【正文】 wai ti ng r oom ! 39。 No, not at al ,39。At t he t i m e t he t unnel shoul d be bui lt . This woul d solve the pr obl em of venti lation, f or i f a t rain ent er ed t hi s tunnel, it would draw i n fr esh ai r behi nd i t. For tyt wo year s later a t unnel was actual ly begun. If , at the time, the Brit ish had not feared invasi on, it woul d have been pl et ed. Recentl y, ther e has again been great interest i n the idea of a Channel Tunnel. If it is built , i t wi l connect Br itain t o Eur ope for the fi rst ime in history. Leson65 Jum bo versus t he poli ce 小象對(duì)警察 Last Christmas, the circus owner , Jim my Gates, decided to take some pr esent s to a chil dr en39。m onst er s39。 Oh, is i t ?39。 Br inksley Meer s agreed. 39。s al ways pl enty t o read i n the 39。r e not busy doi ng anyt hi ng, ar e you ?39。t unnel shoul d be bui lt . This woul d solve the pr obl em of venti lation, f or i f a t rain ent er ed t hi s tunnel, it would draw i n fr esh ai r behi nd i t. For tyt wo year s later a t unnel was actual ly begun. If , at the time, the Brit ish had not feared invasi on, it woul d have been pl et ed. Recentl y, ther e has again been great interest i n the idea of a Channel Tunnel. If it is built , i t wi l connect Br itain t o Eur ope for the fi rst ime in history. Leson65 Jum bo versus t he poli ce 小象對(duì)警察 Last Christmas, the circus owner , Jim my Gates, decided to take some pr esent s to a chil dr en39。 No, not at al ,39。wai ti ng r oom ! 39。No newspaper men, no fil m f ans! Why don39。 said the sherif f with a sneer. 39。 which have at times been si ghted are si mply st range f ish. Ocasional ly, unusual cr eatur es ar e washed to t he shor e, but they ar e rarely caught out at sea. Some ti me ago, however , a peculi ar fi sh was caught near Madagascar. A smal l f ishi ngboat was car ied miles out to sea by the powerf ul fi sh as it pull ed on the li ne. Reali zi ng t hat this was no ordinar y fi sh, t he f isherman made ever y ef fort not to damage it in any way. When it was eventual ly brought to shore, it was f ound to be over t hi rteen feet long. It had a head l ike a horse, big blue eyes, shining si lver ski n, and a bri ght red tail , The fish, which has since been sent t o a museum where i t i s being examined by a scientist, is cal led an oarfi sh. Such cr eatures have rarely been seen al ive by man as t hey li ve at a dept h of six hundred feet . Leson83 Aft er t he elect ions 大選之后 The former Prime Minister , Mr Wentwor th Lane, was defeated i n the recent elections. He is now retir ing fr om poli ti cal if e and has gone abr oad. My f ri end, Cr awley, has always been a f anatical opponent of Mr Lane39。s hospit al. Dr essed up as Fat her Chr istmas and acpanied by a 39。 I answered. 39。 lesson69 But not murder! 并非謀殺！ I was being test ed f or a driving l icence f or t he thi rd ti me. I had been asked t o dr ive in heavy traf ic and had done so successf ul ly. Af ter havi ng been i nstr ucted to dri ve out of town, I began t o acqui re confi dence. Sure t hat I had passed, I was almost beginning to enj oy my t est. The exami ner must have been pl eased wit h my perf ormance, f or he smi led and said, 39。s al ways pl enty t o read i n the 39。r e not busy doi ng anyt hi ng, ar e you ?39。s home. We shal al l r emember Mr Page f or his pat ience and underst anding and f or the kindl y encouragement he gave us when we went so unwil lingly t o school. A great many f or mer pupi ls wil l be at tending a f ar ewel di nner in his honour next Thur sday. It is a cur ious coinci dence that he day before his r et irement , Mr Page wi l have been t eaching f or a total of f or ty years. Af ter he has r et ir ed, he wil l devote himself to gar dening. For him, this wi l be an ent irely new hobby. But t hi s does not mat er , f or , as he has of ten remar ked, one is never t oo old t o lear n. Leson86 Out of control 失控 As the m an tr ied to swing the speedboat round, the steeringwheel came away in his hands. He waved desperately t o hi s panion, who had been wat er ski ing for the last fi fteen minut es. Both m en had hardly had t ime to r eali ze what was happening when they were t hr own viol ent1y into t he sea. The speedboat had str uck a buoy, but i t cont inued to move very quickl y across t he water. Bot h men had just begun to swi m t owards the shore. when t hey not iced wi th dismay t hat the speedboat was movi ng i n a ci rcle. I t now came str ai ght towar ds t hem at remendous speed. In l ess than a minute, i t roar ed past them only a f ew feet away. Af ter it had passed, t hey swam on as quickl y as t hey could because they knew that the boat would soon r et ur n. They had j ust had enough t i m e t o swi m out of danger when t he boat agai n pl et ed a ci r cl e. On t hi s occasi on, however , i t had sl owed down consi der abl y. The pet r ol had near l y al l been used up. Bef or e l ong, t he noi se dr opped pl et el y and t he boat began t o dr i f t gent l y acr oss t he wat er . Lesson87 A perf ect al i bi 極好的不在犯罪現(xiàn)場(chǎng)的證據(jù) 39。s cl ot hes. Now, dr essed in a blue unif orm and with a r if le over hi s houlder, the pr isoner marched boldly up and down i n front of the camp. He coul d hear shouti ng i n the camp i t sel f . Li ghts were blazi ng and men were r unning here and t her e: they had just discovered that a pri soner had escaped. At that moment , a l ar ge black car wi th four of fi cers inside it, st opped at the camp gat es. The of fi cers got out and t he pr isoner stood t o at tent ion and salut ed as they passed. When they had gone, the dri ver of the car came towards hi m. The man obvi ously want ed t o talk. He was rather e lder ly wit h gr ey hair and clear blue eyes. The pri soner felt sor ry for him, but ther e was not hi ng else he coul d do. As the man came near , t he pri soner knocked hi m t o the gr ound with a sharp bl ow.