【正文】 f ree r ides39。 I tol d you yest er day and the day bef ore yesterday,39。Ci gar et e Smoking and Your Health39。 lesson75 SOS 呼救信號 When a li ght passenger pl ane f lew off cour se som e ti me ago, i t cr ashed i n the m ount ai ns and it s pi lot was kil led. The onl y pa senger s, a young woman and her two baby daught er s, wer e unhur t. I t was the mi ddle of wi nt er. Snow l ay thick on t he ground. The wom an knew that the near est vi lage was miles away. When it gr ew dark. she turned a suit case int o a bed and put t he chi ldr en inside i t, cover ing t hem wi th al t he clothes she could fi nd. Dur ing t he night, it got ter ri bly cold. The woman kept as near as she coul d t o the chil dren and even tr ied t o get i nto t he case herself , but it was t oo smal l. Ear ly , next mor ni ng she hear d planes passi ng overhead and wonder ed how she coul d send a si gnal. Then she had an idea. She stamped out the let ters39。 don39。Now you gut out of her e, al l of you! 39。Thi s is a wonder ful place for a pi i c, 39。 Lesson84 O n strike 罷工 Busm en have deci ded to go on st ri ke next week. The str ike i s due to begin on Tuesday. No one knows how long it wi l l ast . The busmen have st at ed that the str ike wi l conti nue unt il gener al agreement is r eached about pay and working condit ions. Most peopl e believe t hat t he st ri ke wil l last f or at l east a week. Many owner s of pri vat e car s are going to of fer 39。s house. When he asked i f Mr Lane li ved t here, the poli ceman on dut y tol d him that since his defeat, the ex Pr im e Mi nister had gone abr oad. On t he fol lowi ng day, Cr awl ey went to t he house agai n. The same poli cem an was just wal king slowl y past t he ent rance, when Cr awley asked the sam e questi on. Though a li t le suspi cious thi s ti me, t he pol i cem an gave him the same answer . The day af ter , Cr awl ey went t o the house once m or e and asked exact ly t he same questi on. This t im e, t he pol iceman l ost his t em per .39。 Lesson77 A sucessf ul operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The m ummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper ati on. The mumm y is that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Temple of Thebes. As ther e were st range marks on t he Xr ay plates t aken of t he mummy, doct ors have been t ryi ng to fi nd out whether the wom an died of a r ar e disease. The onl y way t o do thi s was to operat e. The operati on, whi ch lasted f or over four hours, pr oved to be ver y dif fi cul t because of the har d resin which cover ed the skin. The doct or s r em oved a secti on of t he mumm y and sent it t o a l abor at or y. They al so found som et hing whi ch the X r ay of t he god Duam utef. Thi s god whi ch has the head of a cow was nor mal y pl aced inside a mummy. The doct ors have not yet deci ded how the woman di ed. They f ear ed that he mumm y would f al t o pieces when t hey cut i t open, but f ort unatel y thi s has not happened. The mum my succesf ul ly sur vi ved the operati on. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Aft er readi ng an art icle ent itl ed 39。m Br inksl ey Meers, and my other name is Glor ia Gl eam . Now you get out of her e f ast !39。sai d Rockwal ,39。 Meanwhil e, t wo other act ors, Rockwal l Sl inger and Merl in Gr eeves, had car ri ed two large f ood baskets t o a shady spot under some tr es. When they had al made t hemselves for table, a str anger appeared. He looked very angry. 39。s fi shi ng, or eight hour s in a ci nem a seing the sam e fi lm over and over again, i s usual y as far as they get. They have al been put t o sham e by a boy who, whil e playing t ruant, tr avel led 1600 mi les. He hitch hiked t o Dover and, towards evening, went i nt o a boat to f ind somewhere t o sleep. When he woke up next mor ning, he di scovered t hat t he boat had, i n the meanti me, tr avel ed to Calais. No one noti ced t he boy as he cr ept of f. From ther e, he hit ch hiked t o Par i s in a l orr y. The dr iver gave hi m a few bi scui ts and a cup of cof fee and l ef t him just out si de the cit y. The next car t he boy st opped di d not t ake hi m i nto t he cent re of Pari s as he hoped i t woul d, but to Per pignan on the Fr ench Spanish border . Ther e he was picked up by a policeman and sent back to Engl and by the local aut hor it ies. He has sur el y set up a r ecor d f or t he thousands of boys who dream of evadi ng school. Leson74 Out of the l im el ight 舞臺之外 An anci ent bus stopped by a dry ri ver bed and a par ty of famous act ors and actr esses got off . Dressed in dark gl ases and ol d clot hes, they had taken special precaut ions so that no one should r ecognize t hem . But as t hey soon discover ed, disguises can someti mes be too per fect. 39。Thi s is a wonder ful place for a pi i c, 39。Now you gut out of her e, al l of you! 39。 don39。 lesson75 SOS 呼救信號 When a li ght passenger pl ane f lew off cour se som e ti me ago, i t cr ashed i n the m ount ai ns and it s pi lot was kil led. The onl y pa senger s, a young woman and her two baby daught er s, wer e unhur t. I t was the mi ddle of wi nt er. Snow l ay thick on t he ground. The wom an knew that the near est vi lage was miles away. When it gr ew dark. she turned a suit case int o a bed and put t he chi ldr en inside i t, cover ing t hem wi th al t he clothes she could fi nd. Dur ing t he night, it got ter ri bly cold. The woman kept as ne ar as she coul d t o the chil dren and even tr ied t o get i nto t he case herself , but it was t oo smal l. Ear ly , next mor ni ng she hear d planes passi ng overhead and wonder ed how she coul d send a si gnal. Then she had an idea. She stamped out the let ters39。Ci gar et e Smoking and Your Health39。 I tol d you yest er day and the day bef ore yesterday,39。f ree r ides39。 said Glor ia Gl eam . 39。 he shout ed: 39。t be t oo har d on us. I39。 SOS39。 I li t a cigaret e t o