【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 ioned in a newspaper , the number of visit or s to Fri nl ey has now increas ed. The tr e was pl anted near a church fi ty years ago, but it is only in r ecent years that i t has gained an evi l r eputati on. It is said t hat if anyone touches t he t ree, he wil have bad l uck。 i f he pi cks a leaf , he wil l die. Many vil agers bel ieve t hat the t ree has already claimed a number of vi ct ims. The vi car has been asked to have the tr e cut down, but so far he has ref used. He has pointed out that he t ree is auseful sour ce of ine as t ouri st s have been ing fr om al l parts of the count ry to se i t. In spi te of al l t hat has been said, t he t ouri st s have been picking leaves and cutt ing thei r names on the tr et runk. So f ar, not one of t hem has been str uck down by sudden death! Leson59 In or out ？ 進(jìn)來(lái)還是出去？ Our dog, Rex, used to sit out si de our f ront gat e and bar k. Ever y time he wanted to e into the gar den he would bark unt il someone opened the gat e. As the neighbours plained of the noi se, my husband spent weeks tr ai ni ng hi m to pres his paw on t he l at ch t o let himself in. Rex soon became an exper t at openi ng t he gate. However, when I was goi ng out shopping last week, I noticed hi m in t he gar den near the gate. Thi s t ime he was bar ki ng so that someone would let hi m out ! Since t hen, he has devel oped another bad habi t. As soon as he opens the gate f rom t he outside, he es i nt o the garden and wai ts unt il the gate shuts. Then he sit s and barks unt il someone lets him out. After this he immedi at el y lets himself i n and begins barking again. Yesterday my husband r emoved t he gat e and Rex got so annoyed we have not seen him si nce. Leson60 The f ut ure 卜算未來(lái) At avi l age fair , I decided to visi t a f ortune teler cal ed Madam Bel linsky. I went i nt o her tent and she t ol d me to sit down. Af ter I had gi ven her some money, she l ooked i nt o a cr ystal bal and sai d: 39。A relation of your s is i ng t o see you. She wil be ar ri vi ng t hi s evening and i nt ends to st ay f or a f ew days. The moment you l eave t hi s tent , you wil get a big sur pr ise. A woman you know wel wil rush towar ds you. She wi l speak to you and then she wil lead you away f rom this place. That is al l.39。 As soon as I went out side, I f or got al l about Madam Beli nsky because my wif e hur ried towards me. 39。Where have you been hiding ?39。 she asked i mpati ent ly. 39。Your si ster wi l be here in l ess than an hour and we must be at the st at ion to meet her . We ar e l at e al ready.39。 As she walked away, I foll owed her out of t he f ai r. Leson61 Trouble wit h the Huble 哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡的困境 In f ut ur e, ast ronauts wil be requi red to descend from a spaceship while i t i s sti l in space and to r et ur n to it . The abil it y to do this wil l be necessary i n future f li ghts to distant pla s. Scientists are now tr yi ng t o di scover if this is possible. The spaceship Astra which left the ear th a short ti me ago, wi l be t ravel ing three hundr ed mi les into space. At a cer tain point, the Astr a wil l stop for a shor t time and an ast ronaut wi l at tempt t o leave the st ati onary spaceshi p and then return t o it. We shal not know whether the exper iment has been successf ul unt il we have received a r adio messa ge. The fi rst message i s expected to ari ve at 7 o39。cl ock this evening. By that ime, t he Astr a wi l have been flying thr ough space for seventeen hour s and wil l have cir cl ed the ear th a great many t imes. When t he f ir st radio mesages have been r eceived, the resul ts of t he t rip wi l be announced immedi at el y. Lesson62 Af ter t he fire 大火之后 Fir emen had been fi ghti ng t he f or est fi re for nearly t hree weeks bef ore they coul d get it under cont rol. A short ti me before, gr eat tr es had cover ed t he countr yside for mil es around. Now, smoke sti l rose up fr om the war m ground over t he desolate hi l s. Winter was ing on and t he hil ls thr eatened the sur rounding vi lages wi th destruction, f or heavy rain would not onl y wash away the soil but woul d cause ser ious f loods as wel . When the fi re had at last been put out, the for est author it es ordered sever al tons of a special type of gras sed whi ch would grow qui ckly. The sed was spr ayed over t he gr ound in huge quant it ies by aer oplanes. The pl anes had been pl anti ng sed f or nearl y a month when it began to r ain. By then, however , i n many places the gr ass had already t aken r oot . I n pl ace of t he great rees which had been gr owing ther e for cent ur ies, pat ches of gr en had begun to appear i n the bl ackened soi l. Leson63 She was not am used 她并不覺(jué)得好笑 Geof f r ey Ham pden has a l ar ge ci r cl e of f r i ends and i s ver y popul ar at par t i es. Ever ybody adm i r es hi m f or hi s f i ne sense of hu m or ever ybody, t hat i s, except hi s si x year ol d daught er , Jenny. Recent l y, one of Geof f r ey39。s cl osest f r i ends asked hi m t o m ake a speech at a weddi ng r ecept i on. Thi s i s t he sor t of t hi ng t hat opened one of the baskets. When he began to play a tune, we had our f irst gl impse of the snake. I t rose out of the basket and began to f ollow t he movement s of the pipe. We were ver y much sur pr ised when the snake charmer suddenl y began t o pl ay j azz tunes and moder n pop songs. The snake, however, conti nued to 39。dance39。 sl owl y. I t obvi ously could not t el l t he dif ference bet wen Indian music and j azz! Lesson43 Over the South Pole 飛越南極 In 1929, thr e years aft er his fl ight over the Nor th Pole, t he Ameri can explorer, R. E. Byr d, successf ul ly f lew over the South Pol e for the f ir st ti me. Though, at f irst, Byrd and his men wer e able t o take a great many phot ogr aphs of the mountains that lay bel ow, they soon r an i nt o seri ous tr ouble. At one point, it seemed cer tain that heir pla