【正文】 lf , but i t was too smal . Earl y ,next mor ni ng she hear d planes pasing overhead and wondered how she could send a si gnal. Then she had an idea. She st amped out the leters39。 don39。Now you gut out of her e, al l of you!39。Thi s is awonder f ul pl ace for api ic,39。 I conti nued dr iving and after some ti me, the examiner t apped l oudly. Though the sound coul d be heard clearly, it took me a l ong ti me to r eact . I suddenly pressed the br ake pedal har d and we were bot h thrown forward. The examiner l ooked at me sadl y. 39。 Then I39。 I answer ed. 39。 I said. 39。 I li t a cigarete t o calm my nerves. I smoked wit h concentrati on and pl easure as I was sur e that this woul d be my l ast ci garet e. For a whol e wek I di d not smoke at al l and duri ng t hi s time, my wif e suff er ed t er ribly. I had al l t he usual sympt oms of someone giving up smoki ng: a bad temper and an enormous appeti te. My f ri ends kept on of feri ng me cigaretes and cigar s. They made no ef fort to hi de their am usement whenever I pr oduced a packet of swets fr om my pocket. Af ter seven days of this I went to a par ty. Everybody ar ound me was smoking and I f el t ext remely un fortable. When my old fr iend Br ian ur ged me to accept a cigar et te, i t wa s more than I coul d bear . I t ook one guilt il y, li t i t and smoked wit h sati sf acti on. My wif e was del ight ed t hat things had r et ur ned t o normal once mor e. Anyway, as Br ian poi nt ed out , it is the easi est thing in the worl d to give up smoking. He himself has done it lots of t imes! Leson79 By air 乘飛機(jī) I used t o travel by ai r a great deal when I was a boy. My par ent s, used t o li ve i n South America and I used to f ly there fr om Eur ope in t he holidays. An air hostes woul d take char ge of me and I never had an unpleasant exper ience. I am used to t ravel ing by air and only on one occasion have I ever f el t f ri ghtened. Af ter taki ng off , we were f lying low over the ci ty and slowly gaining height, when the plane suddenly t ur ned round and flew back t o the ai rpor t. While we were wait ng to land, an air host ess t old us t o keep calm and to get off the plane quietly as soon as it had t ouched down. Everybody on boar d was worr ied and we wer e curi ous to f ind out what had happened. Lat er we lear nt t hat ther e was a ver y impor tant per son on board. The poli ce had been t old that a bomb had been pl anted on the pl ane. Aft er we had l anded, the pl ane was searched t horoughly. For tunately, nothing was f ound and fi ve hour s later we were able to t ake of f agai n. Lesson80 The Cryst al Palace 水晶宮 Per haps the most extraordinar y bui lding of t he ni ent h century was the Cr ystal Palace, which was bui lt in Hyde Park for the Great Exhi bi tion of 1851. The Cr ystal Palace was di f er ent fr om al l other buildings in the world, for it was made of ir on and gl ass. It was one of the biggest buildings of al time and a lot of peopl e fr om many count ri es came t o see it. A great many goods we re sent to the exhibit ion fr om vari ous par ts of t he worl d. There was al so a great deal of machinery on display. The most wonder ful pi ece of machinery on show was Nasmyth39。 SOS39。t be too har d on us. I 39。 he shouted: 39。 said Gl or ia Gleam. 39。Mr Eames,39。l l e wit h you,39。 I 39。Fancy meti ng you here ! 39。t he main st reet . The pol ice had a di f icul t ime, but t hey were most amused. 39。 I said. 39。 I answer ed. 39。 Then I39。 I conti nued dr iving and after some ti me, the examiner t apped l oudly. Though the sound coul d be heard clearly, it took me a l ong ti me to r eact . I suddenly pressed the br ake pedal har d and we were bot h thrown forward. The examiner l ooked at me sa dl y. 39。Thi s is awonder f ul pl ace for api ic,39。Now you gut out of her e, al l of you!39。 don39。 leson75 SOS 呼救信號(hào) When a light pasenger plane f lew off course some time ago, it crashed in 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, wer e unhurt. I t was the middl e of winter. Snow l ay t hi ck on the gr ound. The woman knew that he near est vi lage was mil es away. When it grew dar k. she t ur ned a sui tcase into a bed and put t he childr en inside it, covering them wit h al l t he clothes he could fi nd. Dur ing the ni ght , i t got t er ri bl y cold. The woman kept as near as he coul d to t he chi ldren and even tr ied to get into t he case her self , but i t was too smal . Earl y ,next mor ni ng she hear d planes pasing overhead and wondered how she could send a si gnal. Then she had an idea. She st amped out the leters39。Cigarete Smoking and Your Heal th39。Hull o, Ber t, 39。 No, not at al, 39。m going to the denti st. 39。Just one mor e thing, Mr Eames. Let us suppose t hat a chil d suddenly cr osses the road in f ront of you. As soon as I tap on the window, I want t he car t o be stopped immedi at el y. 39。s fi shing, or ei ght hours in a cinema seei ng t he same f ilm over and over agai n, is usualy as far as t hey get. They have al been put to shame by a boy who, whi le playi ng t ruant, tr aveled 1600 mil es. He hit ch hiked t o Dover and, towar ds evening, went into a boat to f ind somewhere t o sleep. When he woke up next mor ni ng, he discover ed that the boat had, in t he meant ime, t ravel ed t o Cal ais. No one not iced t he boy as he cr ept of f. Fr om there , he hitchhiked t o Pari s in a lorr y. The dr iver gave him a f ew bi scui ts and a cup of cof fee and left him j ust outside the ci ty. The next car t he boy st opped did not t ake him i nt o the centre of Pari s as he hoped i t would, but t o Per pi gnan on t he FrenchSpanish bor der. Ther e he was pi cked up by a poli ceman and sent back to England by the local authori ties. He has sur el y set up a r ecor d for the thousands of boys who dream of evading school. Lesson74 Out of t he l imeli ght