【導讀】上星期我去看戲。我的座位很好，戲很有意思，但我卻無法欣賞。一青年男子與一青年女子坐在我的身后，我非常生氣，因為我聽不見演員在說什么。我回過頭去怒視著那一男一女，他們卻毫不理會。最后，我忍不住了，又一次回過頭去，生氣地說：“我一個字也聽不見了！”“不關你的事，”那男的毫不客氣。那是個星期天，而在星期天我是從來不早起的，有時我要一直躺到吃午飯的時候。我望望窗外，外面一片昏暗。我想，“又下雨了?！闭谶@時，電話鈴響了。是我姑母露西打來的?！暗疫€在吃早飯，”我說。到了最后一天，我作出了一項重大決定。床，買來了37張明信片。我剛剛收到弟弟蒂姆的來信，他正在澳大利亞。他在那兒已經(jīng)住了6個月了。公司工作，并且已經(jīng)去過澳大利亞的不少地方了。他剛買了一輛澳大利亞小汽車，現(xiàn)在去了澳大利亞中部的小。鎮(zhèn)艾利斯斯普林斯。他不久還將到達達爾文去，從那里，他再飛往珀斯。得這次旅行非常激動人心。

　　

【正文】 是它能夠在任何地方降落：雪地上，水面上，甚至剛耕過的田里。弗西特機長的第一名乘客是位醫(yī)生，他從伯明翰飛往威爾士山區(qū)一個偏僻的村莊。從那時開始，弗西特機長已經(jīng)載送乘客到過許多不尋常的地方。一次，他把飛機降落在了一棟公寓樓的屋頂上；還有一次，降落在了一個廢棄的停車場上。弗西特機長剛剛拒絕了一位商人的奇怪要求。這個人想要飛往大西洋上的一個孤島 羅卡爾島 ，弗西特機長之所以不送他去，是因為那段飛行太危險了。 Lesson30 Football or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayle is a small river that cuts across the park near my home. I like sitting by the Wayle on fine afternoons. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river bank as usual. So me children were playing games on the bank and there were some people rowing on the river. Suddenly, one of the children kicked a ball very hard and it went towards a passing boat. Some people on the bank called out to the man in the boat, but he did not hear them. The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water. I turned to look at the children, but there weren39。t any in sight: they had all run away! The man laughed when he realized what had happened. He called out to the children and threw the ball back to the bank. 威爾河是橫穿過我家附近公園的一條小河。我喜歡在天氣晴朗的下午到河邊坐坐。上星期日天氣很暖和。于是我和往常一樣，又去河邊坐著。河岸上有些孩子正在玩耍，河面上有些人正在劃船。突然，一個孩子狠狠地踢了一腳球，球便向著一只劃過來的小船飛去。岸上的一些人對著小船上的人高喊，但他沒有聽見。球重重地打在他身上，使他差點兒落入水中。我轉過頭去看那些孩子，但一個也不見，全都跑了！當那個人明白了發(fā)生的事情時，笑了起來。他大聲叫著那些孩子，把球扔回到岸上。 Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事 Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man. Frank is now the head of a very large business pany, but as a boy he used to work in a small shop. It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day. He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a small workshop of his own. During the war Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes. At that time he had two helpers. By the end of the war, the small workshop had bee a large factory which employed seven hundred and twentyeight people. Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success. He 新概念英語第二冊 11 was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in. She wanted him to repair their son39。s bicycle! 昨天下午弗蘭克 .霍金斯向我講述了他年輕時的經(jīng)歷。在退休前，弗蘭克是一家非常大的商業(yè)公司的經(jīng)理，但他小時候卻在一家小鋪里做工。他那時的工作是修理自行車，并且通常是一天工作 14個小時。他靠多年積蓄，于 1958 年買下了自己的一個小鋪子。 20 多歲的時候，弗蘭克曾生產(chǎn)飛機零配件。那時他有兩個幫手。幾年之后，小鋪子已經(jīng)發(fā)展成了一個雇有 728 人的大工廠。弗蘭克回想著他早年的艱難經(jīng)歷和走過的漫長的成功之路，微笑了。他正笑著的時候門開了，他的妻子走了進來。她叫他去修理孫 子的自行車。 