【正文】 cal m m y nerves. I smoked wit h concentr ati on and pl easure as I was sure t hat t his would be my l ast cigaret e. For a whol e week I did not smoke at al and duri ng thi s ti me, my wi fe suf fered t er ibly. I had al the usual symptom s of someone giving up smoki ng: a bad t em per and an enor mous appet ite. My fr iends kept on of feri ng me ci gar et tes and cigars. They made no ef or t to hi de their amusement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweets f r om my pocket. Af ter seven days of t his I went to a par ty. Everybody ar ound me was sm oki ng and I f el t ext remely unf ort abl e. When my old fr iend Br ian ur ged m e to accept a ci gar et te, it was m or e t han I could bear. I t ook one gui lti ly, l it it and smoked wit h sat isf acti on. My wi fe was del ighted t hat t hi ngs had r etur ned t o norm al once more. Anyway, as Br ian poi nt ed out , it i s the easi est thi ng in the wor ld t o give up smoking. He hi msel f has done it l ots of ti mes! Lesson79 By ai r 乘飛機(jī) I used t o tr avel by ai r a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ents, used to li ve in South Ameri ca and I used to fl y ther e fr om Eur ope in t he hol idays. An ai rhostess would t ake charge of me and I never had an unpleasant exper ience. I am used to t ravel ing by ai r and only on one occasi on have I ever felt f ri ghtened. Af ter taking of f, we were f lyi ng low over the ci ty and slowl y gaining height , when t he plane suddenly t urned r ound and f lew back t o the air port . Whil e we wer e wait ing t o l and, an air hostes t old us t o keep cal m and t o get of f the plane quietl y as soon as i t had t ouched down. Ever ybody on board was worr ied and we wer e cur i ous t o f ind out what had happened. Lat er we learnt that there was a ver y i mport ant person on boar d. The pol ice had been t old t hat a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Af t er we had landed, the pl ane was sear ched thoroughly. For tunately, nothi ng was found and fi ve hour s lat er we were able to t ake of f agai n. Lesson80 The Cryst al Palace 水晶宮 Per haps t he most extr aordinar y buildi ng of the nieenth centur y was the Cr yst al Pal ace, which was buil t in Hyde Par k for t he Great Exhi bit ion of 1851. The Cr yst al Pal ace was di f er ent f rom al other buil di ngs in t he worl d, f or it was made of ir on and glass. I t was one of t he bi ggest buildi ngs of al t im e and a lot of people fr om many countr ies cam e to see it . A gr eat many goods we re sent t o t he exhibi ti on fr om var ious par ts of t he worl d. There was al so a great deal of machi ner y on display. The most wonderf ul piece of machi ner y on show was Nasmyth39。 he shout ed, 39。 t o peopl e on their way t o wor k. Thi s wil l rel ieve pressur e on the t rains t o some extent. Meanwhil e, a number of uni ver sit y st udent s have volunt er ed to dr ive buses whi le t he st ri ke lasts. Al t he young men ar e exper t dr iver s, but bef ore t hey dr ive any of t he buses, they wi l have t o pas a special test. The st udent s ar e going t o t ake t he test i n t wo days39。 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 we ek. 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 apeared. 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 th