【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 e f el that she i s ure to succed. Er na39。s father wi l set out with her i n a smal boat. Mr Har t has trained hi s daughter for year s. Tomor row he wi l be watching her anxiously as she swi ms the long distance to England. Er na ai r por t was built dur ing the war , but for some reason i t coul d not be used t hen. Last year, however, it came i nt o use. Over a hundred peopl e must have been dri ven away f rom their homes by t he noise. I am one of t he f ew people l ef t. Someti mes I think this house wil be knocked down by a pasing pl ane. I have been of fered a large sum of money to go away, but I am det er mined t o st ay here. Ever ybody says I must be mad and t hey are probably ri ght. Lesson22 A gl ass envel ope 玻璃信封 My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of r eceiving a leter fr om a gi rl of her own age in Holl and. Last year, we wer e tr avel ling acr oss the Channel and Jane put a pi ece of paper wi th her name and addres on it into a bot tle. She thr ew t he bottl e into t he sea. She never t hought of it again, but ten months later, she recei ved a let er fr om a gi rl in Holl and. Both gir ls wri te to each other r egularly now. However, they have deci ded to use t he post offi ce. Let er s wil cost a lit t1e mor e, but they wil cer tainly tr avel f aster. Leson23 A new house 新居 I had a l et ter f rom my sister yest er day. She l ives i n Niger ia. I n her let er , she sai d that she would e t o England next year. If she es, she wi l get a surpri se. We ar e now li vi ng in a beaut if ul new house in t he countr y. Work on it had begun bef or e my si st er left . The house was pleted f ive mont hs ago. In my l et ter, I t ol d her that she coul d stay wit h us. The house has many large rooms and ther e is a lovel y garden. It is a ver y modern house, so it looks st range t o some peopl e. It must be the only moder n house in t he distr ict. Leson24 It coul d be worse 不幸中之萬(wàn)幸 I entered the hot el manager39。s of fice and sat down. I had just lost amp。50 and I felt ver y upset .39。 I l ef t he money i n my room,39。 I sai d, 39。and it39。s not t here now.39。 The manager was sympathet ic, but he could do not hi ng. 39。Ever yone39。s l osing money these days, 39。 he said. He start ed t o plain about t hi s wicked wor ld but was inter upted by a knock at he door . A gi rl came in and put an envelope on his desk. I t cont ai ned amp。5o. 39。I found t hi s outside this gentl eman39。s room39。 she sai d. 39。Wel ,39。 I sai d to t he manager , 39。t her e is st il l some honest y in t hi s wor ld !39。 leson25 Do the Engli sh speak Engl ish? 英國(guó)人講的是英語(yǔ)嗎？ I ar ived i n London at l ast. The r ai lway st at ion was big, black and dar k. I di d not know the way to my hot el , so I asked a por ter. I not only spoke Engli sh ver y carefull y, but ver y clear ly as wel . The port er , however, could not understand me。 I r epeat ed my questi on several t imes and at last he under st ood. He answered me, but he spoke nei ther slowly nor clear ly. 39。I am a f or ei gner, 39。 I said. Then he spoke sl owl y, but I could not understand him. My t eacher never spoke Engl ish like that! The porter and I looked at each ot her and smiled. Then he said somet hi ng and I understood it. 39。You39。l soon lear n Engli sh!39。 he said. I wonder. In Engl and, each man speaks a di fe rent l anguage. The Engl ish under st and each ot her, but I don39。t under st and them ! Do they speak Engli sh ? leson26 The best art cri tics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an art student and I paint a l ot of pictures. Many peopl e pr et end that t hey under st and modern art . They always t el l you what a pi ct ur e is 39。about39。. Of course, many pictures ar c not 39。about39。 anyt hi ng. They are just pret y pat er ns. We like them in t he same way that we l ike pr et ty cur tain material. I think that young chi ldren of ten appreci at e moder n pictures beter than anyone el se. They noti ce more. My si ster is onl y seven, but she al ways tels me whet her my pi ct ur es are good or not. She came into my r oom yesterday. 39。 What ar e you doi ng ?39。 she asked. 39。 I39。m hanging this picture on the wal l,39。 I answered. 39。I t39。s a new one. Do you li ke i t ?39。 She looked at it crit ical ly f or a moment. 39。 I t39。s al ri ght, 39。 she sai d, 39。but i sn39。t it upsidedown ?39。 I l ooked at i t agai n. She was ri ght! I t was! Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜 Late i n the af ternoon, t he boys put up their tent i n the middl e of a fi el d. As soon as thi s was done, they cooked a meal over an open fi re. They wer e al hungry and t he f ood smel t good. Aft er a wonder ful meal, they told st ories and sang songs by the camp fi re. But some ti me later i t began to r ai n. The boys f el t t i r ed so t hey pet out the fi re and crept i nt o thei r tent . Thei r sleepi ngbags were warm and fort able, so t hey al l slept soundly. I n the middl e of t he night, two boys woke up and began shouti ng. The tent was full of water! They al leapt out of t heir sleepingbags and hur ri ed outsi de. It was r ai ni ng heavil y and they found that a str eam had f ormed in the fi el d. The str eam wound i ts way across t he f ield and t hen fl owed ri ght under their tent ! Leson28 No parking 禁止停車(chē) Jasper Whi te is one of those rar e people who bel ieves in ancient myths. He has j ust bought a new house i n the ci ty, but ever since he moved in, he has had t roubl e wi th motori st s. when he returns home at night, he always f inds t hat someone has par ked a car outside his gate. Because of this, he has not been abl e to get his own car i nt o hi s garage even once. Jasper has put up39。 No Parking39。 signs out si de his gat e, but t hese have not had any ef fect . Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gat e. It is one of the ugl iest faces I have ever sen. I asked him what it was and he told me t hat it was Medusa, the Gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l