【正文】 op i s pr ocessed. This last scene shows you what wi l happen at he end of the har vest : the famous Calabr ian macar oni eat ing pet it on ! Signor Fratel i, the pr esent champi on, has won i t ever y year since 1961. And t hat ends our special bull et in f or today, Thursday, Apri l 1st. We ar e now r eturning you to t he studio.39。Wel, I 39。 Look, sherif f, 39。t we e more oft en ?39。s son, Donald, al so set up a wor ld r ecor d. Like his father, he was dr iving a car cal ed Bl uebi rd. Leson73 The record holder 紀(jì)錄保持者 Lit tle boys who pl ay t ruant fr om school ar e unimaginat ive. A qui et day39。 leson69 But not murder! 并非謀殺！ I was being tested f or a driving li cence f or the thir d ti me. I had been asked t o dr ive in heavy traf ic and had done so succe ssf ul ly. Af ter havi ng been i nst r ucted to drive out of town, I began t o acquir e confi dence. Sure that I had pased, I was al most beginni ng t o enjoy my test. The examiner must have been pleased wi th my per formance, f or he sm iled and sai d, 39。m going to the denti st .39。 I answered. 39。Hull o, Bert, 39。s hospit al. Dr essed up as Fat her Chr istma s and acpanied by a 39。Jumbo must wei gh a f ew tons,39。 Hul lo, El izabet h, 39。 39。l e wi th you,39。Mr Eames,39。 sai d Gloria Gl eam. 39。 he shout ed: 39。t be t oo hard on us. I39。 SOS39。 I l it a cigaret e t o calm my nerves. I smoked wi th concentrati on and pl easur e as I was sur e that this would be my last ci garet e. For a whol e wek I di d not smoke at al l and dur ing this ti me, my wif e suff er ed t er ri bl y. I had al the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoki ng: a bad temper and an enormous appeti te. My fri ends kept on offeri ng me cigaretes and cigar s. They made no efor t o hi de t heir amusement whenever I pr oduced a packet of swe ts f rom my pocket . Af ter seven days of thi s I went to a party. Everybody around me was moki ng and I f el t extr emely unfort able. When my old f riend Brian urged me t o accept a cigarete, it was more t han I coul d bear. I took one guil til y, li t it and sm oked wi th sat isfact ion. My wif e was del ighted that things had returned t o nor mal once more. Anyway, as Bri an poi nted out, it is t he easiest thing in t he wor ld to give up smoki ng. He hi mself has done it l ot s of ti mes! Lesson79 By air 乘飛機(jī) I used to tr avel by air a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My parent s, used to li ve i n South Ameri ca and I used to f ly there f rom Europe i n the holi days. An ai rhostes would take char ge of me and I never had an unpleasant experience. I am used to t ravel ing by air and only on one occasion have I ever f el t f ri ghtened. After taki ng of f, we wer e f lying low over the city and sl owl y gaining height, when the plane suddenly t ur ned r ound and fl ew back t o the ai rpor t. Whil e we were wait ing to land, an ai rhost ess told us to keep calm and to get off t he plane quietly as soon as i t had touched down. Everybody on boar d was worr ied and we were cur ious t o find out what had happened. Lat er we learnt t hat ther e was a ver y important person on board. The pol ice had been told that a bomb had been plant ed on the pl ane. eof f r ey l oves. He pr epared the speech carefull y and went to the wedding wit h Jenny. He had incl uded a l ar ge number of f unny st or ies in the speech and, of course, it was a gr eat success. As soon as he had f inished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffr ey was ali tl e di sappointed by t hi s but he did as hi s daughter asked. On t he way home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech. To his sur pr ise, she said she hadn39。t have to cary hi m. Of course, we should arest him, but as he has a good r ecor d, we shal let hi m off this ti me. 39。r e not busy doi ng anyt hi ng, ar e you ?39。 I l ied, 39。s always pl enty t o read i n the 39。 l esson70 Red for danger 危險(xiǎn)的紅色 Duri ng a bull fight, a dr unk suddenly wandered into t he mi ddle of the ring. The cr owd began to shout, but the drunk was unawar e of the danger . The bull was busy wi th the matador at the ti me, but it s uddenly caught sight of the dr unk who was shouting rude remar ks and waving a red cap. Appar entl y sensi t ive to cri ti cism, the bull f or got al l about the mat ador and char ged at he drunk. The cr owd suddenly grew quiet. The drunk, however, semed quit e sure of hi mself. When the bull got close t o hi m, he cl umsil y st epped asi de t o let i t pas. The cr owd br oke into cheers and t he drunk bowed. By this ti me, however , t hr e men had e i nt o the ri ng and they qui ckly dr agged the drunk to safety. Even the bull se med to feel sor ry f or him, for it looked on sympatheticaly until the drunk was out of t he way bef or e once mor e turning it s at enti on t o the mat ador. Leson71 A f am ous cl ock 一個(gè)著名的大鐘 When you visit London, one of the f irst things you wi l see is Big Ben, t he f amous clock whi ch can be heard al over the wor ld on the . If the Houses of Parl iament had hot been bur ned down i n 1834, the great clock woul d never have been er ected. Bi g Ben takes i ts name fr om Sir Benjamin Hal who was responsible f or t he ma king of the clock when t he new Houses of Parl iament wer e being bui lt. I t i s not only of immense si ze, but is extr emely accur at e as wel . Of ficials f rom Gr enwi ch Observatory have the clock checked twi ce a day. On the . you can hear the cl ock when i t i s actual ly stri ki ng because microphones are connected to t he clock t ower . Big Ben has rar ely gone wr ong. Once, however , i t f ai led to give the corr ect time. A pai nt er who had been wor king on t he t ower hung a pot of pai nt on one of t he hands and slowed i t down ! Lesson72 A car call ed Bl uebird “藍(lán)鳥(niǎo)”汽車(chē) The great raci ng dr iver , Sir Malcolm Campbel , was the fir st man to dri ve at over 300 miles per hour. He set up a new wor ld r ecord in Sept ember 1935 at Bonnevil l