Lesson32 Shopping made easy 購物變得很方便 People are not so honest as they once were. The temptation to steal is greater than ever beforeespecially in large shops. A detective recently watched a welldressed woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings. One Monday, there were fewer people in the shop than usual when the woman came in, so it was easier for the detective to watch her. The woman first bought a few small articles. After a little time, she chose one of the most expensive dresses in the shop and handed it to an assistant who wrapped it up for her as quickly as possible. Then the woman simply took the parcel and walked out of the shop without paying. When she was arrested, the detective found out that the shopassistant was her daughter. The girl39。 gave39。 her mother a free dress once a week ! 人們不再像以前那樣誠實了。偷竊的誘惑力比以往任何時候都更強烈 特別是在大的商店里。一名偵探最近注意上了一位穿著講究的婦女，她總是在星期一上午進入一家大商場。有一個星期一，當這位婦女走進這家商場時，里面的人比往常少，因此，偵探比較容易監(jiān)視她。這位婦女先是買了幾樣小商品。過了一會兒，她又選了商場里最昂貴的一件衣服，把它遞給了售貨員。那售貨員以最快的速度為她包好了衣服。然后， 那婦女拿過包就走出了商場，根本沒有付錢。她被逮捕后。偵探發(fā)現(xiàn)原來那售貨員是她的女兒。那姑娘每星期 “送 ”她母親一件免費的衣服！ lesson33 Out of the darkness 沖出黑暗 Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her. One afternoon she set out from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm. Towards evening, the boat struck a rock and the girl jumped into the sea. Then she swam to the shore after spending the whole night in the water. During that time she covered a distance of eight miles. Early next morning, she saw a light ahead. She knew she was near the shore because the light was high up on the cliffs. On arriving at the shore, the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen. That was all she remembered. When she woke up a day later, she found herself in hospital. 幾乎過了一個星期，那姑娘才能講述自己的遭遇。一天下午，她乘小船從海岸出發(fā)，遇上了風暴。天將黑時，小船撞在了一塊礁石上，姑娘跳進了海里。她在海里游了整整一夜才游到岸邊。在那段時間里，她游了 8英里。第二天凌晨，她看到前方有燈光，知道自己已經(jīng)接近岸邊了，因為那燈光是在高高的峭壁上。到達岸邊后，姑娘朝著她看到的燈光方向掙扎著往峭壁上爬去。她所記得的就是這些。第二天她醒來時，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己躺在醫(yī)院里。 Lesson34 Quick work 破案 “神速 ” Ted Robinson has been worried all the week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried any more. At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found. Five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being 新概念英語第二冊 12 sent to his home by train. Ted was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen! 丹 .魯賓遜焦慮了整整一個星期。上星期二他收到當?shù)鼐炀值囊环庑牛骄炀秩ヒ惶?。丹奇怪警察為什么找他，但昨天還是去了，結果他一再擔心了。在警察局里，一位面帶笑容的警察告訴他，他的自行車找到了。那位警察對他說 ，那輛自行車是 5天前在 400英里外的一個小村里發(fā)現(xiàn)的，現(xiàn)在正用火車給他運回家來。丹聽到這個消息后，驚奇萬分，但又感到非常好笑，因為他從未指望那輛自行車還能找到。這是 20年前丹還是一個 15歲的孩子時被人偷走的！ Lesson35 Stop thief! 捉賊！ Rov Trenton used to drive a taxi. A short while ago, however, he became a busdriver and he was not regretted it. He is finding his new work far more exciting. When he was driving along Catford Street recently, he saw two thieves rush out of a shop and run towards a waiting car. One of them was carrying a bag full of money. Roy acted quickly and drove the bus straight at the thieves. The one with the money got such a fright that he dropped the bag. As the thieves were trying to get away in their car, Roy drove his bus into the back of it. While the battered car was moving away, Roy stopped his bus and telephoned the p