【正文】 egret ed saying it almost at once. 39。You needn39。t have sai d that ,39。 my wif e answered. 39。 I need not remind you of that er ribl e t ie you bought yest er day.39。 39。 I find it beautif ul ,39。 I said. 39。A man can never have too i nt o the cave hoping to fi nd buri ed t reasur e. The l eader of t he part y was exam ini ng t he soil near the entr ance to t he cave when t he machine showed t hat her e was gol d under t he ground. Ver y exci ted, t he par ty dug a hol e t wo f et deep. They fi nal y found a sm al gol d coi n whi ch was alm ost wort hl es. The part y then sear ched t he whole cave thor oughl y but di d not fi nd anyt hi ng except an em pt y t in t runk. In spi te of t hi s, many people are conf ident that 39。The Revealer39。 m ay reveal somet hi ng of value fairl y soon. Lesson56 Fast er t han sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a r ace is hel d for ol d cars. A lot of cars ent er ed for t hi s race l ast year and t her e was a gr eat deal of exci tem e nt just bef or e it began. One of the m ost handsom e cars was a Roll s Royce Sil ver Ghost . The most unusual car was a Benz whi ch had onl y t hr ee wheel s. Bui lt in 1885, i t was the ol dest car t aki ng par t. Aft er a gr eat m any l oud explosi ons, t he r ace began. Many of t he cars broke down on t he cour se and som e dri ver s spent m or e tim e under thei r cars t han in t hem !A f ew cars, however, pleted the race. The winning car reached a speed of fort y miles an hour much f aster t han any of its r ival s. It sped downhil at he end of the race and its dri ver had a lot of t rouble t rying to stop it. The race gave everyone a great deal of pleasure. I t was very di ferent f rom moder n car races but no l ess excit ng. Leson57 Can I help you, madam? 你要買什么，夫人？ A woman i n bl ue j eans stood at the window of an expensi ve shop. Though she hesit at ed f or a moment, she f inal ly went in and asked to se a dres t hat was in t he wi ndow. The assi st ant who ser ved her did not li ke t he way she was dr essed. Glanci ng at her scor nfully, he t ol d her that t he dres was sold. The woman walked out of the shop angril y and decided to punish the assi st ant next day. She r et ur ned to t he shop the f ol lowing mor ni ng dr essed in a f ur coat, wit h a handbag i n one hand and a long umbr el la in t he other . After seeking out t he r ude assi st ant she asked f or the s ame dres. Not realizing who she was, t he asistant was eager to ser ve her t hi s t ime wit h great dif icul ty, he climbed into the shop window to get the dres. As soon as he saw it , t he woman said s many t ies.39。 39。And a woman can39。t have too many hat s,39。 she answer ed. Ten mi nutes later we walked out of the shop toget her. My wif e was wear ing a hat that looked li ke a l ight house ! Lesson42 Not very m usical 并非很懂音樂 As we had had a long wal k through one of the mar ket s of Old Delhi, we st opped at a square t o have a r est. Aft er a ti me, we not iced a snake char mer wi th two l ar ge basket s at the other si de of the squar e, so we went t o have a l ook at hi m. As soon as he saw us, he pi cked up a l ong pipe whi ch was cover ed wit h coins and opened one of t he basket s. When he began t o pl ay a t une, we had our f ir st glimpse of the snake. It rose out of the basket and began t o foll ow the m ovements of t he pipe. We wer e very much surpri sed when the snake char mer suddenly began to play jaz tunes and moder n pop songs. The snake, however , cont inued to 39。dance39。 slowly. I t obviously could not t el l t he di f er ence between I ndi an musi c and jazz! Lesson43 Over t he South Pole 飛越南極 In 1929, three years after hi s fli ght over the Nor th Pol e, the American expl or er, R. E. Byr d, succesfull y fl ew over t he Sout h Pole f or t he f irst time. Though, at fi rst, Byr d and his men were able to t ake agr eat many photographs of t he mount ai ns t hat lay below, they soon ran into serious troubl e. At one poi nt , i t seemed cert ai n that their plane woul d cr ash. I t coul d only get over the mountains if it r ose to 10, 000 feet. Byr d at once order ed his men to t hr ow out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then able to r ise and it clear ed t he mount ai ns by 400 f et. Byr d now knew that he would be able t o reach the South Pole which was 300 mi les away, f or there were no mor e mountains in si ght. The ai rcraft was abl e to f ly over the endl ess whi te plains without dif ficulty. Lesson44 Through the forest 穿過森林 Mrs Anne Sterl ing di d not think of t he r isk she was taking when she r an thr ough a forest af ter two men. They had r ushed up to her 中國(guó)重慶文化創(chuàng)意產(chǎn)業(yè)創(chuàng)新基地 項(xiàng) 目 建 議 書 北京城市發(fā)展研究所 二〇〇九年十二月 球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a smal ri ver that cut s across t he park near my home. I li ke sit ting by the Wayl e on f ine af ternoons. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river bank as usual . Some chil dr en were playing games on the bank and t here were some people r owi ng on the ri ver. Suddenly, one of t he childr en kicked a bal l very har d and it went towards a pasing boat. Some people on the bank caled out to t he man in t he boat , but he did not hear them. The bal st ruck him so hard that he nearl y fel into the water. I t urned t o look at the chil dr en, but ther e wer en39。t any in sight: they had al l r un away! The man laughed when he r eali zed what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chil dr en and threw the bal l back t o the bank. Leson31 Success tory 成功者的故事 Yest er day after noon Fr ank Hawki ns was t el li ng me about his experi ences as a young man. Frank i s now t he head of a very l ar ge busines pany, but as a boy he used to work in a smal shop. It was his j ob t o repair bicycles and at hat time he used to wor k f ourt en hours a day. He saved money for years and i n 1938 he bought a smal l work shop of hi s own. Dur ing the war Frank used t o ma