【正文】 A r el at ion of your s i s ing to see you.。. Because t he t ree was ment ioned in a newspaper, the number of vi si tors to Fri nl ey has now i ncreased. The t ree was plant ed near a church fi fty year s ago, but i t i s only i n recent years t hat it has gained an evil reputati on. It is sai d that if anyone t ouches the tree, he wil l have bad l uck。 has been invented and i t has been used to detect gol d whi ch has been bur ied in t he ground. The machine was used in a cave near the seashor e where it is sai dpir at es used to hide gol d. The pir at es woul d often bur y gold i n the cave and then f ai l to col lect it . Ar med wi th the new machi ne, a sear ch party went he di d not like it . She enjoyed herself making the assi stant br ing al most ever yt hi ng i n the window before f inal ly buying the dres she had f ir st asked f or . Leson58 A blesing in di sgui se? 是因禍得福嗎？ The t iny vi l age of Fri nl ey i s said to possess a 39。 Leson53 Hot snake 觸電的蛇 At last fi remen have put out a big f or est f ir e in Calif or ni a. Since t hen, t hey have been tr yi ng t o find out how the fi re began. For est f ir e ar e of ten caused by broken glas or by ci gar et te ends whi ch people car el essl y throw away. Yesterday t he f ir emen examined t he ground carefull y, but wer e not abl e t o fi nd any br oken gl ass. They were also quite sure that a cigar et te end did not start the f ire. This morning, however, a fir eman acident al ly discovered the cause. He noti ced the remai ns of a snake which was wound round t he electri c wires of a 16,000volt power l ine. I n this way, he was able t o solve the mystery. The explanat ion was simple but ver y unusual. A bird had snat ched up t he snake from the gr ound and then dr opped i t on to t he wi res. The snake then wound i tself r ound the wires. When it di d so, it sent sparks down t o the gr ound and these immediately started a fi re. Leson54 St icky fingers 粘糊的手指 Af ter breakf ast, I sent the chi ldren to school and t hen I went to market . I t was st il ear ly when I r et ur ned home. The chi ldren wer e at school, my husband was at wor k and the house was quiet. So I deci ded to m ake some tart s f or t ea. In a short ti me I was busy mixing but ter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sti cky pastr y. At exactl y that moment, t he telephone rang. Not hi ng coul d have been mor e annoying. I picked up t he r eceiver bet wen two sticky finger s and was dismayed when I recogni zed the voi ce of Mrs Bates. It took me ten minut es to persuade her to ri ng back l at er . At last I hung up the receiver . What a mess! Ther e was pastr y on my f ingers, on t he t el ephone, and on the door knobs. I had no sooner got back t o the ki tchen than t he door bel rang l oud enough t o wake the dead. Thi s time i t was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a r egi stered let er ! Lesson55 Not a gold mi ne 并非金礦 Dr eams of f inding lost tr easur e almost came t rue recentl y. A new machine caled 39。You don39。Thi s is the preti est carpet I have ever sen,39。Wel, in t hat case, I pr ef er to stay on t he bus, 39。 We ar e going back now,39。I 39。t mat er ,39。 39。 sai d the conductor suddenl y. 39。 I asked. 39。 39。 t he conduct or said. 39。 、 效益分析 本項目實(shí)施后，每年向環(huán)境排放的畜禽污水可以減少 2044噸左右，生產(chǎn) 噸的有機(jī)生物復(fù)合肥年收入 萬元，替代能源收入 40 萬元。 投資估算 與資金籌措 本 項目總投資 萬元，其中土建 工程 13 萬元， 儀器設(shè)備投資 萬元，工程建設(shè)其他費(fèi) 萬元，基本預(yù)備費(fèi) 萬元。s closest fr iends asked him to make a speech at a weddi ng r ecept ion. Thi s i s the sor t of thing that Geof fr ey l oves. He pr epared the speech carefull y and went to t he wedding wit h Jenny. He had incl uded a lar ge number of f unny st or ies in the speech and, of course, i t was a gr eat succes. As son as he had f inished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffr ey was a li 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。 As she wal ked away, I f ol lowed her out of the fair . Lesson61 Trouble wi th t he Hubble 哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡的困境 I n future, astronauts wi l be r equired to descend fr om a spaceship whil e it is stil l i n space and t o return t o it. The abi l i t y to do this wil l be necessar y in futur e f li ghts t o di stant pla s. Sci enti st are now tr yi ng t o di scover if this is possible. The spaceship Astr a whi ch lef t he ear th a short ti me ago, wi l be t ravel ing three hundred miles into space. At a certain point, the Ast ra wil l stop for a short tim e and an ast ronaut wi l atempt t o leave the st at ionary spaceshi p and the n return t o it. We shal not know whether the experiment has been successf ul unt il we have received a r adio m essage. The f irs t message i s expected to ar ive at 7 o39。 she asked impat ient ly. 39。 As soon as I went out si de, I f ot al about Madam Bel insky because my wi fe hur ri ed t owards me. 39。 i f he picks a l eaf, he wil die. Many vi lager s beli eve that t he t ree has al ready cl ai med a number of victi ms. The vicar has been asked to have the tr e cut down, but so f ar he has refused. He has pointed out that the tr e i s a usef ul source of i ne as touri st have been i ng f rom al par ts of t he countr y to se it . I n spit e of al that has been sai d, the t our i sts have been picki ng l eaves and cutti ng t heir names on the treetr unk. So f ar , not one of them has been struck down by sudden death! Leson59 In or out ？ 進(jìn)來還是出去？ Our dog, Rex, used to sit outside our fr ont gat e and bark. Every t ime he wanted to e i nt o the garden he would bar k unti l someone opened the gate. As t he neighbour s plained of the noise, my husband spent weeks tr aini ng him to pres his paw on t he latch to l et himsel f i n. Rex soon became an expert at opening the gat e. However , when I was goi ng out shoppi ng l ast wek, I not iced him in the gar den near the gate