【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 It was t he mi ddl e of winter. Snow lay thick on the gr ound. The woman knew that he near est vil lage was miles away. When it grew dar k. she t ur ned a suit case i nt o a bed and put t he chi ldren insi de i t, cover ing them wit h al l t he clothes she coul d fi nd. Dur ing the ni ght, it got ter ribly cold. The woman kept as near as she coul d to the chi ldren and even tr ied to get into t he case her self, but i t was too smal . Early , next mor ni ng she hear d pl anes pasing overhead and wondered how she could send a signal . Then she had an i dea. She st amped out the l et ters39。 SOS39。 i n the snow. Fortunat el y, a pilot saw the signal and sent a mesage by radi o to t he nearest own. It was not l ong bef or e a heli copter ar ived on the scene t o rescue t he survivor s of the plane crash. Leson76 Apri l Fools Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our special news bull et in,39。 said the voi ce of the televi si on announcer ,39。 we ar e taki ng you to the macaroni f ields of Cal abri a. Macaroni has been gr own i n this ar ea f or over six hundred year s. Two of the leading grower s, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricar do Br abante, tel me that they have been expect ing a splendi d cr op t hi s year and harvesti ng has begun ear lier than usual. Here you can see t wo wor ker s who, between t hem, have j ust finished cutti ng t hr e car t loads of golden brown macaroni stalks. The whole vil age has been working day and night gather ing and threshi ng t hi s year 39。s crop before t he Sept ember ai ns. On the right, you can se Mr s Brabante her self . She has been helping her husband for thirt y years now. Mr s Br abant e is talking to t he manager of t he l ocal factory wher e the cr op i s pr ocesed. This l ast scene shows you what wil happen at the end of t he har vest : the famous Calabr ian macaroni eat ing pet it on ! Signor Fratel i, the pr esent champi on, has won it ever y year since 1961. And that ends our speci al bul letin f or t oday, Thursday, Apr il 1st. We are now returning you t o the studio.39。 Leson77 A sucessf ul operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The m ummy of an Egypti an woman who died in 800 . has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once asi nger i n the Temple of Thebes. As there wer e st range marks on t he X ray pl at es t aken of the mummy, doctors have been tr yi ng t o fi nd out whet her the woman died of a r ar e di sease. The only way to do this wa s t o operate. The operati on, whi ch lasted for over f our hours, proved t o be very dif ficult because of the hard r esin which cover ed t he skin. The doctors removed a section of t he mummy and sent it to a l aboratory. They also found somet hi ng which the Xr ay of the god Duamutef. This god which has the head of a cow was nor mal ly placed 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 t hey cut it open, but f or tunately t hi s has not happened. The mummy succesfull y 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。Ci gar et te Smoking and Your Heal th39。 I l it a ci garet e to calm my ner ves. I smoked wi th concentr at ion and pleasur e as I was sur e that t hi s would be my last ci gar et te. For a whole wek I di d not smoke at al and dur ing this ti me, my wi f e suf f er ed t er r i bl y. I had al l t he us ual sym pt om s of som eone gi vi ng up sm oki ng: a bad t em per and an enor m ous appet i t e. My f r i ends kept on of f er i ng m e ci gar et t es a nd 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 day s 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 coul 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 epar ed 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 . Geoffr ey asked her why this was so and she tol d hi m that she did not l ike to se so many people laughing at him! Lesson64 The Channel Tunel 海峽隧道 I n l858, a French engineer, Aime Thome de Gamond, ar ived in England with a plan for atwent y one mi le tunnel across t he Engl ish Channel. He said that i t would be possible t o buil d a pl at form in the centr e of the Channel. This pl at form would serve as a por t and a railway st at ion. The tunnel would be wel vent ilated if tal chi mneys were built above sea level. I n 1860, abet er plan was put f or war d by an Engl ishman, Wi li am Low. He suggest ed t hat a doubl e railway tunnel shoul d be bui lt . This woul d solve t he pr obl em of venti lati on, for i f a train entered this tunnel, it woul d dr aw in fr esh air behind it. For tyt wo years later a t unnel was actual ly begun. If , at the ti me, the Bri tish had not f eared invasion, it woul d have been pl et ed. Recentl y, there has again been great i nt er est in the idea of aChannel Tunnel. If i t i s buil t, it wil c onnect Br it ai n to Eur ope f or the fi rst time i n hi st or y. Lesson65 Jumbo versus t he poli ce 小象對警察 Last Chri stmas, t he cir cus owner, Ji mmy Gat es, deci ded to t ake some presents to a chi ldren39。s hospit al . Dr essed up as Fat her Chr istmas and acpani ed by a 39。gua rd of honour 39。 of si x pr et ty girl s, he set of f down the mai n st reet of t he cit y riding a baby elephant cal ed Jumbo. He, shoul d have known t hat the po