【正文】 said a policeman af ter war ds, 39。 As she walked away, If olowed her out of t he f air. Lesson61 Tr ouble wit h t he Hubble 哈勃望遠鏡的困境 In f ut ure, ast ronaut s wil be r equir ed t o descend f rom a spaceship while it is stil n space and t o r et ur n to it . The abilt y t o do t his wil be necessary in f uture f lights to distant pla s. Scientist s are now t rying t o discover if this is posible. The spaceship Astra which left t he ear th a shor t ime ago, wil be t r avelling t hr ee hundr ed miles int o space. At a cer tain point, he Astr a wil st op f or a shor t im e and an astr onaut wil at t empt to leave t he st at ionar y spaceship and t hen r et ur n to it . We shal not know whet her the experiment has been successful unt il we have r eceived a r adio message. The fir st message is expected t o ar ive at 7 o39。cur sed t r ee39。 lesson75 SOS 呼救信號 When alight pasenger plane f lew of course some t ime ago, it cr ashed in t he m ountains and it s pilot was kiled. The only pasenger s, a young woman and her t wo baby daughter s, wer e unhurt . I t was t he middle of wint er . Snow lay t hick on the ground. The wom an knew t hat t he near est vilage was miles away. When it grew dar k. she t ur ned a suit case into a bed and put t he children inside it , cover ing t hem wit h al t he clothes she could find. Dur ing t he night , it got er ribly cold. The woman kept as near as he could t o t he childr en and even t r ied t o get into t he case herself , but i was t o smal. Ear ly ,next morning she heard planes pasing overhead and wonder ed how she could send a signal. Then she had an idea. She stamped out he let ter s39。said Rockwal, 39。t we e m ore oft en ?39。s son, Donald, also set up a wor ld recor d. Like his f at her , he was dr iving a car caled Bluebir d. Lesson73 The r ecordholder 紀錄保持者 Lit tle boys who play t r uant f rom school are unimaginative. A quiet day39。 lesson69 But not mur der ! 并非謀殺！ I was being tested f or a dr iving licence f or t he t hir d t ime. I had been asked t o dr ive in heavy t raf ic and had one so successf uly. Aft er having been instr ucted to dr ive out of t own, I began to acquir e confidence. Sure that I had pased, Iwas almost beginning t o enjoy my t est. The examiner m us t have been pleased wit h my per formance, f or he smiled and said, 39。but I 39。r e not busy doing anyt hing, ar e you ?39。t have t o car y him. Of course, we should ar r est him, but as he has a good r ecor d, we shal et him of t his t im e.39。s closest f riends asked him t o make a speech at a wedding r ecept ion. This t he sor t of thing that Geofr ey loves. He pr epared the speech car efuly and went o t he wedding wit h Jenny. He had included a lar ge number of uny stories in t he speech and, of course, it was a great sucess. As oon as he had f inished, Jenny t old him she wanted to go home. Geof rey was a lit t le disappoint ed by this but he did as his daughter asked. On t he way home, he asked J enny if she had enjoyed t he speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn39。 if he picks a leaf, he wil die. M any vilagers believe t hat he t r ee has alr eady claim ed a num ber of victim s. The vicar has been asked t o have t he t ree cut down, but so f ar he has r ef used. He has point ed out t hat he t r ee is a usef ul sour ce of in e as t ourist s have been ing f r om al par t s of t he count r y t o see it . I n spit e of alt hat has been said, t he t our ist s have been picking leaves and cut ing their names on t he t reet runk. So f ar , not one of t hem has been st ruck down by sudden death! Lesson59 I n or out ？ 進來還是出去？ Our dog, Rex, used t o sit out side our f ront gate and bark. Every tim e he wanted to e int o the gar den he would bark until s omeone opened the gat e. As t he neighbours plained of t he noise, m y husband spent weeks t r aining him t o press his paw on t he lat ch t o let himself in. Rex soon became an expert at opening the gat e. However , when Iwas going out shopping last week, I not iced him in t he gar den near the gat e. This t ime he was barking so t hat someone would let him out ! Since then, he has developed anot her bad habit . As son as he opens t he gate f rom t he outside, he es int o t he garden and wait s unt il t he gate shut s. Then he sit s and bar ks until someone let s him out . Af ter t his he immediat ely let s himself in and begins barking again. Yest er day my husband removed t he gate and Rex got so annoyed we have not seen him since. Lesson60 The f ut ure 卜算未來 At a vilage f air , I decided to visit a fort unet eler caled Madam Bellinsky. I went int o her t ent and she t old m e t o sit down. Af ter I had given her some money, she looked int o a cryst al bal and said: 39。A r elation of yours is ing t o see you. She wil be ar r iving this evening and int ends t o stay f or a f ew days. The moment you leave t his t ent, you wil get a big sur pr ise. A woman you know well wil r ush t owar ds you. She wil speak t o you and then she wil ead you away fr om this place. That is al. 39。t . Geofr ey asked her why t his was so and she t old him t hat she did not like t o see so many people laughing at him! Lesson64 The Channel Tunnel 海峽隧道 In l858, a French engineer, Aim e Thome de Gamond, ar rived in England wit h a plan f or a twentyone m ile t unnel acr oss the English Channel. He said t hat it would be posible to build a plat form in t he centr e of t he Channel. This plat form would serve as a por t and a railway station. The tunnel would be well ventilat ed if t al chimneys were built above sea level. I n 1860, a bet t er plan was put forwar d by an Englishman, Wilam Low. He suggest ed t hat a double r ailway t unnel should be built . This would solve the problem of vent ilat ion, for if a t r ain enter ed t his t unel, it would dr aw in f r esh air behind it . For tyt wo years later a t unel was actualy begun. I f, at