【正文】 eat deal of pleasure. It was very different from modern car races but no less exciting. I find it beautiful,39。 I remarked suddenly. I regretted saying it almost at once. I said to my wife. 39。 she answered,39。 Will you be staying in England?39。 39。s operation had been successful and the doctor told him that it had been. He then asked when Mr Gilbert would be allowed to go home and the doctor told him that he would have to stay in hospital for another two weeks. Then Dr Millington asked the caller if he was a relative of the patient.39。Lesson38 Everything except the weather 惟獨沒有考慮到天氣Lesson37 The Olympic Games 奧林匹克運動會Lesson36 Across the Channel 橫渡海峽Lesson52 A pretty carpet 漂亮的地毯Well, in that case, I prefer to stay on the bus,39。It doesn39。This is as far as we go.39。ll tell you where to get off,39。39。Lesson49 The end of a dream 美夢告終A public house which was recently bought by Mr Ian Thompson is up for sale. Mr Thompson is going to sell it because it is haunted. He told me that he could not go to sleep one night because he heard a strange noise ing from the bar. The next morning, he found that the doors had been blocked by chairs and the furniture had been moved. Though Mr Thompson had turned the lights off before he went to bed, they were on in the morning. He also said that he had found five empty whisky bottles which the ghost must have drunk the night before. When I suggested that some villagers must have e in for a free drink, Mr Thompson shook his head. The villagers have told him that they will not accept the inn even if he gives it away. but only 5o per cent a thief!39。 said Mrs Sterling later, 39。Lesson42 Not very musical 并非很懂音樂 I need not remind you of that terrible tie you bought yesterday.39。 We mustn39。lesson41 Do you call that a hat? 你把那個叫帽子嗎？In despair, I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner. No,39。 A new play is ing to The Globe soon,39。While John Gilbert was in hospital, he asked his doctor to tell him whether his operation had been successful, but the doctor refused to do so. The following day, the patient asked for a bedside. Workers will have pleted the new roads by the end of this year. By the end of next year, they will have finished work on the new stadium. The fine modern buildings have been designed by Kurt Gunter. Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up. We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country.s mother, who swam the Channel herself when she was a girl. car was badly damaged and easy to recognize. Shortly afterwards, the police stopped the car and both men were arrested. Lesson four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. He was I said. 39。 she answered.39。39。t buy things we don39。 39。As we had had a long walk through one of the markets of Old Delhi, we stopped at a square to have a rest. After a time, we noticed a snakecharmer with two large baskets at the other side of the square, so we went to have a look at him. As soon as he saw us, he picked up a long pipe which was covered with coins and opened one of the baskets. When he began to play a tune, we had our first glimpse of the snake. It rose out of the basket and began to follow the movements of the pipe. We were very much surprised when the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz tunes and modern pop songs. The snake, however, continued to 39。but they did not steal anything.39。 Two months later, some more money was sent to Sam with another note:39。lesson46 Expensive and unfortable 既昂貴又受罪Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed. For the first time in his life, he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress. Because the weather was very hot, he carried the bed on to the roof of his house. He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm blew up. A gust of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard below. The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground. Although the bed was smashed to pieces, the man was miraculously unhurt. When he woke up, he was still on the mattress. Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him, the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house. After he I39。 answered the conductor. 39。t matter,39。 I answered.We have just moved into a new house and I have been working hard all morning. I have been trying to get my new room in order. This has not been easy because I own over a thousand books. To make matters worse, the room is rather small, so I have temporarily put my books on the floor. At the moment, they cover every inch of floor space and I actually have to walk on them to get in or out of the room. A short while ago, my sister helped me to carry one of my old bookcases up the stairs. She went into my room and got a big surprise when she saw all those books on the floor. 39。Lesson53 Hot snake 觸電的蛇Erna Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow. She is going to set out from the French coast at five o39。The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years39。My old friend, Harrison, had lived in the Mediterranean for many years before he returned to England. He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down in the country. He had no sooner returned than he bought a fine house and went to live there. Almost immediately he began to plain about the weather, for even though it was still summer, it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold. After so many years of sunshine, Harrison got a shock. He acted as if he had never lived in England before. In the end, it was more than he could bear. He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country. The dream he had had for so many years ended there. Harrison had thought of everything except the weather. No,39。Lesson40 Food and talk 進餐與交談