【正文】 l esson75 SOS 呼救信號(hào) When a light pasenger plane f lew of f course some time ago, it crashed i n the mountains and it s pi lot was ki l ed. The onl y pa senger s, a young woman and her t wo baby daughters, were unhurt . I t was the middle of wi nt er . Snow l ay t hi ck on the ground. The woman knew t hat the nearest vi l age was mi les away. When i t gr ew dark. she turned a sui tcase into a bed and put the chil dr en i nside it , coveri ng t hem wi th al the cl ot hes she coul d f ind. Duri ng t he night, it got ter ibly col d. The woman kept as near as she could t o the childr en and even t ried to get i nt o the case hersel f, but it was t oo smal l. Ear ly ,next morning she heard planes passi ng over head and wonder ed how she could send a signal. Then she had an idea. She stamped out the let er s39。 don39。Now you gut out of here, al l of you!39。This is a wonderf ul place f or a pii c, 39。 I continued dri vi ng and af ter some time, the examiner tapped loudl y. Though t he sound could be heard clear ly, i t ook me a long time t o react. I suddenly presed t he brake pedal hard and we wer e both t hr own f or war d. The examiner looked at me sadly. 39。 Then I39。 I39。 39。Jumbo must weigh a few tons, 39。s cr op before the September r ains. On t he r ight , you can see Mr s Br abant e hersel f. She has been hel ping her husband f or t hi rty year s now. Mrs Brabante i s t al ki ng t o the manager of t he l ocal fact or y wher e t he crop is processed. This last scene shows you what wi l happen at he end of the har vest : the famous Calabr ian macar oni eat ing peti ti on ! Signor Frateli , t he pr esent champi on, has won i t ever y year since 1961. And t hat ends our special bull et in for today, Thursday, Apri l 1st. We ar e now r et ur ning you to t he studi o. 39。Wel l, I39。 Look, sher if f, 39。t we e more oft en ?39。s son, Donal d, also set up a worl d record. Li ke his f at her, he was dri vi ng a car cal led Bluebir d. Lesson73 The recordhol der 紀(jì)錄保持者 Li tl e boys who play tr uant f rom school are uni maginative. A quiet day39。 l esson69 But not murder! 并非謀殺！ I was bei ng t ested for a dr i vi ng l icence f or t he t hi rd ti me. I had been asked t o dr ive in heavy traf ic and had done so successf ul 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 passed, I was almost beginning to enj oy my t est. The exami ner must have been pleased with my perf or mance, for he smil ed and said, 39。m goi ng t o the dentist.39。 No, not at al l,39。 I said. 39。guar d of honour39。 of six pret y gir ls, he set off down t he main st r et of the ci ty ri di ng a baby el phant cal led Jumbo. He, should have known t hat t he pol ice woul d never al low t hi s ort of t hi ng. A poli ceman approached J immy and t ol d him he ought t o have gone al ong a si destr et as Jumbo was hol di ng up t he t rafi c. Though Jimm y agreed t o go at once, Jumbo ref used t o m ove. Fi f t een pol icemen had t o push very har d to get him of f the main str et. The poli ce had a dif fi cult ti me, but they wer e most a mused. 39。Fancy meeting you here !39。 I answer ed.39。 39。Just one more t hi ng, Mr Eames. Let us suppose that a child suddenl y cr osses the road i n fr ont of you. As soon as I tap on t he wi ndow, I want the car to be st opped i mmediately.39。s fishing, or eight hour s in a cinema seing the same fi lm over and over again, is usual ly as far as they get. They have al l been put t o shame by a boy who, whil e pl aying tr uant, travel led 1600 miles. He hitch hi ked to Dover and, t owards evening, 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, in t he meanti me, tr avel ed to Calais. No one not iced the boy as he cr ept off. From t here, he hit chhiked to Par is in a l or ry. The driver gave him a few biscuit s and a cup of coffee and l ef t him just out si de t he city. The next car the boy stopped di d not take him into the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the Fr ench Spani sh border . Ther e he was picked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by t he l ocal aut hor it es. He has urely set up a r ecord f or the thousands of boys who dr eam of evadi ng school . Leson74 Out of the li mel ight 舞臺(tái)之外 An ancient bus st opped by a dr y ri ver bed and a par ty of famous actor s and actr esses got of f. Dressed in dar k gl asses and old clothes, they had t aken special pr ecaut ions so that no one shoul d recogni ze t hem. But as t hey soon discovered, disgui ses can sometimes be t oo perf ect. 39。 Meanwhile, two other act or s, Rockwal l Sl i nger and Mer lin Gr eves, had car ied two large f ood baskets to a shady spot under some tr es. When they had al made t hems el ves for tabl e, a st ranger appear ed. He looked very angr y. 39。said Rockwal ,39。m Bri nksl ey Mers, and my ot her name is Gl or ia Gleam. Now you get out of her e fast !39。 Leson77 A successful operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egypti an woman who died in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper at ion. The mummy i s that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Templ e of Thebes. As ther e wer e 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 the woman di ed of a rare dis ease. The onl y way t o do t hi s was t o operate. The operation, which lasted for over f our hours, proved t o be very dif icult because of the hard r esin which cover ed t he skin. The doctors removed a section of t he mummy and sent it to a l aboratory. They also found somet hi ng which the Xr ay of the god Duamutef. This god which has the head of a cow was nor mal ly placed insi de a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They f eared that he mummy woul d fal to pieces when the y cut it open, but f or tunately t hi s has not happened. The mummy succesfull y sur