【正文】 de i t, cover ing them with al the cl othes she could f ind. Duri ng t he night, it got ter ibly col d. The woman kept as near as she could t o the chil dr en and even t ri ed t o get into the case hersel f, but it was t oo smal. Ear ly , next morning she heard planes passi ng over head and wondered how she coul d send a signal. Then she had an i dea. She st amped out the leters39。Oh, is it ?39。 Bri nksley Mers agreed. 39。s always pl enty t o read i n the 39。r e not busy doi ng anyt hi ng, ar e you ?39。 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 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 be t oo hard on us. I39。 sai d Gloria Gl eam. 39。l e wi th you,39。 Hul lo, El izabet h, 39。s hospit al. Dr essed up as Fat her Chr istma s and acpanied by a 39。 I answered. 39。 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。t we e more oft en ?39。Wel, I 39。Jumbo must wei gh a f ew tons,39。 39。Mr Eames,39。 he shout ed: 39。 SOS39。 39。t be bet ter, Glori a, 39。 Ther e39。 I was j ust wonder ing how t o spend the morningunti l I saw you. You39。Ci gar et e Smoking and Your Heal th39。 don39。This is a wonderf ul place f or a pii c, 39。 Then I 39。Fancy meti ng you here ! 39。guard of honour39。 I 39。Just one more thing, Mr Eames. Let us suppose that a chi ld suddenly crosses t he r oad in f ront of you. As soon as I t ap on the window, I want the car to be stopped immediately.39。 Meanwhile, two other act or s, Rockwal l Sli nger and Merli n Greeves, had car ried two l ar ge f ood basket s t o a shady spot under some t rees. When they had al l made themselves f or tabl e, a stranger appeared. He looked ver y angry. 39。m Bri nksley Mers, and my other name i s Gl or ia Gl eam. Now you get out of her e fast !39。 said a pol iceman afterwards, 39。Woul d you mi nd my ing with you ?39。 he said, i n a mour nf ul voi ce,39。 I 39。 i n the snow. Fortunat el y, a pilot saw t he signal and sent a mesage by radio to t he near est own. It was not l ong bef or e a heli copter ar ived on t he scene t o rescue the survivor s of t he plane crash. Lesson76 Apri l Fools Day 愚人節(jié) 39。m Rockwal Slinger and t hi s is Merl in Greeves. 39。 It couldn39。 he answered. 39。 Bert answer ed. 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 i n the Temple of Thebes. As ther e wer e st range mar ks on the Xr ay pl ates taken of the mummy, doctors have been trying t o find out whet her the woman died of a rare disease. The only way t o do this was t o oper ate. The oper ation, which last ed f or over four hour s, proved to be ver y di f icul t because of t he hard r esin which cover ed t he ski n. The doct or s removed a sect ion of t he mummy and sent it to a labor at or y. They also found something which the Xray of the god Duamutef. Thi s god whi ch has the head of a cow was normal y pl aced insi de a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They f eared that he mummy woul d fal to pieces when the y cut it open, but for tunately t hi s has not happened. The mummy succesfully survived t he oper at ion. Leson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter eading an art icle ent itl ed 39。sai d Rockwal ,39。s f ishi ng, or eight hours i n a ci nema seei ng t he same fil m over and over again, i s