【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 . 39。 No, 39。 t he patient answer ed, 39。 I am Mr John Gil ber t. 39。 Le sson40 Food and t alk 進(jìn)餐與交談 Last week at a di nner par ty, the host es asked me to si t next to Mr s Rumbold. Mr s Rumbold was a large, unsmi li ng lady i n a t ight bl ack dr es. She did not even l ook up when I took m y seat besi de her . Her eyes were f ixed on her plate and i n a short ti me, she was busy eat ing. I tr ied t o make conver sati on. 39。 A new play i s ing t o The Globe soon, 39。 I said. 39。Wil l you be seei ng it ?39。 39。 No,39。 she answer ed. 39。Wi l you be spending your holi days abroad thi s year ?39。 I asked. 39。 No,39。 she answered. 39。 Wil l you be st ayi ng in Engl and?39。 I asked. 39。 No,39。 she answer ed. I n despai r , I asked her whet her she was enj oyi ng her di nner . 39。 Young man,39。 she answer ed, 39。 i f you at e mor e and talked l ess, we would both enj oy our di nner ! 39。 l esson41 Do you cal l that a hat ? 你把那個(gè)叫帽子嗎？ 39。Do you cal t hat a hat ?39。 I sai d t o m y wi f e. 39。You needn39。t be so r ude about i t , 39。 m y wi f e answer ed as she l ooked at her sel f i n t he m i r r or . I sat down on one of t hose m oder n chai r s wi t h hol es i n i t and wai t ed. We had been i n t he hat shop f or hal f a n hour and m y wi f e was st i l l i n f r ont of t he m i r r or . 39。 We m ust n39。t buy t hi ngs we don39。t need, 39。 I r em ar ked suddenl y. I r egr et t ed sayi ng i t al m ost at once. 39。You needn39。t have sai d t hat , 39。 m y wi f e answer ed. 39。 I need not r em i nd you of t hat t er r i bl e t i e you bought yest er day. 39。 39。 I f i nd i t beaut i f ul , 39。 I sai d. 39。A m an can never have t oo t hey under stand modern ar t. They always tel l you what a pi ct ure i s 39。about 39。. Of course, m any pi ct ures arc not 39。about39。 anyt hing. They ar e just pr et y pat ter ns. We li ke them i n t he same way that we li ke pret y curt ai n mat er ial . I t hink t hat young chi ldr en of ten appreciat e moder n pi ct ures bet ter t han anyone el se. They notice m ore. My sist er i s only seven, but she always t el ls m e whet her m y pict ur es ar e good or not . She came into my r oom yest er day. 39。 What are you doing ?39。 she asked. 39。 I 39。m hanging t his pict ure on t he wal ,39。 I answered. 39。I t39。s a new one. Do you l ike i t ?39。 She l ooked at it cri ti cal ly f or a moment. 39。 I t39。s al ri ght,39。 she sai d, 39。but i sn39。t i t upside down ?39。 I l ooked at it agai n. She was r ight ! It was! Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜 Late in t he af ter noon, the boys put up their t ent in the mi ddle of a f ield. As soon as this was done, they cooked a meal over an open fi re. They were al l hungr y and the f ood smel t good. Aft er a wonder ful meal, t hey t old st or ies and sang songs by the camp f ir e. But some t ime later it began to r ain. The boys f elt ti red so t hey pet out the f ir e and cr ept into their t ent . Their sl eping bags were warm and fort able, so t hey al l sl ept soundl y. I n t he middl e of the night, t wo boys woke up and began shout ing. The tent was full of wat er ! They al l leapt out of their sleepingbags and hur ri ed out side. I t was rai ning heavi ly and t hey f ound that a st r eam had form ed in t he fi eld. The st ream wound it s way acr oss t he fi eld and t hen f lowed r ight under t hei r tent! Lesson28 No parking 禁止停車 Jasper Whit e i s one of t hose r ar e peopl e who beli eves i n anci ent myt hs. He has j ust bought a new house in t he ci ty, but ever since he moved in, he has had t rouble wi t h motor ists. when he ret ur ns home at ni ght, he always fi nds that someone has par ked a car outside hi s gat e. Because of t hi s, he has not been able t o get hi s own car i nto hi s gar age even once. Jasper has put up39。 No Parking39。 si gns out si de his gate, but t hese have not had any ef ect . Now he has put an ugly st one head over the gate. It i s one of t he ugl iest faces I have ever seen. I asked him what it was and he tol d me t hat i t was Medusa, the Gor gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l l t urn motor ists t o stone. But none of them has been t urned t o st one yet ! Lesson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車！ Captain Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new ser vice. The 39。t axi39。 is a sm al l Swiss aer oplane cal led a 39。Pi l at us Por ter 39。. This wonderf ul pl ane can car y seven passenger s. The m ost surpri sing t hi ng about i t, however , i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water , or even on a ploughed fi el d. Capt ain Fawcet39。s fi rst pasenger was a doctor who f lew f r om Bi rm ingham to a lonely vi l age i n t he Welsh mountai ns. Since t hen, Capt ain Fawcet has fl own pasenger s to m any unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lat s and on another occasion, he landed in a deser ted car par k. Capt ain Fawcet has just r efused a st r ange r equest f rom a busi nessman. The man wanted to fl y to Rockal , a lonely i sland in the At lanti c Ocean, but Capt ai n Fawcet t did not take him because the t ri p was too danger ous. Leson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a smal l r iver that cut s acr oss the park near m y hom e. I l ike sit ting by the Wayl e on fi ne aft er noons. It was war m l ast Sunday, so I went and sat on the r iver bank as usual . Som e chi ldr en were pl ayi ng gam es on t he bank and t her e wer e som e people rowi ng on the r iver. Suddenl y, one of the chil dren ki cked a bal very har d and it went towar ds a passing boat . Some peopl e on the bank cal led out to the man i n t he boat, but he did not hear t hem . The bal str uck him so har d that he near ly fel i nt o t he water. I t ur ned to l ook at he childr en, but there wer en39。t any in sight : t hey had al l run away! The man laughed when he reali zed what had happened. He cal ed out t o t he chi ldren and t hrew t he bal back t o t he