【正文】 The Olympic GamesThe Olympic Games will be held in our country in four ____________ time. As a great many people will be visiting the country, the ____________ will be building new hotels, an ____________ stadium, and a fine new swimming pool. 39。They will also be building new roads and a special ____________ line. The Games will be held just outside the capital and the whole area will be called 39。_____________ ________39。. Workers will have ____________ the new roads by the end of this year. By the end of next year, they will have finished work on the new stadium. The fine modern buildings have been ____________ by Kurt Gunter. Everybody will be watching ____________ as the new buildings go up. We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have ____________ been held before in this country.Lesson 38 Everything except the weatherMy old __________, Harrison, had lived in the Mediterranean for many years before he returned to England. He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to _________________ in the country. He had no __________ returned than he bought a house and went to live there. Almost immediately he began to __________ about the weather, for even though it was still summer, it rained continually and it was often __________ cold. After so many years of sunshine, Harrison got a __________. He acted __________ he had never lived in England before. In the end, it was more than he could __________. He had __________ had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country. The dream he had had for so many years ended there. Harrison had _______________ everything except the weather.Lesson39 Am I all right?While John Gilbert was in hospital, he asked his doctor to tell him ___________ his operation had been successful, but the doctor refused to do so. The following day, the patient asked for a ___________ telephone. When he was alone, he telephoned the hospital exchange and ______________ Doctor Millington. When the doctor answered the phone, Mr. Gilbert said he was ____________________ a certain patient, a Mr. John Gilbert. He asked if Mr. Gilbert39。s operation had been successful and the doctor told him that it had been. He then asked when Mr. Gilbert would _______________________ go home, and the doctor told him that he would have to stay in hospital ___________________________. Then Dr Millington asked the caller if he was a ___________of the patient.39。 No,39。 the patient answered,39。 I am Mr. John Gilbert.39。Lesson40 Food and talkLast week at ___________________, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs. Rumbold. Mrs. Rumbold was a large, unsmiling lady in a ______________________________. She did not even ___________________ when I took my seat beside her. Her eyes were ___________________ her plate and in a short time, she was busy eating. I tried to ___________________.“A new play ____________________ The Globe soon,” I said. “Will you be seeing it?” “No,” she answered. “Will you be spending your holidays _______________ this year?” I asked. “No,” she answered.“Will you be _______________ England?” I asked. “No,” she answered. In despair, I asked her _____________ she was enjoying her dinner. “Young man,” she answered, “if you ate more and talked less, we would both ______________________!” lesson41 Do you call that a hat?“Do you call that a hat?” I said to my wife. “You needn’t ______________________ about it,” my wife answered as she looked at herself in the mirror. I ______________________ one of those modern chairs with holes in it and waited. We had been in the hat shop ______________________ and my wife was still in front of the mirror.“We mustn’t buy things we don’t need,” I ______________________. I _________________________________ almost at once.“You needn’t have said that,” my wife answered. “I needn’t ______________________ that terrible tie you bought yesterday.” “I find it beautiful,” I said. “A man ______________________________.”“And a woman ________________________________,” she answered.______________________________ we walked out of the shop together. My wife was wearing a hat that ________________________________!Lesson42 Not very musicalAs we had had a long _______________________ one of the markets of Old Delhi, we stopped at a square to ___________________. After a time, we noticed a snake charmer with two large baskets at the other side of the square, so we went to _______________________. As soon as he saw us, he picked up a long pipe _____________________________ and opened one of the baskets. When he began to play a tune, we had our _______________________ the snake. It rose out of the basket and began to _______________________ of the pipe. We were very much surprised when the snake charmer suddenly began to play jazz and _______________________________. The snake, however, _______________________ 39。dance39。 slowly. It obviously could not _____________________________ Indian music and jazz!Lesson43 Over the South Pole 飛越南極In 1929, three years after his flight over the North Pole, the American explorer, R. E. Byrd, successfully flew over the South Pole for the first time. Though, at first, Byrd and his men were able to take a great many photographs of the mountains that lay below, they soon ran into serious trouble. At one point, it seemed certain that their plane would crash. It could only get over the mountains if it rose to 10,000 feet. Byrd at once ordered his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then able to rise and it cleared the mountains by 400 feet. Byrd now knew that he would be able to reach the South Pole which was 300 miles away, for there were no more mountains in sight. The aircraft was able to fly over the endless white plains without difficulty. Lesson44 Through the forest 穿過森林Mrs Anne Sterling did not think of the risk she was taking when she ran through a forest after two men. They had rushed up to her while she was hav