【正文】 ccurate as wel l. Of icials fr om Greenwich Observat or y have the cl ock checked twice a day. On t he . C. you can hear t he clock when it is act ual y st riking because microphones ar e connected to the cl ock tower. Big Ben has rarely gone wrong. Once, however, it fail ed t o gi ve t he cor rect ime. A painter who had been working on the tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and sl owed it down ! Leson72 A car called Bluebi rd “藍(lán)鳥”汽車 The gr eat r acing dri ver, Sir Malcol m Cam pbel l, was t he f irst man t o dr ive at over 300 mi les per hour . He set up a new worl d recor d in September 1935 at Bonnevi le Salt Flats, Utah. Bl uebird, the car he was dr iving, had been specialy built f or him. It was over 30 feet in l ength and had a 2500 horse power engi ne. Although Campbel reached a speed of over 304 mil es per hour , he had great dif ficulty i n cont r ol li ng t he car because a tyre bur st dur ing the fi rst r un. After his at tempt , Campbel was disappoi nted t o lear n that his average speed had been 299 mi les per hour. However , a f ew days l at er , he was t ol d that a mistake had been made. Hi s aver age speed had been 301 miles per hour. Since t hat time, raci ng dr iver s have r eached speeds of over 400 mi les an hour. Fol lowing hi s f at her 39。s foot st eps many years l at er , Sir Malcolm39。s son, Donal d, also set up a worl d record. Li ke his f at her, he was dri vi ng a car cal led Bluebir d. Lesson73 The recordhol der 紀(jì)錄保持者 Li tl e boys who play tr uant f rom school are uni maginative. A quiet day39。s fishing, or eight hour s in a cinema seing the same fi lm over and over again, is usual ly as far as they get. They have al l been put t o shame by a boy who, whil e pl aying tr uant, travel led 1600 miles. He hitch hi ked to Dover and, t owards evening, went into a boat to f ind somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next mor ni ng, he discover ed t hat the boat had, in t he meanti me, tr avel ed to Calais. No one not iced the boy as he cr ept off. From t here, he hit chhiked to Par is in a l or ry. The driver gave him a few biscuit s and a cup of coffee and l ef t him just out si de t he city. The next ca r the boy stopped di d not take him into the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the Fr ench Spani sh border . Ther e he was picked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by t he l ocal aut hor it es. He has urely set up a r ecord f or the thousands of boys who dr eam of evadi ng school . Leson74 Out of the li mel ight 舞臺(tái)之外 An ancient bus st opped by a dr y ri ver bed and a par ty of famous actor s and actr esses got of f. Dressed in dar k gl asses and old clothes, they had t aken special pr ecaut ions so that no one shoul d recogni ze t hem. But as t hey soon discovered, disgui ses can sometimes be t oo perf ect. 39。This is a wonderf ul place f or a pii c, 39。 sai d Gloria Gl eam. 39。 It couldn39。t be bet ter, Glori a, 39。 Br inksley Mer s agreed. 39。No newspaper men, no f il m fans! Why don39。t we e more oft en ?39。 Meanwhile, two other act or s, Rockwal l Sl i nger and Mer lin Gr eves, had car ied two large f ood baskets to a shady spot under some tr es. When they had al made t hemsel ves for tabl e, a st ranger appear ed. He looked very angr y. 39。Now you gut out of here, al l of you!39。 he shouted: 39。 I39。m sheri f here. Do you se that notice ? It says No Campi ng in case you can39。t r ead !39。 39。 Look, sher if f, 39。said Rockwal ,39。 don39。t be too har d on us. I 39。m Rockwal Slinger and t hi s i s Mer li n Greeves.39。 39。 Oh, i s it ?39。 said t he sher if wi th a sneer . 39。Wel l, I39。m Bri nksl ey Mers, and my ot her name is Gl or ia Gleam. Now you get out of her e fast !39。 l esson75 SOS 呼救信號(hào) When a light pasenger plane f lew of f course some time ago, it crashed i n the mountains and it s pi lot was ki l ed. The onl y pa senger s, a young woman and her t wo baby daughters, were unhurt . I t was the middle of wi nt er . Snow l ay t hi ck on the ground. The woman knew t hat the nearest vi l age was mi les away. When i t gr ew dark. she turned a sui tcase into a bed and put the chil dr en i nside it , coveri ng t hem wi th al the cl ot hes she coul d f ind. Duri ng t he night, it got ter ibly col d. The woman kept as near as she could t o the childr en and even t ried to get i nt o the case hersel f, but it was t oo smal l. Ear ly ,next morning she heard planes passi ng over head and wonder ed how she could send a signal. Then she had an idea. She stamped out the let er s39。 SOS39。 in t he snow. For tunately, a pi lot saw the si gnal and sent amessage by r adio t o the nearest town. I t was not long before a hel icopter ar ri ved on the scene to r escue the sur vi vors of the pl ane cr ash. Leson76 April Fool s Day 愚人節(jié) 39。To end our speci al news bulleti n, 39。 sai d the voice of t he t el evision announcer, 39。 we are taking you to t he macar oni fi el ds of Calabria . Macaroni has been grown in t hi s area for over six hundr ed years. Two of the leading grower s, Giuseppe Mol dova and Ricar do Br abant e, tel me that hey have been expecting a spl endid cr op this year and harvest ing has begun earli er than usual . Here you can see two worker s who, between t hem, have just fi ni shed cutti ng t hree cart loads of golden br own macaroni stalks. The whol e vi l age has been wor ki ng day and night gat heri ng and threshing this year 39。s cr op before the September r ains. On t he r ight , you can see Mr s Br abant e hersel f. She has been hel ping her husband f or t hi rty year s now. Mrs Brabante i s t al ki ng t o the manager of t he l ocal fact or y wher e t he crop is processed. This last scene shows you what wi l happen at he end of the har vest : the famous Calabr ian macar oni eat ing peti ti on ! Signor Frateli , t he pr esent champi on, has won i t ever y year since 1961. And t hat ends our specia l bull et in for toda