【導(dǎo)讀】haveshowninterestinthisnewandunusualsport.Butthoughaircyclistsmaylearnhowtoflyovershortdistances,andmay,eventualy,evengetacrosstheEnglishChannel,itisdoubtfulwhethertheywillevercycleacrosstheAtlantic.Lesson67Volcanoes火山HarounTaziefthePolishscientist,hasspenthislife-timestudyingactivevolcanoesanddeepcavesinallpartsoftheworld.In1948,hewenttolakeKivuintheCongotoobserveanewvolcanowhichhelaternamedKitur

　　

【正文】 g 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 just fi ni shed cutt ing three cart loads of golden br own macar oni st al ks. The whol e vil lage has been working day and ni ght gathering and t hr eshing this year39。s crop bef or e the September rains. On the ri ght, you can see Mrs Brabante herself . She has been hel pi ng her husband f or thir ty years now. Mr s Brabante is t alki ng t o the manager of the local f actor y where t he crop is processed. Thi s last scene shows you what wil l happen at the end of the harvest : t he f amous Cal abri an macaroni eati ng peti tion ! Si gnor Fr at el li, the present champion, has won it every year si nce 1961. And that ends our special bulle ti n for today, Thur sday, April 1st . We are now retur ni ng you to the st udi o. 39。 Lesson77 A succesful operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egypti an woman who died in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper at ion. The mummy i s that of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Temple of Thebes. As ther e wer e str ange mar ks on the Xr ay plates taken of t he mummy, doct ors have been trying to f ind out whet her the woman di ed of arare disease. The onl y way t o do t hi s was to oper at e. The oper at ion, which last ed f or over four hour s, proved to be ver y di f icul t because of t he hard resin which covered the ski n. The doct or s removed a sect ion of the mummy and sent it to a labor at or y. They also found something which the X ray of t he god Duamutef. Thi s god whi ch has t he head of a cow was normal y pl aced inside a mummy. The doct or s have not yet deci ded how the woman died. They feared that the mummy would f al l to pieces when they cut i t open, but fort unately this has not happened. The mummy successf ul ly sur vi ved the operati on. Leson78 The last one? 最后一枝嗎？ Aft er r eadi ng an arti cl e enti tled 39。Ci garet e Smoking and Your Heal th39。 I li t a cigar ete t o calm my nerves. I smoked wit h concent rati on and pl easure as I was sur e t hat this woul d be my l ast cigarete. For a whol e week I did not smoke at al l and duri ng t hi s time, my wife suffered ter ibly. I had al l t he usual sympt oms of someone gi ving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appeti e. My f ri ends kept on of feri ng me cigar et tes and ci gar s. They made no ef fort to hide their amusement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweets fr om my pocket. Aft er seven days of this I went to a par ty. Everybody ar ound me was smoking and I felt ext remel y unf ortable. When my ol d fr iend Br ian ur ged me to accept a cigar et te, i t was mor e than I coul d bear . I t ook one guilt ily, li t i t and smoked wit h sati sf action. My wife was deli ghted that hi ngs had r et ur ned to normal once mor e. Anyway, as Br ian pointed out , i t i s the easi est thing in the world t o gi ve up smoking. He himsel f has done it lots of t imes! Leson79 By air 乘飛機 I used to t ravel by air a great deal when I was a boy. My par ents, used t o live in Sout h Amer ica and I used t o fl y ther e fr om Eur ope in t he hol idays. An air hostess woul d take charge of me and I never had an unpleasant exper ience. I am used to tr aveli ng by air and onl y on one occasion have I ever felt fr ightened. Af ter t aking off , we were fl yi ng low over the cit y and slowly gai ni ng height , when the pl ane suddenly turned round and f lew back to t he air port . Whi le we were wai ti ng t o land, an air hostes t ol d us to keep calm and to get off the pl ane qui et ly as oon as it had touched down. Ever ybody on board was wor ri ed and we were curious to fi nd out what had happened. Later we lear nt that here was a very i mport ant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t ol d that a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Aft er we had landed, t he plane was searched thoroughly. Fort unately, nothing was f ound and fi ve hour s l at er we were abl e to take of f agai n. Lesson80 The Cryst al Pal ace 水晶宮 Perhaps t he most ext raor dinar y buil di ng of the ni ent h century was t he Cr ystal Palace, whi ch was buil t in Hyde Par k for the Great Exhi bi tion of 1851. The Cr ystal Palace was di f er ent from al other buildings in the wor ld, for it was made of iron and glass. It was one of the biggest buildings of al time and a l ot of peopl e from many count ri es came t o see it. A great many goods were sent t o t he exhi bi tion f rom 1 鄂爾多斯市東勝經(jīng)濟(jì)開發(fā)區(qū) 鐵西三期北片區(qū)道路建設(shè)項目 可行性研究報告 項目名稱 ：鄂爾多斯市東勝經(jīng)濟(jì)開發(fā)區(qū)鐵西三期北片區(qū)道路 建設(shè)單位 ： 內(nèi)蒙古鄂爾多斯東勝區(qū)經(jīng)濟(jì)開發(fā)建設(shè)局 編制單位 ：鄂爾多斯市筠泰建設(shè)監(jiān)理有限責(zé)任公司 鄂爾多斯市中政投資咨詢有限責(zé)任公司 總 經(jīng) 理 ： 項目負(fù)責(zé)人 ： 項目編制人 ： have shown interest in t hi s new and unusual sport . But t hough air cycli st s may l earn how to f ly over short di st ances, and may, eventualy, even get across t he Engl ish Channel, it is doubtful whether t hey wil l ever cycle acr oss the Atl anti c. Lesson67 Volcanoes 火山 Har oun Tazief the Pol ish scientist, has spent his li fet ime st udying acti ve volcanoes and deep caves i n al l part s of the wor ld. In 1948, he went to l ake Kivu in t he Congo to observe anew volcano which he later named Kituro. Tazief was able to set up hi s camp ver y cl ose to the vol cano whi le it was erupting violent ly. Though he managed to t ake a number of br il iant photographs, he could not stay near t he volcano for very l ong. He noticed that a ri ver of l iqui d rock was ing towards hi m. I t threat ened t o surr ound him pl et el y, but Tazief managed t o escape just in t ime. He waited unt il the volcano became quiet and he was abl e t o return t wo days l at er . This t ime, he mana ged to cli mb into t he mouth of Ki turo so that he c