【正文】 s ordered sever al tons of a special type of grass seed whi ch would gr ow quickly. The sed was sprayed over t he ground in huge quantit ies by aeroplanes. The pl anes had been pl ant ing seed for near ly a month when i t began t o rai n. By then, however , in many pl aces t he gras had al ready taken root. I n place of the gr eat tr ees which had been gr owing t her e f or centur ies, patches of gr een had begun to appear in t he blackened soi l. Leson63 She was not am used 她并不覺得好笑 Geoff rey Ham pden has a l ar ge cir cl e of fr iends and is very popular at par ti es. Everybody admir es hi m f or his f ine sense of humoreverybody, t hat i s, except his six year old daughter , Jenny. Recent ly, one of Geof fr ey39。so it was f ort unat e that we didn39。 Bert answer ed. 39。Woul d you mi nd my i ng wit h you ?39。 he answer ed. 39。 he sai d, i n a mour nf ul voi ce, 39。 It couldn39。 I 39。m Rockwal Sl inger and t his i s Mer lin Greeves. 39。 As soon as I went out side, I f ot al about Madam Bel li nsky because my wif e hurr ied t owar ds me. 39。s hospital . Dr essed up as Father Chri st mas and apanied by a 39。Hul lo, Bert ,39。 No, not at al ,39。but I39。wai t ing r oom ! 39。s f ootsteps many year s later , Sir Mal col m39。Mr Eames,39。l l e wi th you,39。 39。Hull o, Elizabeth,39。 said a pol iceman aft er wards, 39。 As she wal ked away, I fol lowed her out of the f air . Lesson61 Trouble wi t h the Hubble 哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡的困境 I n f utur e, ast ronauts wi l be r equi red t o descend fr om a spaceship whi le it is st il i n space and to retur n t o it . The abi li ty t o do thi s wi l be necessary in f utur e fl ights to di st ant plas. Sci ent i st s are now tr yi ng to di scover if t hi s is possi ble. The spaceship Astr a which l ef t the eart h a short ti me ago, wil l be tr avel ing t hree hundr ed mi les int o s pace. At a cer tain poi nt, the Ast ra wi l l st op for a shor t ti me and an astr onaut wil l at tempt t o leave the stati onar y spaceshi p and then r et urn to i t. We shal not know whether the exper im ent has been successf ul unt il we have r eceived a r adi o message. The fi rst mesage is expect ed to ar ri ve at 7 o39。Wel , I39。 Look, sher if f, 39。t we e m ore of ten ?39。s son, Donal d, also set up a worl d r ecor d. Li ke his f at her , he was dri vi ng a car cal led Bl uebir d. Lesson73 The record holder 紀(jì)錄保持者 Li t le boys who play t ruant fr om school are uni maginative. A qui et day39。 l esson69 But not m urder! 并非謀殺！ I was bei ng tested f or a dri vi ng li cence f or t he thi rd t im e. I had been asked to dr ive i n heavy t raf fi c and had done so succe ssf ully. Af ter havi ng been instr uct ed to dr ive out of t own, I began to acquir e conf idence. Sure that I had passed, I was al most beginning to enjoy m y test. The exam iner must have been pl eased wi th my per for mance, f or he smi led and sai d, 39。m going t o t he denti st.39。 I answer ed. 39。 I sai d. 39。guar d of honour39。Wher e have you been hidi ng ?39。 she asked im pat ientl y. 39。 of si x pr et ty gi rl s, he set of f down the m ai n str eet of the ci ty r idi ng a baby el ephant cal led Jumbo. He, shoul d have known t hat he police woul d never al ow t hi s sor t of thing. A pol iceman appr oached Jimm y and tol d him he ought to have gone along a sidest reet as Jumbo was holdi ng up the t raf i c. Though Ji mmy agr eed t o go at once, Jum bo ref used t o move. Fi ft en pol icemen had to push ver y hard to get him off t he main str eet. The pol ice had a di f icult t ime, but t hey were most amused. 39。Fancy m et ing you here ! 39。 I 39。 39。Just one more thing, Mr Eames. Let us suppose that a child suddenl y crosses t he road i n fr ont of you. As soon as I t ap on the wi ndow, I want t he car to be st opped i mmediat el y.39。s f ishing, or ei ght hours i n a cinema seei ng the same f il m over and over agai n, i s usual l y as f ar as t hey get. They have al l been put to shame by a boy who, whi le pl ayi ng tr uant , t ravel ed 1600 m il es. He hit c h hi ked to Dover and, t owar ds evening, went into a boat to fi nd som ewher e to sl ep. When he woke up next morni ng, he discover ed that the boat had, in t he meant im e, t ravel led t o Calai s. No one noti ced the boy as he crept of f . Fr om t her e, he hi tchhi ked to Pari s in a lor ry. The dri ver gave him a f ew biscui ts and a cup of coff e and l eft him j ust outside t he ci ty. The next car the boy stopped di d not take him int o the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Per pi gnan on the Fr enchSpanish border. There he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by t he local author it es. He has surely set up a r ecor d for t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading school . Lesson74 O ut of t he l imel ight 舞臺(tái)之外 An anci ent bus st opped by a dr y r iver bed and a par ty of f am ous actor s and act resses got of f . Dr essed i n dar k gl asses and ol d cl othes, t hey had t aken speci al pr ecauti ons so t hat no one shoul d r ecognize t hem. But as they soon discovered, disgui ses can som et i m es be too perf ect . 39。 Meanwhi le, two ot her actor s, Rockwal Sl inger and Mer li n Gr eeves, had car ied t wo l ar ge food basket s to a shady spot under some t rees. When they had al l made themselves fort abl e, a st ranger appear ed. He looked ver y angr y. 39。said Rockwal ,39。m Br inksley Mer s, and my ot her name i s Glor ia Gl eam. Now you get out of here f ast ! 39。cl ock this evening. By that ti me, the Astr a wi l have been f lying through space f or sevent een hour s and wil l have cir cled t he ear th a gr eat many t im es. When t he fi rst radio mesages have been r ecei ved, the r esul ts of the t ri p wi l be announced imm edi ately. Leson62 Aft er the fi re 大火之后 Fir emen had been f ighti ng the f orest fi re f or near ly t hree weeks bef ore t hey could get i t under cont rol. A shor t t