【正文】 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 t his t im e.39。 of six pr et ty gir ls, he set of f down the main street of the city r iding a baby elephant caled J umbo. He, should have known t hat the police would never alow t his sor t of thing. A policeman appr oached J immy and t old him he ought t o have gone along a sidestr eet as J umbo was holding up t he t rafic. Though J imm y agreed t o go at once, J um bo r ef used t o m ove. 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 most am used. 39。s closest f riends asked him t o make a speech at a wedding r ecept ion. This t he sor t of thing that Geofr ey loves. He pr epared the s peech car efuly and went o t he wedding wit h Jenny. He had included a lar ge number of uny stories in t he speech and, of course, it was a great sucess. As oon as he had f inished, Jenny t old him she wanted to go home. Geof rey was a lit t le disappoint ed by this but he did as his daughter asked. On t he way home, he asked J enny if she had enjoyed t he speech. To his surprise, she said she hadn39。 she asked impatiently. 39。 if he picks a leaf, he wil die. M any v ilagers believe t hat he t r ee has alr eady claim ed a num ber of victim s. The vicar has been asked t o have t he t ree cut down, but so f ar he has r ef used. He has point ed out t hat he t r ee is a usef ul sour ce of in e as t ourist s have been ing f r om al par t s of t he count r y t o see it . I n spit e of alt hat has been said, t he t our ist s have been picking leaves and cut ing their names on t he t reet runk. So f ar , not one of t hem has been st ruck down by sudden death! Lesson59 I n or out ？ 進(jìn)來還是出去？ Our dog, Rex, used t o sit out side our f ront gate and bark. Every tim e he wanted to e int o the gar den he would bark until s omeone opened the gat e. As t he neighbours plained of t he noise, m y husband spent weeks t r aining him t o press his paw on t he lat ch t o let himself in. Rex soon became an expert at opening the gat e. However , when Iwas going out shopping last week, I not iced him in t he gar den near the gat e. This t ime he was barking so t hat someone would let him out ! Since then, he has developed anot her bad habit . As son as he opens t he gate f rom t he outside, he es int o t he garden and wait s unt il t he gate shut s. Then he sit s and bar ks until someone let s him out . Af ter t his he immediat ely let s himself in and begins barking again. Yest er day my husband removed t he gate and Rex got so annoyed we have not seen him since. Lesson60 The f ut ure 卜算未來 At a vilage f air , I decided to visit a fort uneteler caled Madam Bellinsky. I went int o her t ent and she t old m e t o sit down. Af ter I had given her some money, she looked int o a cryst al bal and said: 39。s crop bef or e t he September r ains. On t he r ight , you can see Mr s Br abant e her self . She has been helping her husband f or thir ty year s now. Mrs Brabante is t alking t o t he manager of t he local f actory wher e the crop is pr ocessed. This last scene shows you what wil happen at t he end of the har vest : t he f amous Calabrian macaronieating petit ion !Signor Fr at eli, t he present champion, has won it ever y ear since 1961. And t hat ends our special bulet in f or t oday, Thursday, April 1st . We ar e now r eturning you t o t he st udio.39。 in t he snow. Fort unately, a pilot saw t he signal nd sent a message by r adio t o the near est own. It was not long before a helicopt er ar ived on the scene t o r escue t he survivors of t he plane cr ash. Lesson76 April Fools Day 愚人節(jié) 39。Well, I 39。t be too har d on us. I 39。t r ead !39。Now you gut out of here, al of you! 39。 Br inksley M eer s agreed. 39。This is a wonderf ul place f or a piic, 39。 lesson70 Red f or danger 危險的紅色 During a bulf ight, a drunk sudenly wander ed int o t he middle of the ring. The crowd began t o shout , but he dr unk was unawar e of t he danger. The bul was busy wit h t he matador at he tim e, but it suddenly caught sight of t he dr unk who was shouting r ude r emarks and waving a r ed cap. Aparently sensitve t o cr it icsm, the bul f or got al about the matador and char ged at he dr unk. The cr owd sudenly gr ew quiet. The dr unk, however, seem ed quite sure of himself. When t he bul got close t o him , he clumsily st epped aside t o let it pass. The crowd br oke int o cheer s and the drunk bowed. By t his t im e, however , t hr ee m en had e into t he r ing and t hey quickly draged t he dr unk t o safety. Even t he bul seemed t o feel sor y f or him, for it looked on sympat heticaly until he drunk was out of t he way before once more t urning it s at ent ion t o the matador . Lesson71 A f amous clock 一個著名的大鐘 When you vist London, one of the fir st hings you wil see is Big Ben, t he f amous clock which can be hear d al over t he world on t he B. B. C. If t he Houses of Parliam ent had hot been burned down in 1834, t he gr eat clock would never have been erect ed. Big Ben t akes it s name f rom Sir Benjamin Hal who was r esponsible f or t he making of the clock when t he new Houses of Par liament were being built . I t is not only of immense size, but is ext remely acur at e as well. Of icials fr om Gr eenwich Observat ory have the clock checked t wice a day. On t he B. B. C. you can hear t he clock when it is act ualy str iking because m icr ophones are connected to t he clock t ower . Big Ben has rar ely gone wr ong. Once, however , it f ailed t o give t he cor rect tim e. A paint er who had been wor king on t he tower hung a pot of paint on one of t he hands and slowed it down ! Lesson72 A car called Bluebir d “藍(lán)鳥”汽車 The great r acing driver, Sir Malcolm Campbell, was t he f ir st man to dr ive at over 300 miles per hour . He set up a