【正文】 t o Calais. No one noti ced the boy as he cr ept of f. Fr om t her e, he hi tchhi ked t o Pari s in a lor ry. The dri ver gave him a few biscui ts and a cup of coff e and l eft him just outside t he ci ty. The next car the boy stopped di d not take him int o the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Perpi gnan on t he FrenchSpani sh bor der. There he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by t he local authori ti es. He has surely set up a r ecord for t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading s chool . Lesson74 O ut of t he li meli ght 舞臺(tái)之外 An ancient bus st opped by a dr y r iver bed and a par ty of f am ous actor s and act resses got of f. Dr esed i n dar k glasses and old cl othes, t hey had t aken speci al pr ecauti ons so t hat no one shoul d r ecognize them. But as they soon di scovered, di sgui ses can som et im es be t oo perf ect . 39。This is a wonderf ul pl ace f or a piic,39。 sai d Gl ori a Gl eam. 39。 It couldn39。t be bet ter , Gl or ia,39。 Br inksl ey Meers agreed. 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm fans! Why don39。t we e mor e of ten ?39。 Meanwhi le, two ot her act or s, Rockwal l Slinger and Merl in Greeves, had car ri ed two large f ood baskets t o a shady spot under som e tr es. When t hey had al m ade t hem selves f or table, a str anger appeared. He l ooked very angry. 39。Now you gut out of her e, al l of you!39。 he shout ed: 39。 I39。m sheri f here. Do you see that not ice ? I t says No Campi ng in case you can39。t read ! 39。 39。 Look, sheri f , 39。sai d Rockwal l, 39。 don39。t be t oo har d on us. I 39。m Rockwal Sli nger and thi s is Mer li n Gr eeves.39。 39。 Oh, i s it ?39。 said the sher if f wi th a sneer . 39。Wel l, I 39。m Bri nksl ey Meers, and m y other nam e is Gl ori a Gl eam. Now you get out of her e fast !39。 lesson75 SOS 呼救信號 When a li ght pasenger plane f lew of f cour se some ti me ago, i t cr ashed i n the m ountai ns and i ts pi lot was kil led. The onl y passengers, a young woman and her t wo baby daughter s, wer e unhur t. I t was the mi ddl e of wint er. Snow lay t hick on t he ground. The wom an knew that he near est vil lage was mi les away. When it gr ew dar k. she t urned a suit case int o a bed and put t he chi ldr en insi de it , coveri ng them wit h al l t he cl othes she could f ind. Dur ing t he ni ght , it got ter ibl y cold. The woman kept as near as she coul d to the chil dr en and even t ri ed to get int o the case her sel f, but it was too sm al l. Earl y ,next morni ng she heard pl anes pasi ng over head and wonder ed how she coul d send a si gnal . Then she had an idea. She stamped out the l et ter s39。 SOS39。 in t he snow. For tunat ely, a pil ot saw t he signal and sent a m essage by radio t o t he nearest town. It was not long befor e a heli copter ar ived on t he scene to rescue t he sur vivors of t he pl ane cr ash. Leson76 April Fools Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our speci al news bull eti n, 39。 said the voice of the t elevision announcer, 39。 we ar e t aki ng you to t he macar oni f iel ds of Cal abr ia. Macar oni has been grown i n t hi s area f or over six hundred year s. Two of the l eading gr owers, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricardo Br abant e, t el l me t hat t hey have been expect ing a spl endid cr op thi s year and harvest ing has begun earl ier t han usual . Here you can se two wor kers who, between them, have just f i ni shed cutt ing t hree car t l oads of gol den brown m acaroni stalks. The whole vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hreshi ng thi s year 39。s crop befor e the September r ai ns. On the r ight, you can see Mrs Br abant e her sel f. She has been helping her husband f or t hir ty years now. Mrs Br abante is t al king t o the m anager of t he local f act ory wher e the cr op is pr ocessed. Thi s last scene shows you what wi l happen at the end of the har vest : the f am ous Cal abr ian macaroni eat ing peti ti on ! Signor Fratel li, t he present cham pi on, has won i t every year since 1961. And t hat ends our speci al bull e ti n for t oday, Thur sday, Apri l 1st . We ar e now r et urni ng you to t he st udi o.39。 Leson77 A successf ul operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper ati on. The mum my i s that of Shepenm ut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As t her e were st range marks on t he X ray plat es t aken of t he mummy, doctors have been tr yi ng to fi nd out whet her t he woman died of a r ar e disease. The onl y way t o do t his was t o oper ate. The oper at ion, which l ast ed for over f our hour s, proved t o be ver y dif f icult because of t he har d r esi n which covered t he skin. The doctors r emoved a secti on of the m um my and sent i t to a l abor atory. They als o f ound somethi ng which t he Xr ay of the god Duamutef . Thi s god which has the head of a cow was norm al ly pl aced i nsi de a mumm y. The doctor s have not yet deci ded how t he woman died. They f ear ed that the m um my woul d fal l to pi eces when they cut it open, but fort unat ely t his has not happened. The m ummy successf ull y sur vived t he oper at ion. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter reading an ar ti cl e ent it led 39。Ci garet e Smoking and Your Healt h39。 I l it a cigar et te t o calm my nerves. I smoked wi th concent rati on and pleasur e as I was sur e that this woul d be my last ci gar et te. For a whole week I did not smoke at al l and dur ing t his t ime, my wi f e suf fer ed ter ibl y. I had al t he usual sympt oms of som eone givi ng up smoki ng: a bad t emper and an enormous appet it e. My f ri ends kept on of fer ing me ci gar et es and cigar s. They made no ef ort t o hide t hei r am usement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweet s fr om m y pocket. Af ter seven days of this I went to a par ty. Everybody around me was smoking and I f elt ext rem el y un fort abl e. When my ol d f