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【正文】 or got to put you off. 39。 I t doesn39。t mater,39。 I sai d. 39。Il l get off here.39。 39。We are going back now,39。 said the conductor. 39。Wel, in that case, I prefer to st ay on the bus,39。 I answered. Leson51 Reward for vi rt ue 對美德的獎(jiǎng)賞 My f ri end, Herber t, has always been fat, but things got so bad r ecentl y that he decided t o go on a di et. He began his diet a wek ago. Fir st of al, he wr ot e out a long list of al l the foods which were f or bi dden. The li st incl uded most of t he t hi ngs Her bert loves: but ter , potatoes, ri ce, beer , mi lk, chocolate, and sweet s. Yester day I paid him a visit. Ir ang the bel and was not sur pr ised to se that Herber t was st il as fat as ever. He l ed me into his room and hurri edly hid a large parcel under his desk. It was obvious t hat he was ver y embarased. When I asked him what he was doi ng, he smiled guil til y and then put the parcel on the desk. He explained t hat his diet was so st rict that he had t o r eward himsel f occasi onal ly. Then he showed me the content s of the parcel. It contained fi ve l ar ge bar s of chocolate and three bags of sweet s! Lesson52 A pret ty carpet 漂亮的地毯 We have just moved into a new house and I have been working hard al mor ning. I have been trying to get my new room in or der . This has not been easy because I own over athousand books. To make maters worse, the room is rather smal , so I have tempor ar ily put my books on the floor. At he moment , they cover ever y inch of f loor space and I actualy have to walk on them t o get i n or out of the room. A shor t whil e ago, my si ster helped me t o cary one of my old bookcases up the stair s. She went i nt o my r oom and got a big sur pr ise when she saw al l those books on the fl oor. 39。Thi s i s t he preti est carpet I have ever seen,39。 she sai d. She gazed at it f or some t ime then added, 39。You don39。t need bookcases at al l. You can sit here in your spar e time and r ead the carpet !39。 Leson53 Hot snake 觸電的蛇 At l ast f iremen have put out abi g forest fir e in Cal ifornia. Since t hen, they have been tr yi ng t o f ind out how t he fi re began. Forest fi re ar e of ten caused by broken gl ass or by cigar et te ends which people carelesly throw away. Yester day the fir em en examined t he ground car ef ul ly, but were not able to f ind any br oken glass. They wer e also quit e sure that a cigarete end did not star t he fi re. This morning, however, afir eman accidentaly discover ed the cause. He not iced the remai ns of a snake which was wound r ound the elect ric wir es of a 16,000volt power li ne. I n this way, he was able to solve the mystery. The expl anation was simple but very unusual. A bird had snatched up the snake fr om the ground and then dropped i t on to the wir es. The snake then wound it self round the wir es. When it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediatel y start ed a fi re. Lesson54 Sti cky fingers 粘糊的手指 Aft er breakfast , I sent the chil dr en to school and then I went to market . I t was sti l early when I returned home. The children wer e at school, my husband was at wor k and t he house was quiet. So I decided to make some tarts for tea. In a short ime I was busy mixing butt er and fl our and my hands were soon cover ed wit h sti cky pastry. At exact ly that moment, the telephone rang. Not hi ng could have been more annoying. I pi cked up the receiver bet wen two sticky f ingers a nd was dismayed when I recognized t he voice of Mrs Bates. I t ook me ten minut es to per suade her to ri ng back later. At l ast I hung up t he r ecei ver. What amess! There was past ry on my finger s, on the telephone, and on the door knobs. I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than t he door bel rang loud enough t o wake the dead. This time i t was the post man and he wanted me to si gn f or a regist er ed leter ! Lesson55 Not a gold mi ne 并非金礦 Dr eams of fi nding lost treasure almost came true recently. A new machi ne cal ed 39。The Revealer39。 has been i nvent ed and it has ben used t o detect gold which has been buri ed in t he ground. The machine was used i n a cave near t he seashore wher e it is said pir at es used to hide gold. The pir at es woul d of ten bury gol d in the cave and t hen fail to coll ect i t. Ar med with the new machi ne, a search part y went he di d not like it. She enj oyed herself maki ng t he as ist ant bri ng almost everything in the window before fi naly buyi ng the dres she had fi rst asked f or . Lesson58 A blessing in disgui se? 是因禍得福嗎？ The tiny vi l l age of Frinley is said to possess a 39。cursed tr e39。. Because the tr e was mentioned in a newspaper , the number of vi sit or s t o Fr inley has now increased. The tree was plant ed near a chur ch f ift y year s ago, but it is only in r ecent year s that it has gained an evil reputati on. I t i s ai d that if anyone touches the tree, he wi l have bad l uck。 i f he pi cks a l eaf, he wi l die. Many vilager s believe t hat he tr e has already claimed a number of victims. The vi car has been asked t o have the tr e cut down, but so far he has refused. He has pointed out that the tree is a usef ul source of ine as tourists have been ing from al par ts of the count ry to se it . In spi te of al that has been sai d, the tour ist s have been picki ng leaves and cutt ing t heir names on the tr etr unk. So far, not one of t hem has been st ruck down by sudden death! Lesson59 In or out ？ 進(jìn)來 還是出去？ Our dog, Rex, used t o sit outside our front gate and bar k. Every ti me he want ed to e into the garden he would bark unt il s omeone opened t he gat e. As the neighbour s pl ai ned of the noise, my husband spent weks t rai ni ng him to press hi s paw on t he l atch to let hi mself in. Rex soon became an expert at opening the gate. However, when I was goi ng out shoppi ng last week, I not iced him i n the garden near the gate. This time he was bar ki ng so t hat someone woul