t he water. Dur ing that ime she covered a di st ance of ei ght mil es. Ea rl y next morning, she saw ali ght ahead. She knew she was near the shore because the light was high up on the clif fs. On ar iving at t he shore, the gi rl st ruggl ed up the cl if f t owards the li ght she had sen. That was al she remembered. When she woke up a day later, she f ound hersel f in hospi tal. Lesson34 Quick work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been wor ri ed al the wek. Last Tuesday he r eceived a l et ter fr om the local poli ce. In the let er he was asked to cal at he stati on. Ted wondered why he was want ed by the poli ce, but he went t o the stati on yest er day and now he i s not wor ri ed any more. At he stati on, he was told by a smil ing pol iceman that his bicycle had been f ound. Five days ago, the pol iceman told him, t he bicycle was pi cked up i n a smal vi l age four hundred mil es away. It is now being sent t o his home by tr ain. Ted was most surpri sed when he hear d the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bi cycl e to be found. I t was st olen t wenty year s ago when Ted was aboy of fi teen ! Lesson35 Stop t hi ef ! 捉賊！ Rov Tr ent on used to dri ve a t axi. A shor t whil e ago, however , he became a bus dr iver and he was not regr et ted it. He is f indi ng his new wor k far mor e excit ng. When he was dri vi ng along Cat ford Str et re cent ly, he saw two thieves rush out of a shop and r un t owards a wai ting car . One of t hem was car yi ng a bag full of money. Roy act ed quickl y and drove t he bus str ai ght at the thieves. The one wit h the money got such a fri ght that he dr opped t he bag. As the thieves wer e tr yi ng t o get awa y in t heir car , Roy drove his bus i nt o the back