【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 on as she saw it , t he woman said s m any t ies.39。 39。And a wom an can39。t have t o many hat s,39。 she answered. Ten minut es lat er we walked out of the shop together. My wif e was wearing a hat t hat looked like a light house ! Lesson42 N ot very musical 并非很懂音樂 As we had had a long walk t hrough one of t he m arket s of Old Delhi, we st oped at a square t o have a rest. Af t er a tim e, we noticed a snakecharm er wit h t wo large baskets at t he ot her side of t he square, so we went t o have a look at him. As soon as he saw us, he picked up a long pipe which was covered wit h coins and opened one of t he baskets. When he began t o play a t une, we had our f irst glim pse of t he snake. It rose out of t he basket and began to folow t he m ovem ent s of t he pi e. We were very m uch surprised when t he snake charm er suddenly began to play j az t unes and m odern pop songs. The snake, however, cont inued t o 39。dance39。 slowly. It obviously could not t el t he dif f erence bet ween Indian m usic and j azz! Lesson43 O ver the South Pol e 飛越南極 In 1929, t hree years af ter his flight over t he Nort h Pole, t he Am erican explorer, R. E. Byrd, sucessf uly flew over t he Sout h Pole f or t he first t ime. Though, at f irst, Byrd and his men were able t o t ake a great many phot ographs of t he mount ains t hat lay below, they soon ran int o serious t rouble. At one point , it seem ed cert ain t hat t heir plane would crash. It could only get over t he m ount ains if it rose t o 10, 000 f eet . Byrd at once ordered his m en t o t hrow out t wo heavy f ood sacks. The plane was t hen able t o rise and it cleared t he m ount ains by 400 f eet . Byrd now knew t hat he would be able t o reach t he Sout h Pole which was 300 m iles away, f or t here were no m ore m ount ains in sight . The aircraf t was able t o f ly over t he endless whit e plains wit hout dif f icult y. Lesson44 Through the forest 穿過森林 M rs Anne St erling did not t hink of t he risk she was t aking when she ran t hrough a f orest af t er t wo m en. They had rushed up t o her 球還是水球？ The Wayle is a smal river t hat cut s across t he park near m y home. I like sit t ing by the Wayle on f ine af ternoons. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on t he river bank as usual. Some children were playing gam es on t he bank and there were some people rowing on the river. Suddenly, one of the children kicked a bal very hard and it went t owards a passing boat . Some people on t he bank caled out t o t he man in t he boat , but he did not hear t hem. The bal st ruck him so hard that he nearly f el int o t he wat er. I turned to look at t he children, but t here weren39。t any in sight : t hey had al run away! The m an laughed when he realized what had happened. He caled out t o t he children and threw t he bal back t o t he bank. Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事 Yest erday af t ernoon Frank Hawkins was teling me about his experiences as a young man. Frank is now the head of a very large business pany, but as a boy he used t o work in a smal shop. It was his j ob t o repair bicycles and at that t ime he used t o work f ourt een hours a day. He saved money f or years and in 1938 he bought a smal workshop of his own. During t he war Frank used t o m ake spare parts f or aeroplanes. At t hat tim e he had two helpers. By the end of the war, t he smal workshop had bee a large fact ory which em ployed seven hundred and twent yeight people. Frank smiled when he rem embered his hard early years and t he long road t o success. He was stil sm ilng when the door opened and his wif e came in. She want ed him t o repair their son39。s bicycle! Lesson32 Shoppi ng made easy 購物變得很方便 People are not so honest as they once were. The t empt ation to steal is greater t han ever beforeespecialy in large shops. A detect ive recent ly watched a weldresed wom an who always went int o a large st ore on Monday mornings. One M onday, t here were fewer people in t he shop t han usual when t he woman cam e in, so it was easier f or t he det ect ive t o wat ch her. The wom an first bought a f ew sm al art icles. Af ter a lit tle t ime, she chose one of t he m ost expensive dreses in t he shop and handed it to an assi t ant who wrapped it up f or her as quickly as possible. Then the wom an sim ply took t he parcel and walked out of the shop wit hout paying. When she was arested, the detective found out that t he shopassi t ant was her daughter. The girl39。 gave39。 her mother a free dres once a week ! l esson33 O ut of the darkness 沖出黑暗 Nearly a week passed before t he girl was able to explain what had happened to her. One aft ernoon she set out from the coast in a sm al boat and was caught in a storm. Towards evening, the boat st ruck a rock and t he girl j umped int o t he sea. Then she swam t o the shore af ter spending the whole night in t he wat er. During that t ime she covered a distance of eight miles. Early next morning, she saw a light ahead. She knew she was near t he shore because t he light was high up on t he clif f s. On ariving at the shore, the girl st ruggled up t he clif f t owards t he light she had seen. That was al she remembered. When she woke up a day later, she f ound herself in hospit al. Lesson34 Qui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been worried al t he week. Last Tuesday he received a let ter from the local police. In the let er he was asked to cal at t he st at ion. Ted wondered why he was want ed by t he police, but he went to the st ation yesterday and now he is not worried any more. At the st ation, he was t old by a smilng policem an that his bicycle had been f ound. Five days ago, the policem an told him , the bicycle was picked up in a smal vilage f our hundred miles away. It is now being sent t o his hom e by t rain. Ted was m ost surprised when he heard t he news. He was am used too, because he nev