【正文】 They wil l al so be bui lding new roads and a special rai lwayl ine. The Games wil l be hel d just outside t he capit al and t he whole area wi l be cal ed 39。s f ather wil l set out wit h her i n a smal boat. Mr Har t has tr ai ned hi s daughter f or year s. Tomor row he wi l be watching her anxi ousl y as she swi ms the l ong distance to Engl and. Erna i ntends to t ake short r est s ever y two hour s. She wi l have som et hing t o dri nk but she wi l not eat any sol id f ood. Most of Erna39。 gave39。. Thi s wonderf ul pl ane can car y seven pasenger s. The m ost sur pri si ng t hi ng about it , however, i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water, or even on a pl oughed fi el d. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。 signs out side his gate, but these have not had any ef ect . Now he has put an ugl y stone head over the gate. It i s one of t he ugliest faces I ha ve ever seen. I asked hi m what i t was and he t old m e that it was Medusa, t he Gor gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wi l tur n mot or ist s to stone. But none of them has been tur ned to stone yet! Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車(chē)！ Capt ain Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new ser vi ce. The 39。but i sn39。 She l ooked at it cr it ical ly for a mom ent .39。m hangi ng this pi ct ure on the wal ,39。 anyt hi ng. They ar e just pr et y pat ter ns. We li ke them i n t he same way that we li ke pret y curt ai n mat er ial . I t hink t hat young chi ldr en of ten appreciate m oder n pi ctures bet er t han anyone else. They noti ce more. My si st er is only seven, but she al ways t els me whether my pi ct ures are good or not. She cam e int o my r oom yesterday. 39。t understand them ! Do t hey speak Engl ish ? l esson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an ar t st udent and I paint a l ot of pi ct ures. Many people pr etend that they under stand modern ar t. They always tel l you what a pict ure i s 39。 I sai d. Then he spoke sl owly, but I could not under stand him. My teacher never spoke Engl ish l ike t hat ! The por ter and I looked at each other and smi led. Then he said somet hi ng and I under st ood it . 39。t have t oo many hats,39。A man can never have too i nt o t he cave hoping t o fi nd buri ed tr easure. The leader of t he par ty was examini ng the soil near t he ent rance to the cave when the machine showed that here was gold under the gr ound. Very excit ed, t he par ty dug a hol e two feet deep. They f i nal ly f ound a smal l gol d coin whi ch was almost wort hless. The part y then sear ched t he whole cave thoroughly but did not f ind anything except an empty ti n tr unk. I n spite of t his, many people ar e conf ident that 39。 I need not r emind you of that ter ri bl e ti e you bought yest er day. 39。 I r em ar ked suddenly. I regret ted sayi ng it almost at once. 39。 my wif e answer ed as she l ooked at her sel f in t he mi r or . I sat down on one of those modern chair s wit h holes i n it and wait ed. We had been i n the hat shop for hal f an hour and my wif e was sti l in fr ont of t he mir ror . 39。Do you cal l that a hat ?39。 Young man, 39。 Wi l you be staying i n England?39。Wi l you be spendi ng your holi days abroad t hi s year ?39。Wil l you be seeing i t ?39。 I am Mr John Gi lbert .39。. Wor kers wi l have pleted t he new roads by the end of thi s year . By the end of next year, they wi l have fi nished work on t he new stadium. The f ine m oder n bui ldi ngs have been designed by Kur t Gunt er . Ever ybody wil l be watching anxiousl y as the new bui ldings go up. We ar e al ver y excit ed and ar e looking f orwar d to the Ol ympic Games because t hey have never been hel d before in t his count ry. Leson38 Everyt hing except t he weather 惟獨(dú)沒(méi)有考慮到天氣 My ol d f ri end, Har ison, had l ived i n the Medi ter ranean for many year s bef ore he retur ned to England. He had oft en dr eamed of reti ri ng in Engl and and had pl anned t o set t le down in t he count ry. He had no sooner r et urned than he bought a f ine house and went t o li ve there. Al most i mmediat el y he began t o plai n about the weather , f or even t hough i t was st il l summ er , it r ained cont inualy and it was oft en bit erl y cold. Aft er so m any years of sunshi ne, Har i son got a shock. He acted as if he had never l ived in Engl and bef ore. In t he end, i t was m ore t han he could bear . He had har dly had t ime t o setl e down when he sold t he house and lef t the count ry. The dream he had had f or so many years ended ther e. Har ri son had t hought of everyt hi ng except the weather . Lesson39 Am I al l ri ght ? 我是否痊愈？ Whi le John Gi lbert was i n hospi tal, he asked hi s doctor t o tel l hi m whet her hi s oper at ion had been successful , but the doctor r ef used t o do so. The foll owing day, the pati ent asked f or a bedside telephone. When he was al one, he telephoned t he hospi tal exchange and asked f or Doct or Mi l ington. When t he doctor answer ed the phone, Mr Gil ber t sai d he was inquir ing about a cer tain pat ient, a Mr John Gi lbert . He asked i f Mr Gi lbert 39。s mother, who swam the Channel herself when she was a gir l. Lesson37 The Olympi c Games 奧 林 匹克運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì) The Ol ympic Gam es wi l l be held in our count ry in f our years39。 car was badly dam aged and easy t o r ecognize. Short ly af ter wards, the poli ce st opped t he car and bot h men wer e ar est ed. Leson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Erna Har t is going t o swim across the Engli sh Channel tomor row. She is goi ng to set out f rom the Fr ench coast at fi ve o39。t any i n sight: t hey had al r un away! The m an laughed when he r eal ized what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chil dren and thr ew t he bal l back t o the bank. Leson31 Success st ory 成功者的故事 Yest er day aft er noon Frank Hawkins was t el li ng me about hi s exper iences as a young man. Fr ank is now the head of a ver y lar ge business pany, but as a boy he used t o