【正文】 we are taking you to t he macar oni fi elds of Calabria. Macaroni has been grown in t hi s area for over six hundr ed years. Two of the leading grower s, Giuseppe Mol dova and Ricar do Br abant e, te l me that t hey have been expecting a spl endi d cr op this year and harvest ing has begun ear li er than usual. Here you can see two worker s who, between t hem, have j ust fi ni shed cutti ng t hr e cart loads of golden br own macaroni stalks. The whol e vi l age has been wor ki ng day and night gat heri ng and threshing this year 39。To end our speci al news bulleti n, 39。 SOS39。m Bri nksl ey Mers, and my ot her name is Gl or ia Gleam. Now you get out of her e f ast !39。 said t he sher if wi th a sneer . 39。 39。t be too har d on us. I 39。said Rockwal ,39。 39。m sheri f here. Do you se that notice ? It says No Campi ng in case you can39。 he shouted: 39。 Meanwhile, two other act or s, Rockwal l Sl i nger and Mer lin Gr eves, had car ied two large f ood baskets to a shady spot under some tr es. When they had al made t hemsel ves for tabl e, a st ranger appear ed. He looked very angr y. 39。No newspaper men, no f il m fans! Why don39。t be bet ter, Glori a, 39。 sai d Gloria Gl eam. 39。s f ishi ng, or eight hour s in a ci nema seing the same fi lm over and over again, is usual ly as f ar as they get. They have al l been put t o shame by a boy who, whil e playing tr uant, travel led 1600 miles. He hitch hiked to Dover and, t owards eveni ng, went into a boat to f ind somewhere to sleep. When he woke up next mor ni ng, he discover ed t hat the boat had, in t he meanti me, tr aveled to Calais. No one not iced the boy as he cr ept off. From t here, he hit chhiked to Par is in a l or ry. The driver gave him a few biscuit s and a cup of coffee and l ef t him just out si de t he city. The next car the boy s topped di d not take him into the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the Fr ench Spani sh border . Ther e he was picked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by t he l ocal aut hor it es. He has urely set up a r ecord f or the thousands of boys who dr eam of evadi ng school . Leson74 Out of the li mel ight 舞臺之外 An ancient bus stopped by a dr y ri ver bed and a par ty of famous actors and actr esses got of f. Dresed in dar k gl asses and old clothes, t hey had t aken special pr ecaut ions so that no one shoul d recogni ze t hem. But as t hey soon discovered, disgui ses can sometimes be t oo perf ect. 39。s foot st eps many years l at er , Sir Malcolm39。 you have j ust ki led that child ! 39。Mr Eames, 39。Just one more t hi ng, Mr Eames. Let us suppose that a child suddenly cr osses the road i n fr ont of you. As soon as I tap on t he wi ndow, I want the car to be st opped i mmediately.39。wait ing room !39。 There39。l l e with you, 39。 39。but I39。 he asked, before I had f inished speaking. ‘ Not at al l,39。m going t o. . 39。 I answer ed.39。 39。 I was just wondering how to spend the mor ni ngunt il I saw you. You39。Hullo, Elizabeth,39。Fancy meet ing you her e !39。Hullo, Ber t,39。t have to car ry him. Of cour se, we should ar est hi m, but as he has a good record, we shal l et him of f t hi s time.39。 sai d a poli ceman af ter war ds, 39。 of six pret y gir ls, he set off down t he main st r et of the ci ty ri di ng a baby el phant cal led Jumbo. He, should have known that t he pol ice woul d never al low t hi s ort of t hi ng. A poli ceman approached Jimmy and t ol d him he ought t o have gone al ong a si destr et as Jumbo was hol di ng up t he t rafi c. Though Jimm y agreed t o go at once, Jumbo ref used t o m ove. Fi f t een pol icemen had t o push very har d to get him of f the m ain str et. The poli ce had a dif fi cult ti me, but they wer e most amused. 39。s hospi tal. Dresed up as Father Chri stm as and ac panied by a 39。 I l it a ci garet e t o calm my ner ves. I smoked wi th concentr ati on and pl easur e as I was sur e that this would be my last ci garet e. For a whol e wek I di d not smoke at al l and dur ing this ti me, my wif e suff er ed t er ri bl y. I had al the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoki ng: a bad temper and an enormous appeti te. My fri ends kept on offeri ng 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 epar ed the speech carefull y and went to the wedding wit h Jenny. He had incl uded a l ar ge number of f unny st or ies in the speech and, of course, it was a gr eat success. As soon as he had f inished, Jenny t old him she wanted to go home. Geof fr ey was a lit tl e di sappointed by t hi s but he did as hi s daughter asked. On t he way home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech. To his sur pr ise, she said she hadn39。 Leson77 A succesful operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egypti an woman who died in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper at ion. The mummy i s t hat of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Templ e of Thebes. As t her e were str ange mar ks on the Xr ay plates taken of t he mummy, doct or s have been t rying to f ind out whether t he woman di ed of a rare disease. The onl y way t o do t hi s was t o operate. The operation, which lasted for over f our hours, proved t o be very dif icult because of the hard r esin which cover ed t he skin. The doctors removed a section of t he mummy and sent it to a l aboratory. They also found somet hi ng which the Xr ay of the god Duamutef. Thi s god which has the head of a cow was nor mal ly placed insi de a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They f eared that he