【文章內容簡介】 。 Oh, is i t ?39。 sai d the sheri f wi th a sneer. 39。Wel , I 39。m Br inksley Meers, and my ot her name i s Glor ia Gl eam. Now you get out of here f ast ! 39。 l esson75 SO S 呼救信號 When a l ight passenger pl ane fl ew off course some ti me ago, it crashed i n t he mount ains and it s pil ot was ki led. The only pasenger s, a young woman and her two baby daught ers, were unhurt . I t was the middle of wi nter. Snow l ay thi ck on the ground. The woman knew that the nearest vi l age was mil es away. When i t gr ew dark. she tur ned a suit case i nto a bed and put the chil dr en inside i t, cover ing t hem wi th al l the clothes she coul d f i nd. Duri ng the ni ght , i t got t er ibly col d. The wom an kept as near as she could to t he chi ldr en and even t ri ed to get into the case her self , but i t was too s mal . Ear ly ,next m orning she hear d pl anes passing overhead and wonder ed how she could send a signal. Then she had an i dea. She stamped out t he let ters39。 SOS39。 i n t he snow. Fort unat el y, a pi lot saw t he si gnal and sent a message by r adi o t o the nearest t own. It was not l ong bef ore a hel icopter ar ived on the scene to r escue the survi vor s of the pl ane cr ash. Lesson76 Apri l Fool s Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our special news bull et in,39。 said t he voi ce of the tel evi si on announcer ,39。 we ar e taking you t o the m acaroni f ields of Calabri a. Macar oni has been gr own i n thi s ar ea for over si x hundr ed year s. Two of t he leading gr ower s, Gi useppe Mol dova and Ri car do Br abante, tel l m e that they have been expect ing a splendid cr op this year and har vesti ng has begun earl ier than usual . Her e you can see t wo wor ker s who, bet ween them, have j ust f inished cutti ng thr ee car t loads of gol den br own m acar oni stal ks. The whole vi l age has been working day and night gatheri ng and threshing t hi s year 39。s cr op bef ore t he Sept em ber r ains. On the r ight, you can se Mrs Brabant e hersel f. She has been helpi ng her husband f or thir ty year s now. Mrs Br abant e is t alking t o t he manager of the local factory wher e t he cr op is pr ocessed. This l ast scene shows you what wi l happen at t he end of t he har vest : the f amous Cal abr ian m acaroni eati ng pet it on ! Signor Frat el li , the present champion, has won it ever y year since 1961. And that ends our special bul le ti n f or t oday, Thursday, Apr il 1st. We ar e now r eturni ng you to t he studio.39。 Leson77 A successful operat ion 一例成功的手術 The mumm y of an Egypt ian woman who di ed in 800 . has just had an operati on. The m ummy i s that of Shepenmut who was once a si nger i n the Templ e of Thebes. As t her e wer e st r ange mar ks on the X ray pl at es taken of the mummy, doctor s have been tr ying t o fi nd out whet her t he woman died of a r are di sease. The only way to do t his was t o oper at e. The operat ion, which l asted f or over f our hours, proved to be ver y dif fi cul t because of t he har d r esin which cover ed the skin. The doct ors r emoved a secti on of the mum my and sent it t o a l abor at ory. They al so found something whi ch the X r ay of the god Duamutef . Thi s god which has the head of a cow was normal ly pl aced i nsi de a mummy. The doctors have not yet deci ded how the wom an di ed. They f ear ed that the mum my would fal t o pieces when they cut i t open, but f ort unat el y t hi s has not happened. The m um my successf ull y sur vived the operat ion. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter reading an art icl e ent it led 39。Ci garet e Smoking and Your Healt h39。 I l it a cigaret te t o c al m my nerves. I smoked wi th concentr ati on and pl easure as I was sure that his woul d be my l ast cigaret te. For a whol e week I did not smoke at al l and dur ing t hi s ti me, my wi fe suf fer ed ter ibl y. I had al t he usual sympt om s of someone givi ng up sm oki ng: a bad t em per and an enormous appet it e. My f ri ends kept on of fer ing m e ci gar et t es and ci gar s. They m ade no ef f or t t o hi de t hei r am usem ent whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweet s f r om m y pocket . Af t er seven days of t hi s I went t o a par t y. Ever ybody ar ound m e was sm oki ng and I f el t ext r em el y un f or t abl e. When m y ol d f r i end Br i an ur ged m e t o accept a ci gar et t e, i t was m or e t han I c oul d bear . I t ook one gui l t i l y, l i t i t and Geof f r ey l oves. He pr epared t he speech car efull y and went to t he weddi ng wi th Jenny. He had i ncl uded a large number of funny stori es in t he speech and, of cour se, it was a gr eat success. As soon as he had f i ni shed, Jenny tol d him she want ed to go hom e. Geof fr ey was a li t le di sappoi nted by t his but he di d as his daught er asked. On the way home, he asked Jenny i f she had enjoyed the speech. To his surpr ise, she said she hadn39。t . Geof f rey asked her why t hi s was so and she t old hi m t hat she did not li ke to see so many peopl e l aughing at him ! Lesson64 The Channel Tunnel 海峽隧道 I n l858, a French engi neer , Ai me Thome de Gamond, ar ived i n England wi th a pl an for a t wentyone m ile tunnel across the Engli sh Channel. He said that i t would be possi ble t o buil d a platf orm i n the centr e of the Channe l . Thi s platf orm would serve as a por t and a rail way stati on. The t unnel would be wel l vent il at ed if t al l chi mneys wer e buil t above sea level. In 1860, a beter plan was put f or ward by an Engl ishman, Wi li am Low. He suggest ed t hat a doubl e rail way t unnel should be buil t. Thi s woul d solve t he pr oblem of venti lati on, f or if a t r ai n ent ered t hi s t unnel, it woul d draw in f r esh air behind i t. Fort yt wo year s l at er a t unnel was act ual y begun. If , at t he tim e, t he Br it sh had not f ear ed i nvasi on, i t woul d have been pl et ed. Recent l y, t her e has again be