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【正文】 g not hi ng at al l ! Lesson21 Mad or not ? 是不是瘋了？ Aeroplanes ar e slowl y dri ving me mad. I l ive near an ai rport and pasi ng pl anes can be hear d night and day. The air por t was built dur ing t he war , but f or som e reason i t coul d not be used then. Last year , however, i t came i nto use. Over a hundred people must have been dri ven away fr om t hei r hom es by the noise. I am one of t he few people left . Som et im es I t hink t his house wi l l be knocked down by a passing pl ane. I have been off er ed a l ar ge sum of money to go away, but I am determ ined to st ay her e. Ever ybody says I m ust be mad and t hey ar e probabl y r ight. Lesson22 A gl ass envelope 玻璃信封 My daught er, Jane, never dreamed of receiving a let er f r om a gi rl of her own age i n Hol land. Last year, we were t ravel ing a cross the Channel and Jane put a piece of paper wi th her name and addr ess on i t i nto a bot tl e. She t hr ew t he bot tl e int o t he sea. She never t hought of i t agai n, but ten m ont hs later, she r eceived a l et ter f rom a gir l in Hol land. Bot h gir ls wri te t o each ot her r egul arl y now. However , t hey have decided to use t he post off ice. Let ter s wil l cost a li t 1e mor e, but they wi l cer tai nly t ravel f ast er. Lesson23 A new house 新居 I had a l et ter f rom my sister yest erday. She l ives in Nigeri a. I n her let er, she said that she woul d e to Engl and next year . If she es, she wi l l get a sur pri se. We are now l ivi ng in a beauti ful new house i n t he countr y. Work on it had begun bef or e my si st er left . The house was pleted f ive m ont hs ago. In my l et ter , I t old her that she could st ay wit h us. The house has m any large r ooms and there i s a l ovely gar den. I t is a very moder n house, so it l ooks str ange t o som e peopl e. I t must be t he onl y modern house in the dist ri ct . Lesson24 It could be worse 不幸中之萬幸 I ent ered t he hot el m anager39。s of fi ce and sat down. I had j ust lost amp。50 and I f el t ver y upset. 39。 I left t he money in m y room, 39。 I said, 39。and i t39。s not ther e now. 39。 The manager was sympat het ic, but he could do not hi ng. 39。Ever yone39。s l osi ng money these days,39。 he sai d. He st art ed t o pl ain about t his wi cked wor l d but was i nter upted by a knock at he door . A gi rl came i n and put an envel ope on hi s desk. It contained amp。5o. 39。I f ound this out si de this gentl eman39。s room39。 she said. 39。Wel ,39。 I sai d to the manager , 39。ther e is sti l some honesty in t his wor ld ! 39。 leson25 Do t he Engli sh speak Engl ish? 英國(guó)人講的是英語嗎？ I ar ri ved in London at last . The rail way stati on was big, black and dar k. I di d not know the way t o my hot el , so I asked a port er . I not only spoke Engli sh ver y car eful ly, but very cl ear ly as wel l. The port er , however , could not under stand me。 I repeat ed my quest ion sever al tim es and at last he underst ood. He answer ed me, but he spoke nei ther sl owly nor clearl y. 39。I am a f orei gner ,39。 I sai d. Then he spoke slowl y, but I could not under st and hi m. My teacher never spoke Engli sh li ke that! The port er and I l ooked at each ot her and smi led. Then he said somethi ng and I understood i t. 39。You39。l l soon l ear n Engli sh! 39。 he said. I wonder . In Engl and, each man speaks a dif ferent language. The Engl ish understand each ot her , but I don39。t under st and them ! Do they speak Engli sh ? lesson26 The best art cri t i cs 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an ar t student and I pai nt a lot of pictur es. Many peopl e pret end t hat hey underst and m oder n art . They al ways t el you what a pi ctur e is 39。about39。. Of course, many pictur es ar c not 39。about 39。 anything. They ar e j ust pret ty pat erns. We l ike t hem in the sam e way that we l ike pr et ty cur tain materi al. I thi nk that young chil dr en oft en appr eci at e modern pi ctur es bet er than anyone else. They noti ce more. My si ster is only seven, but she al ways t el s me whether my pi ct ures are good or not. She cam e int o my r oom yesterday. 39。 What ar e you doi ng ?39。 she asked. 39。 I 39。m hangi ng thi s pi cture on the wal l,39。 I answer ed. 39。I t 39。s a new one. Do you li ke it ?39。 She looked at i t cr it ical y for a m om ent .39。 It 39。s al r ight, 39。 she said, 39。but isn39。t it upsi de down ?39。 I looked at i t again. She was ri ght ! It was! Leson27 A wet ni ght 雨夜 Lat e in the aft ernoon, t he boys put up their t ent i n t he middle of a fi el d. As soon as t hi s was done, they cooked a meal over an open f ir e. They wer e al hungr y and the f ood smelt good. Af ter a wonderf ul m eal , they tol d st ori es and sang songs by t he camp fi re . But some tim e lat er i t began to rain. The boys f el t t i red so they pet out t he fi re and cr ept int o t hei r tent. Thei r sleepi ng bags wer e war m and f or table, so they al slept soundly. I n the m iddle of t he ni ght , two boys woke up and began shouti ng. The t ent was f ul l of water! They al l eapt out of t hei r sl eepi ng bags and hurr ied outsi de. It was r aining heavil y and they found t hat a str eam had f or med i n the f iel d. The str eam wound i ts way across the f iel d and then fl owed ri ght under their t ent ! Lesson28 No parki ng 禁止停車 Jasper Whi te is one of those rar e people who bel ieves in ancient myths. He has just bought a new house i n the cit y, but ever since he moved i n, he has had tr oubl e wi th m ot ori st s. when he r eturns home at night, he al ways f inds t hat som eone ha s parked a car out si de his gate. Because of this, he has not been abl e to get his own car int o his garage even once. Jasper has put up39。 No Par ki ng39。 signs outside hi s gat e, but these have not had any ef fect. Now he has put an ugl y stone head over t he gat e. I t is one of the ugli est f aces I have ever seen. I asked hi m what i t was 安徽省 石臺(tái)縣鱷魚、 鱷魚 龜 、 梅花鹿