【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 n a mour nf ul voice,39。 you have just kiled t hat child ! 39。 lesson70 Red f or danger 危險(xiǎn)的紅色 During a bulf ight, a drunk sudenly wander ed int o t he middle of the ring. The crowd began t o shout , but he dr unk was unawar e of t he danger. The bul was busy wit h t he matador at he tim e, but it suddenly caught sight of t he dr unk who was shouting r ude r emarks and waving a r ed cap. Aparently sensitve t o cr it icsm, the bul f or got al about the matador and char ged at he dr unk. The cr owd sudenly gr ew quiet. The dr unk, however, seem ed quite sure of himself. When t he bul got close t o him , he clumsily st epped aside t o let it pass. The crowd br oke int o cheer s and the drunk bowed. By t his t im e, however , t hr ee m en had e into t he r ing and t hey quickly draged t he dr unk t o safety. Even t he bul seemed t o feel sor y f or him, for it looked on sympat heticaly until he drunk was out of t he way before once more t urning it s at ent ion t o the matador . Lesson71 A f amous clock 一個(gè)著名的大鐘 When you vist London, one of the fir st hings you wil see is Big Ben, t he f amous clock which can be hear d al over t he world on t he B. B. C. If t he Houses of Parliam ent had hot been burned down in 1834, t he gr eat clock would never have been erect ed. Big Ben t akes it s name f rom Sir Benjamin Hal who was r esponsible f or t he making of the clock when t he new Houses of Par liament were being built . I t is not only of immense size, but is ext remely acur at e as well. Of icials fr om Gr eenwich Observat ory have the clock checked t wice a day. On t he B. B. C. you can hear t he clock when it is act ualy str iking because m icr ophones are connected to t he clock t ower . Big Ben has rar ely gone wr ong. Once, however , it f ailed t o give t he cor rect tim e. A paint er who had been wor king on t he tower hung a pot of paint on one of t he hands and slowed it down ! Lesson72 A car called Bluebir d “藍(lán)鳥(niǎo)”汽車(chē) The great r acing driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, was t he f ir st man to dr ive at over 300 miles per hour . He set up a new world r ecor d in September 1935 at Bonnevile Salt Flat s, Utah. Bluebir d, t he car he was dr iving, had been specialy built f or him. I t was over 30 f eet in lengt h and had a 2500 horse power engine. Although Campbell r eached a speed of over 304 miles per hour, he had gr eat dif icult y in cont roling t he car because a t yr e bur st dur ing t he f ir st r un. Af ter his at tempt, Campbell was disapointed to learn t hat his average speed had been 299 m iles per hour. However , a f ew days lat er, he was told t hat am istake had been m ade. His aver age speed had been 301 miles per hour. Since that ime, r acing drivers have r eached speeds of over 400 miles an hour . Folowing his f at her 39。s footsteps many ear s lat er, Sir M alcolm39。s son, Donald, also set up a wor ld recor d. Like his f at her , he was dr iving a car caled Bluebir d. Lesson73 The r ecordholder 紀(jì)錄保持者 Lit tle boys who play t r uant f rom school are unimaginative. A quiet day39。s fishing, or eight hours in a cinema seeing t he same f ilm over and over again, is usualy as far as t hey get . They have al been put to shame by a boy who, while playing t ruant, r aveled 1600 miles. He hitch hiked t o Dover and, t owar ds evening, went int o a boat t o f ind somewher e t o sleep. When he woke up next m or ni g, he discover ed t hat t he boat had, in t he meant ime, t raveled t o Cal is. No one not iced t he boy as he cr ept of. From t her e, he hit ch hiked to Paris in a lor ry. The driver gave him a f ew biscuit s and a cup of cofee and lef t him just outside t he cit y. The next car t he boy st opped did not ake him int o the centr e of Paris as he hoped it would, but o Per pignan on t he Fr ench Spanish bor der . Ther e he was picked up by a policeman and sent back t o England by t he local authorit ies. He has sur ely set up a recor d for t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading school. Lesson74 Out of t he lim elight 舞臺(tái)之外 An ancient bus stoped by a dr y r iver bed and a par ty of amous actor s and actr esses got of . Dr essed in dark glases and old clot hes, they had t aken special pr ecaut ions so t hat no one should r ecognize t hem. But as they soon discovered, disguises can somet imes be t oo perf ect. 39。This is a wonderf ul place f or a piic, 39。 said Glor ia Gleam . 39。I t couldn39。t be bet t er , Glor ia,39。 Br inksley M eer s agreed. 39。No newspaper men, no f ilm f ans! Why don39。t we e m ore oft en ?39。 M eanwhile, t wo other actors, Rockwal Slinger and Merlin Gr eeves, had car ried t wo lar ge f ood baskets to a shady spot under some t rees. When t hey had al m ade t hemselves fort able, a st ranger appeared. He looked very angry. 39。Now you gut out of here, al of you! 39。 he shouted: 39。I 39。m sherif f here. Do you see that notice ? It says No Camping in case you can39。t r ead !39。Look, sher if , 39。said Rockwal, 39。 don39。t be too har d on us. I 39。m Rockwal Slinger and t his is Merlin Gr eeves. 39。 Oh, is it ?39。 said t he sherif f wit h a sneer. 39。Well, I 39。m Br inksley M eers, and my other name is Glor ia Gleam. Now you get out of here fast ! 39。 lesson75 SOS 呼救信號(hào) When alight pasenger plane f lew of course some t ime ago, it cr ashed in t he m ountains and it s pilot was kiled. The only pasenger s, a young woman and her t wo baby daughter s, wer e unhurt . I t was t he middle of wint er . Snow lay t hick on the ground. The wom an knew t hat t he near est vilage was miles away. When it grew dar k. she t ur ned a suit case into a bed and put t he children inside it , cover ing t hem wit h al t he clothes she could find. Dur ing t he night , it got er ribly cold. The woman kept as near as he could t o t he childr en and even t r ied t o get into t he case herself , but i was t o smal. Ear ly ,next morning she heard planes pasing overhe