【正文】 ed by a dry r iver bed and a party of famous act or s and actr eses got off . Dr essed in dark glases and old clothes, they had taken speci al precautions so that no one should r ecognize them. But as they soon discover ed, di sgui ses can someti mes be too perf ect. 39。This i s a wonderf ul place f or a piic,39。 said Glori a Gleam. 39。 I t coul dn39。t be beter, Glor ia,39。 Br inksley Meer s agreed. 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm f ans! Why don39。t we e more of t en ?39。 Meanwhile, two other act or s, Rockwal l Sli nger and Merli n Greeves, had car ried two l ar ge f ood basket s t o a shady spot under some t rees. W hen they had al l m ade themsel ves f or tabl e, a stranger appeared. He looked ver y angry. 39。Now you gut out of her e, al of you! 39。 he shout ed: 39。 I 39。m sheri f her e. Do you se t hat noti ce ? I t says No Camping i n case you can39。t r ead ! 39。 39。 Look, sherif f, 39。sai d Rockwal ,39。 don39。t be t oo hard on us. I39。m Rockwal Sli nger and this is Merl in Greeves. 39。 39。Oh, is it ?39。 sai d the sher if f wi th a sneer . 39。Wel, I 39。m Bri nksley Mers, and my other name i s Gl or ia Gl eam. Now you get out of her e fast ! 39。 leson75 SOS 呼救信號 When a li ght pasenger plane f lew off course some ti me ago, i t crashed in the mountains and i ts pi lot was kil ed. The onl y pa ssengers, a young woman and her t wo baby daughters, wer e unhur t. It was t he mi ddle of winter. Snow lay thick on t he ground. The woman knew that the nearest vil age was mi les away. When it gr ew dark. she turned a suitcase int o a bed and put the chi l dr en insi de i t, cover ing them with al the clothes she could f ind. Duri ng t he night, it got ter ibly col d. The woman kept as near as she could t o the chil dr en and even tri ed t o get into the case hersel f, but it was t oo smal. Ear ly , next morning she heard pl anes passing over head and wondered how she coul d send a signal . Then she had an i dea. She stamped out t he l et ters39。 SOS39。 in t he snow. For tunately, a pi lot saw the si gnal and sent a mesage by radi o to the nearest town. I t was not long befor e a helicopt er ar ived on the scene to r escue t he sur vi vor s of the plane crash. Leson76 April Fool s Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our special news bulleti n, 39。 said the voi ce of the t el evision announcer ,39。 we are t aking you t o the macar oni fi el ds of Cal abri a. Macaroni has been grown in t hi s ar ea f or over si x hundr ed year s. Two of the leadi ng growers, Gi useppe Moldova and Ricardo Brabant e, tel me that hey have been expecti ng a spl endid crop this year and har vest ing has begun earl ier t han usual . Here you can see two workers who, between them, have j ust f inished cutt ing three cart l oads of gol den br own macar oni st al ks. The whol e vi lage has been wor ki ng day and ni ght gatheri ng and t hr eshing this year39。s crop bef or e the September rains. On the ri ght , you can see Mrs Br abante hersel f. She has been hel pi ng her husband f or thir ty year s now. Mrs Brabante is t al ki ng t o the manager of the local fact or y where t he crop is processed. This last scene shows you what wi l happen at the end of the harvest : the famous Cal abri an macar oni eati ng peti tion ! Signor Fr at el li , t he present champion, has won it every year since 1961. And that ends our special bulleti n for today, Thur sday, April 1st . We ar e now r et ur ni ng you to the studi o. 39。 Lesson77 A succesful operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died i n 800 . has just had an oper at ion. The mummy is t hat of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Templ e of Thebes. As t here were str ange mar ks on the Xr ay plates taken of t he mummy, doct or s have been t rying to f ind out whether t he wom an died of a r ar e di seas e. The only way to do this was to operate. The operati on, whi ch l asted for over f our hours, pr oved t o be very dif ficult because of the hard r esin which cover ed the skin. The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a l aboratory. They al so f ound somet hi ng which the Xr ay of the god Duamutef . This god which has the head of a cow was nor mal ly placed inside a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how t he woman died. They f ear ed t hat he mummy would fal to pieces when t he y cut it open, but f or tunately t hi s has not happened. The mummy succesfull y survived the oper ation. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter reading an ar ticle ent it led 39。Cigar et te Smoking and Your Health39。 I l it a ci garet e to cal m my ner ves. I smoked wi th concentr at ion and pleasur e as I was ure that hi s would be my last cigar et te. For a whole week I did not smoke at al and dur ing this ti me, my wi fe suf fered teri bl y. I had al the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad t emper 1 葉縣康樂苑老年公寓和老年活動中心項目引 言 “最美不過夕陽紅，溫馨又從容。夕陽是晚開的花，夕陽是陳年的酒，夕陽是遲到的愛，夕陽是未了的情，多少情愛，化作一片夕陽紅”！ 當(dāng)這動聽的歌聲在耳畔響起，我們就會想起年邁的父母。父輩養(yǎng)育了我們，創(chuàng)造了財富，操勞了一生，如今他們步入了老年， 既 需要生活的照料，更需要身心 的 康寧 。作為晚輩，我們用什么方式來贍養(yǎng)老人，讓他們安享天倫之樂，感受到社會的關(guān)愛和人間的親情？這是整個社會都應(yīng)該重視的問題。 人生最需要關(guān)愛的 時期是 兩頭 ： 一是小 時候 ，二是 到老年 。我國目前是世界上老齡化程度最 快的國家，發(fā)達(dá)國家近百年才出現(xiàn)的人口老齡狀態(tài)，我國 50 多年便進(jìn)入了 。這源于改革開放以來人口 出生 率的下降、經(jīng)濟(jì)條件的提高和健康條件的改善等因素。據(jù)統(tǒng)計，近 60 年來，我國平均壽命比建國前增長了近 30 歲。而目前家庭撫養(yǎng)晚輩與贍養(yǎng)老人的狀況，卻存在著極大的 反差 ： 6 個大人圍著一個小孩轉(zhuǎn)，贍養(yǎng)老 人 卻力不從心。 這在很大程度上不是因為孝心或經(jīng)濟(jì)原因，而是因為老年人有多方面的需要。為社會服務(wù) 幾十年 ，到老年被社會邊緣化， 深 居家中、缺乏交流群體，老 后生活無樂，豈不心寒？據(jù)統(tǒng)計，全國有 1000萬 70歲以上高齡老人需要照顧。人口學(xué)家 分析，我國未來相當(dāng)長一段時期內(nèi)，遞活動執(zhí)行方 Engl ishman, Wil iam Low. He suggested that a double rail way t unnel shoul d be built . This would solve the probl em of vent ilati on, for i f a train entered this tunnel, it woul d dr aw in fr esh air behind it. For tyt wo years later a tunnel was actual ly begun. I f, at the ti me, the Bri tish had not f eared invasion, it woul d have been pl et ed. Recentl y, there has again been great i nt er est in the idea of aChannel Tunnel. If i t i s buil t, it wil connec