【正文】 Fools Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our special news bulet in,39。 said t he voice of the televison announcer, 39。 we are t aking you t o t he m acaroni f ields of Calabria. Macaroni has been grown in t his ar ea f or over six hundred years. Two of t he leading r owers, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricardo Brabante, t ell me t hat t hey have been expecting a splendid crop this year and har vesting has begun ear lier t han usual. Her e you can see t wo worker s who, between t hem, 濮陽(yáng)市 良種豬場(chǎng)建設(shè)可行性研究報(bào)告 (代項(xiàng)目建議書 ) 項(xiàng)目名稱：良種豬場(chǎng)建設(shè) 項(xiàng)目性質(zhì)： 重組、擴(kuò)建 項(xiàng)目地點(diǎn)： 濮陽(yáng)市 項(xiàng)目負(fù)責(zé)人： 聶秋平 技術(shù)負(fù)責(zé)人： 聶世偉 項(xiàng)目總投資： 310 萬(wàn)元 填報(bào)時(shí)間：二 零一一 年 三 月 Englishm an, Wilam Low. He sugest ed t hat double r ailway t unnel should be built . This would solve t he pr oblem of vent ilation, f or if a t r ain ent er ed t his t unnel, it would dr aw in f r esh air behind it . Fort yt wo years lat er at unnel was act ualy begun. I f, at he t im e, t he Brit ish ad not f ear ed invasion, it would have been plet ed. Recently, t here has again been gr eat int er est in t he idea of a Channel Tunnel. I f it is built , it wil c onnect Brit ain t o Eur ope f or t he f ir st t ime in hist or y. Lesson65 J umbo ver sus t he police 小象對(duì)警察 Last Christm as, t he cir cus owner, Jimm y Gat es, decided t o t ake som e pr esent s t o a childr en39。s hospit al. Dr essed up as Father Christm as and ac panied by a 39。guar d of honour 39。 of six pr et ty girls, he set of f down t he main str eet of t he cit y r iding a baby elephant caled J um bo. He, should have known t hat t he police would never alow t his sort of t hing. A policeman appr oached J imm y and t old him he ought o have gone along a sidestr eet as J um bo was holding up t he t r af fic. Though Jimm y agreed t o go at once, J um bo r ef used t o move. Fif t een policemen had t o push very har d t o get him of f t he m ain st reet. The police had a dif ficult tim e, but hey were m ost amused. 39。J um bo m ust weigh af ew t ons, 39。 said a policeman af t er war ds, 39。so it was f ort unate t hat we didn39。t have t o car y him. Of course, we should ar r est him, but as he has a good r ecor d, we shal et him of f t his t im e.39。 Lesson66 Sweet as honey! 像蜜一樣甜！ The Hatheld Puf fin is a m odern aer o plane, but i s designer, M r J ohn Wim penny, is f inding it dif icult t o get it of t he ground. The r eason f or t his is t hat his plane is also a bicycle. I ts pilot has t o pedal har d t o get it int o t he air . Af ter M r Wim penny had t he plane built , it was t ested t horoughly. I n 1961, it was t he f ir st man power ed air cr aft t o f ly half a m ile. While being f lown by a cham pion am at eur cyclist in 1963, t he plane cr ashed on an air field. Since t hen, Mr Wim penny has had it r ebuilt . He has had t he lengt h of t he wings increased so t hat hey now measure 93 f eet alm ost as long as t hose of a Dakota. M any people have shown i t erest in t his new and unusual spor t. But t hough air cyclists may lear n how t o f ly over shor t dist ances, and m ay, event ualy, even get acr oss t he English Channel, it is doubtf ul whet her t hey wil ever cycle acr oss t he At lant ic. Lesson67 Volcanoes 火山 Har oun Tazieff t he Polish scient ist, has pent his lif etim e st udying active volcanoes and eep caves in al par t s of t he world. I n 1948, he went o lake Kivu in t he Congo t o bserv e a new volcano which he lat er named Kit ur o. Tazief f was able t o set up his camp ver y close t o t he volcano while it was er upting violently. Though he m anaged t o t ake a num ber of brilant phot ographs, he could not st ay near t he volcano f or very long. He not iced t hat r iver of liquid r ock was ing t owards him. I t hreat ened t o sur r ound him plet ely, but Tazief f m anaged t o escape just in t im e. He wait ed until he volcano became quiet and he was able t o r et ur n t wo days lat er. This t im e, he m anaged t o clim b int o t he mout h of Kit uro so t hat he could t ake photogr aphs and m easur e t em per at ures. Tazief f has of t en r isked his lif e in t his way. He has been able t o t el us m ore about active volcanoes t han any man alive. Lesson68 Persistent 糾纏不休 I crosed t he st reet t o avoid meet ing him , but he saw m e and cam e r unni g t owards m e. I t was no use pr etending t hat I had not seen him , so I waved t o him . I never enjoy meet ing Ber t Dykes. He never has anything t o do. No m at er how busy ou ar e, he always insists on ing wit h you. I had t o t hink of a way of pr eventing him f r om f olowing m e ar ound al m or ni g. 39。Hulo, Bert, 39。 I said. 39。Fancy m eeting you her e ! 39。 Hulo, Elizabet h,39。 Ber t answer ed. 39。I was just wondering how t o spend t he morninguntil I saw you. You39。r e not busy doing anyt hing, ar e you ?39。 No, not at al, 39。 I answer ed.39。 I 39。m going t o. .39。Would you m ind m y ing wit h you ?39。 he asked, bef or e I had f inished speaking. ‘ Not at al, 39。 I lied, 39。but I39。m going to the dentist.39。 Then I 39。l e wit h you,39。 he answer ed.39。 Ther e39。s always plenty t o r ead in t he 39。wait ing r om ! 39。 lesson69 But not m ur der ! 并非謀殺！ I was being t ested f or a dr iving licence f or t he t hir d t im e. Ihad been asked t o drive in heavy t r af fic and had done so succesfuly. Af t er having been inst ructed t o drive out of t own, Ibegan t o acquir e conf idence. Sur e t hat Ihad pased, I was alm ost beginni g t o enjoy my t est. The examiner m ust have been pleased wit h m y per form ance, f or he sm iled and said, 39。J ust one m or e t hing, M r Eames. Let us uppose t hat child suddenly croses t he r oad in f r ont of you. As soon as I t ap on t he window, Iwant t he car t o be stopped imm ediately.39。 I cont inued driving and af ter som e t im e, t he examiner t aped loudly. Though t he sound could be heard clear ly, it t ook m e a long t im e t o r eact . I sudenly pr essed t he br ake pedal h