【正文】 Lesson73 The recordhol der 紀錄保持者 Li tl e boys who play tr uant f rom school ar e uni maginat ive. A quiet day39。 It couldn39。t we e more of t en ?39。 I 39。 Look, sherif f, 39。m Rockwal Sli nger and this is Merl in Greeves. 39。Wel, I 39。 in t he snow. For tunately, a pi lot saw the si gnal and sent a mesage by radi o to the nearest town. I t was not long befor e a helicopt er ar ived on the scene to r escue t he sur vi vor s of the plane crash. Leson76 April Fool s Day 愚人節(jié) 39。s crop bef or e the September rains. On the ri ght , you can see Mrs Br abante hersel f. She has been hel pi ng her husband f or thir ty year s now. Mrs Brabante is t al ki ng t o the manager of the local fact or y where t he crop is processed. This last scene shows you what wi l happen at the end of the harvest : the famous Cal abri an macar oni eati ng peti tion ! Signor Fr at el li , t he present champion, has won it every year since 1961. And that ends our special bulleti n for today, Thur sday, April 1st . We ar e now r et ur ni ng you to the studi o. 39。s hospital. Dressed up as Fat her Chr ist mas and acpanied by a 39。 sai d a poli ceman af ter wards, 39。Hullo, Ber t,39。Hullo, Elizabeth,39。 39。m going t o. . .39。 I li ed, 39。 Then I39。s always plent y to read in the 39。 I cont inued drivi ng and aft er some t ime, t he exami ner tapped loudly. Though the sound could be hear d cl earl y, it t ook me a long t ime t o react. I suddenl y pr essed the brake pedal hard and we were both thrown f or war d. The exami ner looked at me sadly. 39。 l esson70 Red for danger 危險的紅色 Dur ing a bull fight, a dr unk suddenly wandered into t he mi ddle of the ring. The cr owd began to shout, but the drunk was unawar e of t he danger . The bul l was busy with t he matador at he t ime, but i t suddenl y caught sight of the dr unk who was shouti ng r ude remarks and waving a red cap. Appar ent ly sensi tive to cri ticism, the bull for got al l about the m at dor and char ge d at he drunk. The crowd suddenly grew quiet. The drunk, however, semed quite sure of himself. When the bull got close to him, he cl umsil y st epped asi de t o let i t pas. The cr owd broke into cheers and the drunk bowed. By this ti me, however , t hr e men had e i nt o the ring and t hey qui ckly dragged the drunk t o safety. Even the bull semed t o feel sor ry f or him, for it looked on sympathetical ly until the drunk was out of t he way befor e once mor e t ur ning its at enti on t o the mat ador . Leson71 A f amous cl ock 一個著名的大鐘 When you visi t London, one of the fi rst hi ngs you wi l see is Big Ben, the f amous clock whi ch can be heard al over the wor ld on the . If the Houses of Parl iament had hot been bur ned down i n 1834, the gr eat cl ock woul d never have been er ect ed. Bi g Ben t akes i ts name f rom Sir Benjamin Hal who was r esponsi bl e for t he making of t he clock when the new Houses of Par liament wer e being built . I t i s not only of immense size, but is ext remel y accur at e as wel l. Of icials fr om Greenwich Observat or y have the cl ock checked twice aday. On t he B. B. C. you can hear t he clock when it is act ual y st riking because microphones ar e connected to the clock t ower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it fail ed t o gi ve t he correct ime. A painter who had been wor ki ng on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and sl owed it down ! Leson72 A car called Bluebi rd “藍鳥”汽車 The gr eat raci ng dri ver, Sir Malcol m Campbel, was t he f ir st man t o dr ive at over 300 mi les per hour . He set up a new worl d recor d in September 1935 at Bonnevi l e Salt Flats, Ut ah. Bl uebird, the car he was dr iving, had been specialy built f or him. It wa s over 30 feet in l ength and had a 2500 horse power engi ne. Although Campbel reached a speed of over 304 mil es per hour , he had great dif iculty i n controll ing the car because a t yr e burst duri ng t he f ir st run. Af ter hi s at empt, Campbel l was disappoint ed to l earn t hat hi s average speed had been 299 mil es per hour . However, a few days later, he was told t hat a mistake had been made. His average speed had been 301 mi les per hour. Si nce that ime, r acing dri vers have reached speeds of over 400 mil es an hour. Foll owi ng his f ather39。This i s a wonderf ul place f or a piic,39。 Br inksley Meer s agreed. 39。Now you gut out of her e, al of you! 39。t r ead ! 39。 don39。Oh, is it ?39。 leson75 SOS 呼救信號 When a li ght pasenger plane f lew off course some ti me ago, i t crashed in the mountains and i ts pi lot was kil ed. The onl y pa ssengers, a young woman and her t wo baby daughters, wer e unhur t. It was t he mi ddle of winter. Snow lay thick on t he ground. The woman knew that the nearest vil age was mi les away. When it gr ew dark. she turned a suitcase int o a bed and put the chi l dr en insi de i t, cover ing them with al the clothes she could f ind. Duri ng t he night, it got ter ibly col d. The woman kept as near as she could t o the chil dr en and even tri ed t o get into the case hersel f, but it was t oo smal. Ear ly , next morning she heard pl anes passing over head and wondered how she coul d send a signal . Then she had an i dea. She stamped out t he l et ters39。 said the voi ce of the t el evision announcer ,39。Cigar et te Smoking and Your Health39。作為晚輩，我們用什么方式來贍養(yǎng)老人，讓他們安享天倫之樂，感受到社會的關(guān)愛和人間的親情？這是整個社會都應(yīng)該重視的問題。據(jù)統(tǒng)計，近 60 年來，我國平均壽命比建國前增長了近 30 歲。人口學(xué)家 分析，我國未來相當(dāng)長一段時期內(nèi)，遞活動執(zhí)行方 Engl ishman, Wil iam Low. He suggested that a double rail way t unnel shoul d be built . This would solve the probl em of vent ilati on, for i f a train entered this tunnel, it woul d dr aw in fr esh air behind it. For tyt wo years later a tunnel was actual ly begun. I f, at the ti me, the Bri tish had not f eared invasion, it woul d have been pl et ed. Recentl y, there has again been great i nt er est in the idea of aChannel Tunnel. If i t i s buil t, it wil connec