【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 r s, Giuseppe Moldova and Ri cardo Brabante, 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. Her e you can se t wo wor ker s who, between them, have j ust finished cut ti 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 cr op before t he Sept ember ai ns. On the r ight, you can se Mr s Brabante her self. She has been helping her husband for t hirt y years now. Mrs Br abant e i s talking to the 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 i t ever y year since 1961. And that ends our special bull et in f or today, Thursday, Apri l 1st. We are now returning you to t he studio.39。 Leson77 A successf ul operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The m um m y of an Egyptian woman who died i n 800 . has just had an oper at ion. The mummy is t hat of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Templ e of Thebes. As t here were str ange m ar ks on the Xr ay plates taken of t he mummy, doct or s have been t rying to f ind out whether t he woman di ed of a rare disease. The onl y way t o do t hi s was to oper at e. The oper at ion, which lasted for over four hour s, pr oved to be very dif fi cult because of the har d resi n whi ch covered the skin. The doctor s r emoved a secti on of the mummy and sent i t o a laborator y. They also f ound something whi ch t he X ray of t he god Duamut ef . This god whi ch has t he head of a cow was normal y pl aced i nside amummy. The doct or s have not yet deci ded how the woman di ed. They fear ed t hat the mummy would f al l t o pi eces when they cut i t open, but fortunat el y this has not happened. The mummy successf ul ly sur vi ved the operati on. Lesson78 The last one? 最后一枝嗎？ Aft er readi ng an ar ti cl e ntit led 39。Cigarete Smoki ng and Your Healt h39。 I lit a cigar et te to calm my nerves. I smoked with concent ration and pl easur e as I was ure that hi s would be my last cigar et te. For a whole week I did not smoke at al and dur ing this ti me, my wi fe suf fered teri bl y. I had al the usual symptoms of som eone giving up smoking: a bad t emper and an enor mous appet ite. My fr iends kept on off er ing me ci garet es and cigars. They made no ef or t to hide thei r amusement whenever I produced a packet of sweet s f rom my pocket. After seven days of t hi s I went t o a part y. Ever ybody around me was smoki ng and I felt extr emely unfor tabl e. When my old f ri end Bri an urged me to acept a ci garet e, it was more t han I could bear. I took one gui lti ly, l it it and smoked with sat isfact ion. My wi fe was delighted that things had returned to nor mal once more. Anyway, as Bri an pointed out, it is t he easiest thi ng i n the wor ld to give up smoking. He hi mself has done i t l ot s of ti mes! Lesson79 By air 乘飛機(jī) I used to tr avel by air a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My parent s, used to l ive i n South Ameri ca and I used to f ly t here f rom Europe i n the holi days. An ai rhostess would take char ge of me and I never had an unpl easant 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 slowly 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 pl anted on the pl ane. Af ter we had landed, the pl ane was ear ched t hor oughl y. For tunately, nothing was found and f ive hours later we wer e able to t ake off again. Leson80 The Crystal Palace 水晶宮 Perhaps the most extr aordinary bui lding of t he nieenth centur y was the Cryst al Pal ace, which was built in Hyde Park f or t he Gr eat Exhibiti on of 1851. The Cryst al Pal ace was dif ferent fr om al ot her buil di ngs in t he worl d, f or it was made of i ron and glas. I t was one of the bi ggest buil di ngs of al ti me and a l ot of people f rom many countr ies came to se it . A gr eat many goods wer e sent to t he exhi bi tion f rom var ious parts of the wor ld. Ther e was also a gr eat deal of machiner y on displ ay. The most wonderf ul piece of machi ner y on show was Nasmyth39。s st eam hammer. Though in those days, t ravel ing was not as easy as it is today, st eam boats car ri ed t housands of visit or s across t he Channel f rom Eur ope. On ar riving in England, they were taken t o the Cryst al Pal ace by t rain. Ther e wer e si x mil ion visi tors in al , and the pr of it s from t he exhi bi tion were used to build museums and col leges. Lat er , t he Cr ystal Palace was moved to Sout h London. I t remai ned one of the most f amous buil di ngs in t he worl d unt il it was bur nt down in 1936. Lesson81 Escape 脫逃 When he had ki led the guard, the pr isoner of war qui ckly dragged him i nt o the bushes. Working r apidly i n the darkness, he soon changed i nt o the dead man39。s cl ot hes. Now, dr essed in a blue unif orm and with a r if le over hi s houlder, the pr isoner marched boldly up and down i n front of the camp. He coul d hear shouti ng i n the camp i t sel f . Li ghts were blazi ng and men were r unning here and t her e: they had just discovered that a pri soner had escaped. At that moment , a l ar ge black car wi th four of fi cers inside it, st opped at the camp gat es. The of fi cers got out and t he pr isoner stood t o at tent ion and salut ed as they passed. When they had gone, the dr