【正文】 t it upsi de down ?39。 she said, 39。 It 39。s a new one. Do you li ke it ?39。 I answer ed. 39。 I 39。 What ar e you doi ng ?39。about 39。about39。 he said. I wonder . In Engl and, each m an speaks a dif ferent language. The Engl ish understand each ot her , but I don39。You39。I am a f orei gner ,39。 lesson25 Do the Engl ish speak English? 英國人講的 是 英語嗎？ I ar ri ved in London at l ast . The rail way stati on was big, black and dar k. I di d not know the way t o my hot el , so I asked a port er . I not only spoke Engli sh ver y car eful ly, but very cl ear ly as wel l. The port er , however , could not under stand me。 I said t o the manager, 39。 she sai d. 39。I found thi s out side thi s gent leman39。 he said. He st ar ted t o plain about thi s wicked worl d but was inter rupted by a knock at the door. A gir l came i n and put an envelope on his desk. I t cont ai ned amp。Ever yone39。s not there now. 39。 I said, 39。 50 and I felt very upset. 39。s f ather wil l set out wi th her i n a smal boat. Mr Har t has t rai ned hi s daughter f or years. Tomorr ow he wi l be wat chi ng her anxiousl y as she swi ms t he long dist ance to Engl and. Er na 年產(chǎn) 80000 立方米中（高）密度纖維板項(xiàng)目 可 行 性 研 究 報(bào) 告 ai r por t was buil t dur ing the war, but for some r eason it could not be used t hen. Last year, however , it cam e int o use. Over a hundr ed people must have been dr iven away f rom their homes by the noi se. I am one of the f ew peopl e lef t. Someti mes I thi nk this house wil l be knocked down by a pasi ng pl ane. I have been of fered a large sum of m oney t o go away, but I am deter mined t o stay here. Ever ybody says I must be mad and they are pr obably ri ght . Lesson22 A glass envel ope 玻璃信封 My daughter , Jane, never dr eamed of r ecei vi ng a l et ter fr om a gir l of her own age in Hol land. Last year , we wer e tr avel ing a cr oss t he Channel and Jane put a pi ece of paper wi th her name and addr es on it int o a bott le. She threw the bott le i nto t he sea. She never thought of i t again, but ten months l ater, she received a let ter fr om a gi rl i n Hol land. Bot h gir ls wr it e t o each ot her r egul ar ly now. However, t hey have deci ded to use the post off ice. Let ters wil l cost a li t 1e more, but t hey wil l cer tainl y tr avel f ast er . Lesson23 A new house 新居 I had a let ter fr om my sister yest er day. She li ves in Ni geri a. I n her l eter , she said t hat she would e t o England next year. I f she es, she wi l get a sur pri se. We ar e now l iving i n a beaut if ul new house i n the count r y. Work on i t had begun befor e my sist er l ef t. The house was pl eted f ive months ago. In m y let ter, I t ol d her that she could stay wi t h us. The house has many l ar ge r ooms and t her e i s a lovely garden. It i s a ver y m odern house, so i t looks st range to some people. It m ust be the onl y moder n house in t he distr ict. Lesson24 It coul d be worse 不幸中之萬幸 I ent er ed the hotel manager 39。 car was badl y dam aged and easy to r ecogni ze. Shor tl y aft er war ds, t he poli ce st opped t he car and bot h m en wer e ar r ested. Lesson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Er na Hart i s goi ng to swi m acr oss t he Engl ish Channel t om or r ow. She i s goi ng t o set out fr om t he French coast at f ive o39。 gave39。t any i n sight: t hey had al l run away! The man laughed when he reali zed what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chi ldren and t hr ew t he bal l back t o the bank. Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事 Yest erday aft ernoon Frank Hawki ns was t el ing me about his exper iences as a young man. Frank is now the head of a ver y l ar ge busi ness pany, but as a boy he used to wor k i n a smal shop. I t was hi s job t o r epai r bi cycl es and at that ti me he used to wor k f our teen hours a day. He saved money f or years and i n 1938 he bought a smal wor k shop of hi s own. Dur ing t he war Frank used to m ake spare part s for aeroplanes. At t hat t ime he had t wo helper s. By t he end of t he war, t he sm al l work shop had bee a lar ge factory which empl oyed seven hundred and t went yeight peopl e. Fr ank smi led when he r emembered his har d ear ly years and t he long r oad to success. He was st il smi li ng when the door opened and his wi fe came i n. She want ed him to r epai r t hei r son39。. This wonder ful plane can car ry seven passenger s. The most sur pri si ng thi ng about it , however, i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed f iel d. Captai n Fawcet t39。 i s a smal Swi s aeroplane cal ed a 39。 si gns out si de his gate, but t hese have not had any ef ect . Now he has put an ugl y st one head over the gate. It i s one of t he ugl iest faces I have ever se en. I asked hi m what it was and he t ol d me that i t was Medusa, the Gor gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wil l tur n motor ists t o stone. But none of them has been tur ned t o stone yet! Leson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Captai n Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 39。 I looked at it agai n. She was r ight! I t was! Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜 Late i n t he af ter noon, the boys put up t hei r tent in the mi ddl e of a f ield. As soon as this was done, t hey cooked a meal over an open fi re. They were al l hungry and t he food smelt good. Aft er a wonder ful meal, they t old stor ies and sang songs by the camp f ir e. But some ti me l ater it began t o r ai n. The boys f el t ti red so t hey pet out t he fi re and cr ept i nto t hei r tent. Their sleepi ngbags were war m and f ort abl e, so t hey al l sl ept soundly. I n the middle of t he night, two boys woke up and began shouti ng. The t ent was f ull of water! They al l eapt out of t hei r sl eepi ng bags and hurr ied out si de. I t was r ai ni ng heavi ly and t hey found that a str eam had for med in the f ield. The