【正文】 we ar e taking you t o the m acaroni f ields of Calabri a. Macar oni has been gr own i n thi s ar ea for。To end our special news bullet in,39。 SOS39。m Br inksl ey Meers, and my ot her name i s Glor ia Gl eam . Now you get out of here f ast !39。 sai d the sheri f wi th a sneer. 39。 39。t be too hard on us. I39。said Rockwal ,39。 39。m sher if f her e. Do you see t hat noti ce ? It says No Cam ping in case you can39。 he shouted: 39。 Meanwhil e, t wo other act ors, Rockwal l Sl i nger and Mer li n Gr eves, had car ied t wo l ar ge food basket s to a shady spot under some t rees. When t hey had al l made themsel ves f ort abl e, a st ranger appear ed. He looked ver y angr y. 39。No newspaper m en, no f il m f ans! Why don39。t be bet er, Gl or i a, 39。 said Glor ia Gl eam. 39。s fi shi ng, or eight hour s in a ci nem a sei ng the sam e fi lm over and over again, i s usual y as far as they get. They have al been put t o sham e by a boy who, whil e playing t ruant, tr avel led 1600 mi les. He hit ch hiked t o Dover and, towar ds evening, went i nt o a boat to f ind somewhere t o sleep. When he woke up next mor ning, he di scovered t hat t he boat had, i n the meanti me, tr avel led to Calais. No one not i ced t he boy as he cr ept off . From there, he hit ch hiked to Par is i n a l orr y. The dr iver gave hi m a few bi scuit s and a cup of cof fee and lef t hi m just out si de the cit y. The next car t he boy st opped did not t ake hi m i nto t he cent re of Pari s as he hoped i t woul d, but t o Per pignan on t he Fr ench Spanish bor der . Ther e he was picked up by a poli ceman and sent back to Engl and by the l ocal aut hor it ies. He has sur el y set up a recor d f or the t housands of boys who dream of evadi ng school. Leson74 Out of the lim elight 舞臺(tái)之外 An anci ent bus stopped by a dry ri ver bed and a part y of famous act ors and actr esses got off . Dr essed in dark glases and ol d clot hes, they had taken special precaut ions so that no one should recogni ze t hem. But as t hey soon discover ed, disguises can someti mes be too per fect. 39。s f oot st eps m any years later, Si r Malcolm 39。 you have just kil ed that chi ld !39。Mr Eames,39。Just one mor e thi ng, Mr Eam es. Let us suppose t hat a chil d suddenly cr osses the r oad i n f ront of you. As soon as I tap on t he window, I want t he car t o be stopped imm edi at ely.39。wai t ing r oom ! 39。 Ther e39。l l e wi th you,39。m going to t he dent ist. 39。 I lied, 39。Woul d you mi nd my i ng wi th you ?39。m going t o.. .39。 I answer ed. 39。 39。 I was j ust wonder ing how to spend the m or ningunti l I saw you. You39。Hul lo, Eli zabeth,39。Fancy meet ing you here ! 39。Hul l o, Ber t, 39。t have t o car y him. Of course, we shoul d ar est him , but as he has a good r ecor d, we shal l et hi m of f thi s tim e.39。 sai d a poli cem an af ter wards, 39。 of si x pr et ty gi rl s, he set of f down t he m ai n str eet of t he ci ty r i di ng a baby el ephant cal ed Jum bo. He, shoul d have known t hat t he pol i ce woul d never al ow t hi s sor t of thi ng. A pol icem an appr oached Jimm y and tol d hi m he ought t o have gone along a si dest reet as Jum bo was hol di ng up the t raf i c. Though Ji mm y agr eed t o go at once, Jum bo ref used t o m ove. Fi f t een poli cem en had t o push ver y hard t o get hi m of f the m ai n str et . The pol ice had a dif fi cul t ti me, but t hey wer e most am used. 39。s hospi t al. Dresse d up as Father Chri st mas and apani ed by a 39。 I l it a cigaret te t o cal m my nerves. I smoked wit h concentr ati on and pl easure as I was sure t hat t his woul d be my l ast cigaret te. For a whol e week I did not s moke at al l and duri ng thi s ti me, my wi fe suf fered t er ibl y. I had al t he usual sympt om s of someone giving up sm oki ng: a bad t em per and an enor mous appet it e. My fr iends kept on of fer ing m e ci gar et t es and ci gar s. They m ade no ef f or t t o hi de t hei r am usem ent whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweet s f r om m y pocket . Af t er seven days of t hi s I went t o a par t y. Ever ybody ar ound m e was sm oki ng and I f el t ext r em el y un f or t abl e. When m y ol d f r i end Br i an ur ged m e t o accept a ci gar et t e, i t was m or e t han I coul d bear . I t ook one gui l t i l y, l i t i t and Geof f r ey l oves. He pr epared t he speech car efull y and went to t he weddi ng wi th Jenny. He had i ncl uded a l arge number of funny stori es in t he speech and, of cour se, it was a gr eat success. As soon as he had f ini shed, Jenny tol d him she want ed to go hom e. Geof fr ey was a li t le di sappoi nted by t his but he di d as his daught er asked. On the way home, he asked Jenny i f she had enjoyed the speech. To his surpr ise, she sai d she hadn39。 Leson77 A successful operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has just had an operati on. The m um my i s that of Shepenm ut who was once a si nger in the Temple of Thebes. As t her e wer e st range mar ks on the X ray pl at es taken of t he mummy, doctor s have been tr ying t o fi nd out whet her t he woman died of a r are di sease. The only way t o do t his was t o oper at e. The operat ion, which l asted f or over f our hours, proved to be ver y dif fi cul t because of t he har d r esin which cover ed the skin. The doct ors r emoved a secti on of the mumm y and sent it t o a l abor at ory. They al so found something whi ch the X r ay of t he god Duamutef . Thi s god which has the head of a cow was normal ly pl aced i nsi de a mummy. The doct ors have not yet deci ded how the wom an di ed. They f ear ed that the mum my would fal t o pieces when they cut i t open, but f ort unat el y thi s has not happened. The m um my successf ull y sur vived the operat ion. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Aft er readi ng an art icle ent it led 39。 we ar e taking you t o the m ac