【正文】 I l it a cigar et te t o calm my nerves. I smoked wi th concent rati on and pleasur e as I was sur e that this woul d be my last ci gar et te. For a whole week I did not s moke at al l and dur ing t his t ime, my wi f e suf fer ed ter ibl y. I had al t he usual sympt oms of som eone givi ng up smoki ng: a bad t emper and an enormous appet it e. My f ri ends kept on of fer ing me ci gar et es and cigar s. They made no ef ort t o hide t hei r am usement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweet s fr om m y pocket. Af ter seven days of this I went to a par ty. Everybody around me was smoking and I f elt ext rem el y un fort abl e. When my ol d f ri end Br i an ur ged me t o acept a ci garet e, i t was more t han I coul d bear . I took one gui lt il y, l it i t and smoked wi th sati sf act ion. My wi f e was del ighted t hat hings had retur ned to nor mal once mor e. Anyway, as Bri an poi nted out, i t i s the easiest t hing i n the wor ld to gi ve up sm oki ng. He hi mself has done i t lots of t im es! Lesson79 By air 乘飛機(jī) I used to t ravel by ai r a great deal when I was a boy. My parents, used t o li ve in Sout h Amer ica and I used t o f ly t her e f rom Europe in the holi days. An air host ess would take char ge of me and I never had an unpl easant exper ience. I am use d t o tr avel li ng by ai r and onl y on one occasion have I ever f el t fr ightened. Af t er t aki ng off , we were fl yi ng low over t he city and sl owl y gaini ng hei ght , when the pl ane suddenly t ur ned r ound and fl ew back to t he air por t. Whil e we wer e wait ing t o land, an ai r host ess tol d us to keep calm and to get off t he pl ane qui etly as soon as it had t ouched down. Everybody on board was wor ri ed and we wer e cur ious t o fi nd out what had happened. Later we l ear nt that there was a ver y im por tant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t ol d t hat a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Af ter we had l anded, the plane was sear ched t hor oughl y. For tunately, nothing was f ound and fi ve hour s later we wer e able t o take of f again. Leson80 The Cryst al Pal ace 水晶宮 Per haps t he most extr aor dinary bui lding of t he nieent h cent ury was the Cr yst al Palace, whi ch was buil t i n Hyde Park for the Gr eat Exhi biti on of 1851. The Cr yst al 。 Leson77 A successf ul operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper ati on. The mum my i s that of Shepenm ut who was once a singer in the Temple of Thebes. As t her e were st range marks on t he X ray plat es t aken of t he mummy, doctors have been tr yi ng to fi nd out whet her t he woman died of a r ar e disease. The onl y way t o do t his was t o oper ate. The oper at ion, which l ast ed for over f our hour s, proved t o be ver y dif f icult because of t he har d r esi n which covered t he skin. The doctors r emoved a secti on of the m um my and sent i t to a l abor atory. They also f ound somethi ng which t he Xr ay of the god Duamutef . Thi s god which has the head of a cow was norm al ly pl aced i nsi de a mumm y. The doctor s have not yet deci ded how t he woman died. They f ear ed that the m um my woul d fal l to pi eces when they cut it open, but fort unat ely t his has not happened. The m ummy successf ull y sur vived t he oper at ion. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter reading an ar ti cl e ent it led 39。 we ar e t aki ng you to t he macar oni f iel ds of Cal abr ia. Macar oni has been grown i n t hi s area f or over six hundred year s. Two of the l eading gr owers, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricardo Br a bant e, t el l me t hat t hey have been expect ing a spl endid cr op thi s year and harvest ing has begun earl ier t han usual . Here you can se two wor kers who, between them, have just f i ni shed cutt ing t hree car t l oads of gol den brown m acaroni stalks. The whole vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hreshi ng thi s year 39。To end our speci al news bull eti n, 39。 SOS39。m Bri nksl ey Meers, and m y other nam e is Gl ori a Gl eam. Now you get out of her e fast !39。 said the sher if f wi th a sneer . 39。 39。t be t oo har d on us. I 39。sai d Rockwal l, 39。 39。m sheri f here. Do you see that not ice ? I t says No Campi ng in case you can39。 he shout ed: 39。 Meanwhi le, two ot her act or s, Rockwal l Slinger and Merl in Greeves, had car ri ed two large f ood baskets t o a shady spot under som e tr es. When t hey had al m ade t hem selves f or table, a str anger appeared. He l ooked very angry. 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm fans! Why don39。t be bet ter , Gl or ia,39。 sai d Gl ori a Gl eam. 39。s fi shi ng, or eight hour s in a ci nem a seing 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 hitch hiked t o Dover and, towards 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, t r avel l ed t o Calais. No one noti ced the boy as he cr ept of f. Fr om t her e, he hi tchhi ked t o Pari s in a lor ry. The dri ver gave him a few biscui ts and a cup of coff e and l eft him just outside t he ci ty. The next car the boy stopped di d not take him int o the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Perpi gnan on t he FrenchSpani sh bor der. There he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by t he local authori ti es. He has surely set up a r ecord for t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading school . Lesson74 O ut of t he li meli ght 舞臺(tái)之外 An ancient bus st opped by a dr y r iver bed and a par ty of f am ous actor s and act resses got of f. Dr esed i n dar k glasses and old cl othes, t hey had t aken speci al pr ecauti ons so t hat no one shoul d r ecognize them. But as they soon di scovered, di sgui ses can som et im es be t oo