【正文】 of them has been turned t o stone yet ! Leson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Captain Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new ser vice. The 39。 gave39。They wi l l al so be bui lding new roads and a special rai lwayl ine. The Games wil l be hel d just out side the capit al and t he whol e ar ea wil l be cal led 39。 A new play i s ing t o The Globe soon,39。 No,39。 if you at e more and t alked less, we woul d both enj oy our di nner !39。t buy things we don39。 I f ind i t beauti ful, 39。 i s a sm al l Swiss aeroplane cal l ed a 39。 si gns out si de hi s gat e, but t hese have not had any ef ect. Now he has put an ugl y st one head over the gate. It i s one of t he ugl i est faces I have ever seen. I asked him what i t was and he t old m e t hat it was Medusa, t he Gor gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l t urn m ot ori st s t o st one. But none of t hem has been t urned t o st one yet ! Lesson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車！ Capt ain Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new ser vice. The 39。 I need not r emind you of t hat t er ri ble t ie you bought yest er day. 39。 m y wi fe answer ed as she l ooked at hersel f in the mi r or. I sat down on one of t hose modern chair s wi th hol es i n i t and wai ted. We had been in t he hat shop for half an hour and my wi fe was st il i n f ront of t he mi r or. 39。 Young man,39。Wi l you be spending your hol idays abr oad this year ?39。 I am Mr John Gil ber t. 39。s m other, who swam the Channel hersel f when she was a gir l. Leson37 The Ol ym pic G ames 奧林匹克運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì) The Ol ympic Gam es wil l be hel d in our count ry in f our years39。t any in si ght : they ha d al run away! The man l aughed when he r eal ized what had happened. He cal led out to t he chi ldr en and threw the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Succes st ory 成功者的故事 Yester day af ternoon Fr ank Hawki ns was tel ling me about his experi ences as a young man. Frank i s now t he head of a very l arge busines pany, but as a boy he used t o work in a smal l shop. It was his j ob to repai r bicyc les and at t hat t ime he used to work fourt en hour s a day. He saved money for year s and in 1938 he bought a smal wor kshop of hi s own. Duri ng the war Fr ank used to make spar e par ts f or aer opl anes. At that ti me he had two hel per s. By the end of the war , the smal wor k shop had bee a l ar ge factor y whi ch em pl oyed seven hundred and twent y eight people. Frank smi led when he r em ember ed his hard ear ly years and t he long r oad t o succes. He was sti l smi li ng when the door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She want ed hi m to r epai r their son39。 may r eveal somet hi ng of val ue fair ly soon. Lesson56 Fast er t han sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a race is hel d for old car s. A lot of car s ent ered f or this r ace last year and t her e was a gr eat deal of exci tement just bef ore i t began. One of t he most handsom e car s was a Roll s Royce Sil ver Ghost. The most unusual car was a Benz which had only t hree wheels. Bui lt i n 1885, i t was the oldest car taking par t. Af ter a great many loud explosions, t he race began. Many of the cars br oke down on the course and some dr iver s spent more t im e under thei r car s than in them !t i r ed so t hey pet out the f ir e and cr ept i nto t hei r tent. Their sleepingbags were war m and f ort abl e, so t hey al l sl ept soundl y. I n t he middle of t he night, t wo boys woke up and began shout ing. The tent was f ull of water ! They al l leapt out of their sleepi ngbags and hur ri ed out si de. I t was rai ni ng heavil y and they f ound that a st ream had f orm ed in t he fi eld. The st ream wound i ts way acr oss t he fi el d and then f lowed r ight under t hei r tent! Leson28 No parking 禁止停車 Jasper Whit e is one of t hose r ar e peopl e who beli eves i n anci ent myt hs. He has just bought a new house i n t he ci ty, but ever si nce he moved in, he has had t rouble wi th motor ists. when he retur ns hom e at ni ght , he al ways fi nds t hat someone has parked a car outside his gat e. Because of thi s, he has not been abl e t o get hi s own car i nto hi s gar age even once. Jasper has put up39。t have sai d t hat,39。You needn39。 No,39。 No,39。 No, 39。s f ather wil l set out wit h her i n a smal boat. Mr Hart has tr ai ned hi s daught er f or year s. Tom or row he wil l be watching her anxi ousl y as she swim s t he l ong di stance to Engl and. Er na i ntends t o t ake short r est s ever y t wo hour s. She wi l have som et hing t o dri nk but she wi l not eat any sol i d f ood. Most of Er na39。. This wonderf ul pl ane can car ry seven passengers. The m ost sur pr isi ng t hing about i t, however , is t hat i t can l and anywher e: on snow, wat er, or even on a pl oughed f iel d. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。 No Par king39。s bi cycl e! Leson32 Shoppi ng m ade easy 購(gòu)物變得很方便 People ar e not so honest as t hey once were. The tem pt at ion t o steal i s gr eat er t han ever bef ore especial y i n lar ge shops. A det ect i ve r ecentl y wat ched a wel dr esed wom an who al ways went i nto a l ar ge st or e on Monday m or ni ngs. One Monday, there wer e f ewer peopl e i n t he shop t han usual when t he wom an cam e i n, so it was easi er for t he det ecti ve t o wat ch her . The woman f ir st bought a few sm al ar ti cl es. Af t er a l it tl e tim e, she chose one of t he m ost expensive dr esses i n t he shop and handed i t o an assi st ant who wr apped it up f or her as qui ckly as possi bl e. Then t he woman sim pl y t ook t he par cel and wal ked out of the shop wit hout paying. When she was ar r est ed, t he detecti ve f ound out t hat he shop assistant was her daught er. The gir l39。 ti me. As a gr eat m any peopl e wi l be vi sit i ng t he count r y, t he gover nm ent wil l be bui l di ng new hotel s, an imm ense s t adi um, and a fi ne new swi mm ing pool. 39。 Lesson40 Food and tal k 進(jìn)餐與交談 Last wek at a di nner par t y,