【正文】 SOS39。 he shouted: 39。Mr Eames,39。 39。 Leson84 On st ri ke 罷工 Busmen have decided to go on str ike next week. The str ike is due to begi n on Tuesday. No one knows how l ong it wil l ast. The busmen have st at ed that he str ike wil conti nue unt il gener al agr ement is r eached about pay and wor ki ng condit ions. Most peopl e believe that the st ri ke wi l last for at least a wek. Many owners of pri vate cars ar e going t o of fer 39。 Leson77 A successf ul operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egypti an woman who died in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper at ion. The mummy i s that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Temple of Thebes. As ther e wer e str ange mar ks on the Xr ay plates taken of t he mummy, doct ors have been trying to f ind out whet her the woman di ed of arare disease. The onl y way t o do t hi s was to oper at e. The oper at ion, which last ed f or over four hour s, proved to be ver y di f icul t because of t he har d resi n whi ch covered the skin. The doctors r emoved a secti on of the mummy and sent i t o a laboratory. They al so f ound something whi ch t he X ray of the god Duamut ef . This god which has t he head of a cow was normaly placed i nside a mummy. The doct or s have not yet deci ded how t he woman di ed. They fear ed t hat the mummy would f al l t o pi eces when t hey cut it open, but f ortunat el y this has not happened. The mummy succesfull y survi ved the operation. Lesson78 The last one? 最后一枝嗎？ After reading an ar ti cle entit led 39。said Rockwal, 39。s f ishi ng, or eight hours i n a ci nema seei ng the same fil m over and over again, i s usual y as f ar as t hey get . They have al been put to shame by a boy who, whi le playi ng t ruant , t ravel ed 1600 mi les. He hi tch hiked t o Dover and, towards eveni ng, went i nto a boat o fi nd som ewher e to sleep. When he woke up next morning, he discovered that he boat had, in the meantime, tr avel led to Calais. No one noticed the boy as he crept off . From t here, he hit chhiked to Par is in a l or ry. The dri ver gave hi m 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 hi m i nt o the cent re of Pari s as he hoped i t would, but t o Perpi gnan on the FrenchSpanish bor der. There he was picked up by a poli ceman and sent back to England by the local authorit ies. He has sur el y set up a recor d for the thousands of boys who dream of evading school. Lesson74 Out of t he l imeli ght 舞臺之外 An ancient bus stopped by a dry r iver bed and a part y of f amous actors and act reses got off . Dr essed in dark glases and ol d cl ot hes, they had taken special precauti ons so t hat no one should r ecognize them. But as they soon discover ed, disguises can someti mes be too per fe ct . 39。 39。Fancy meet ing you her e !39。m going to.. .39。 I cont inued dri vi ng and af ter some t ime, t he exami ner tapped loudly. Though t he sound could be hear d cl earl y, i t ook me along time t o react. I suddenl y pr essed the brake pedal hard and we were both thr own f or war d. The exami ner looked at me sadly. 39。Now you gut out of here, al l of you!39。 l esson75 SOS 呼救信號 When a l ight passenger pl ane fl ew of f course some time ago, it crashed i n the mountains and it s pil ot was ki led. The only pasenger s, ayoung woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt . I t was the middl e of wi nt er . Snow l ay t hi ck on the ground. The woman knew t hat the near est vi lage was mil es away. When i t grew dark. she t urned a sui tcase into a bed and put the chil dr en i nside it , coveri ng t hem wi th al l the clot hes she could f ind. During the night , i t got t er ri bl y cold. The woman kept as near as she could to t he chi l dr en 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 pl anes pasing overhead and wondered how she could send a si gnal . Then she had an idea. She st amped out the leters39。 I t ol d you yesterday and the day bef or e yest er day,39。 Bert answer ed. 39。 he answered. 39。I t couldn39。m Rockwal Sl inger and t hi s i s Mer li n Greeves.39。Cigar et te Smoki ng and Your。 don39。This is a wonderful place for api ic,39。 Then I 39。Fancy meti ng you here ! 39。s Radica l Pr ogresive Par ty. Af ter the el ctions, Crawley went to the for mer Pri me Minister39。Wel l, I39。t we e mor e of ten ?39。 l esson69 But not murder! 并非謀殺！ I was being test ed f or a dri vi ng l icence f or t he t hi rd ti me. I had been asked t o dr ive in heavy tr af fic and had done so successfull y. 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 pased, I was almost beginning to enj oy my t est. The examiner must have been pleased wi th my per form ance, for he smiled and sai d, 39。 I answered.39。Hul lo, El izabeth,39。l e wi th you,39。 said Glor ia Gleam. 39。t be too har d on us. I 39。 I lit a cigar et te to cal m my ner ves. I smoked with concentr ation and pleasure as I was sure t hat his would be my last cigar et te. For a whole week I did not smoke at al and during this t ime, my wi fe suf fered ter ibly. I had al the usual symptoms of someone gi vi ng up smoking: a bad t emper and an enor mous appet it e. My fr iends kept on off er ing me cigar et tes and ci gars. They made no ef ort to hide thei r amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweet s fr om my pocket. Aft er seven days of this I went to a par ty. Everybody ar ound me was smoking and I felt ext remel y unf ortable. When my ol d fr iend Br ian ur ged me to accept a cigar et te, i t was more than I coul d bear . I t ook one guilt ily, li t i t and smoked wit h sati sf acti on. My wife was deli ght ed that hi ngs had r et ur ned to normal once mor e. Anyway, as Br ian pointed out , i t is the easi est thing in the world t o gi ve up smoking. He himsel f has done it lots of t imes! Leson79 By air 乘飛機(jī) I used to t