【正文】 st r ef used a str ange r equest fr om a busi nesman. The man want ed t o fly t o Rockal l, a l onely i sland in the Atl anti c Ocean, but Captain Fawcet di d not take him because t he t ri p was too danger ous. Lesson30 Foot ball or pol o? 足球還是水球？ The Wayle i s a smal ri ver that cut s across the par k near my home. I li ke sit ing by the Wayle on fi ne aft er noons. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on t he r iver bank as usual. Some chi ldren wer e playi ng games on the bank and ther e wer e some peopl e rowing on t he r iver. Suddenly, one of the chi ldren ki cked a bal ver y hard and it went towar ds a passi ng boat . Some peopl e on t he bank cal led out to the man in the boat, but he di d not hear t hem. The bal l str uck him so har d that he near ly f el l i nt o the wat er . I tur ned to l ook at t he chi ldren, but t here weren39。t axi39。 car was badly damaged and easy t o r ecogni ze. Shor tl y af ter wards, the poli ce st opped t he car and bot h m en wer e ar ested. Lesson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Er na Hart i s going t o swi m across t he Engl ish Channel t omor row. She is goi ng t o set out f rom t he Fr ench coast at fi ve o39。s oper at ion had been succesful and the doctor told him that it had been. He t hen asked when Mr Gi lber t would be al lowed t o go home and the doctor told him that he would have to stay in hospital for another two weeks. Then Dr Mi li ngt on asked the caler if he was a relati ve of the pati ent. 39。Pilatus Por ter39。 gave39。 No Parking39。 time. As a great many peopl e wil be vi sit ing the count ry, the gover nment wi l be building new hotels, an immense stadi um, and a f ine new swimmi ng pool . 39。t any in sight : t hey had al run away! The man laughed when he realized what had happened. He caled out to t he children and t hr ew the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Suces st ory 成功者的故事 Yesterday af ternoon Frank Hawkins was tel ing me about his exper iences as a young man. Fr ank is now the head of a ver y large business pany, but as a boy he used t o wor k in a smal shop. I t was his job to r epai r bi cycles and at that ime he used t o wor k fourteen hours a day. He saved money for year s and in 1938 he bought asmal workshop of hi s own. Duri ng t he war Frank used to make spar e part s for aeroplanes. At that ti me he had t wo helpers. By t he end of the war , the smal wor k shop had bee a l ar ge f actor y whi ch empl oyed seven hundred and twentyeight people. Frank smi led when he r emember ed his hard ear ly years and t he l ong road to success. He was stil l smil ing when the door opened and his wif e came in. She want ed him to repai r t heir son39。 signs out si de his gat e, but these have not had any ef fect . Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gat e. It is one of the ugl iest faces I have ever sen. I asked him what it was and he told me t hat it was Medusa, the Gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l turn motori st s t o st one. But none of them has been tur ned to stone yet! Leson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車！ Captain Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new ser vi ce. The 39。 her mot her a free dres once awek ! l esson33 Out of the darknes 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed bef or e the gi rl was able to expl ai n what had happened t o her. One aft er noon she set out fr om the coast in a sm al l boat and was caught i n a st orm . Towards eveni ng, t he boat st r uck a rock and t he gir l jum ped i nt o t he sea. Then she swam t o the shore af ter spending the whol e ni ght i n the wat er . Duri ng t hat tim e she cover ed a distance of ei ght mi les. Ear ly next m or ni ng, she saw a l ight ahead. She knew she was near the shor e because t he l ight was hi gh up on t he cli f s. On ar ri vi ng at the shore, t he gir l str uggled up t he cli f towar ds t he l ight she had seen. That was al l she rem embered. When she woke up a day lat er, she found her self i n hospit al . Leson34 Q ui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been wor ri ed al t he week. Last Tuesday he r eceived a l et ter fr om t he local poli ce. In t he l et er he was asked to cal at he st ati on. Ted wondered why he was want ed by the poli ce, but he went t o the st ati on yest er day and now he i s not wor ri ed any m or e. At he st ati on, he was told by a smi li ng pol iceman t hat his bicycl e had been f ound. Fi ve days ago, t he poli cem an t ol d him , t he bicycl e was pi cked up i n a sm al l vi l age four hundred m il es away. It is now being sent t o hi s hom e by t rai n. Ted was m ost surpri sed when he hear d the news. He was am used t oo, because he never expect ed t he bicycl e t o be f ound. I t was st ol en t wenty year s ago when Ted was a boy of f if teen ! Lesson35 Stop t hi ef! 捉賊！ Rov Trent on used t o dr ive a taxi . A short whi le ago, however, he becam e a bus dri ver and he was not regret ed it . He i s f i nding hi s new work f ar more excit ing. When he was dr iving al ong Cat f or d St reet recentl y, he saw t wo t hi eves r ush out of a shop and r un t owar ds a wait ng car. One of them was car rying a bag f ul of m oney. Roy acted qui ckly and dr ove the bus st raight at he t hi eves. The one wi th t he money got such a fr ight t hat he dropped the bag. As t he t hi eves were t rying to get away i n t hei r car , Roy dr ove hi s bus into t he back of i t. Whil e t he bat tered car was m oving away, Roy st opped his bus and t el ephoned the poli ce. The t hi eves39。. Workers wil l have pl et ed t he new roads by the end of t hi s year . By t he end of next year, they wi l have finished work on the new stadium. The fi ne moder n buil di ngs have been desi gned by Kurt Gunt er . Ever ybody wil be wat ching anxiously as the new buildings go up. We ar e al ver y excited and are l ooking forward t o the Ol ympi c Games because they have never been held before in t his count ry. Leson38 Everyt hi ng except he weather 惟獨(dú)沒有考慮到天氣 My old f