【正文】 t it upsidedown ?39。 she sai d, 39。 I t39。s a new one. Do you li ke i t ?39。 I answered. 39。 I39。 What ar e you doi ng ?39。about39。about39。 he said. I wonder. In Engl and, each man speaks a di ferent l anguage. The Engl ish under st and each ot her, but I don39。You39。I am a f or ei gner, 39。 leson25 Do the Engli sh speak Engl ish? 英國人講的是英語嗎？ I ar ived i n London at l ast. The r ai lway st at ion was big, black and dar k. I di d not know the way to my hot el , so I asked a por ter. I not only spoke Engli sh ver y carefull y, but ver y clear ly as wel . The port er , however, could not understand me。 I sai d to t he manager , 39。 she sai d. 39。I found t hi s outside this gentl eman39。 he said. He start ed t o plain about t hi s wicked wor ld but was inter upted by a knock at he door . A gi rl came in and put an envelope on his desk. I t cont ai ned amp。Ever yone39。s not t here now.39。 I sai d, 39。50 and I felt ver y upset .39。s father wi l set out with her i n a smal boat. Mr Har t has trained hi s da ughter for year s. Tomor row he wi l be watching her anxiously as she swi ms the long distance to England. Er na 20xx 年農(nóng)村改廁項目建議書 九龍鄉(xiāng)人民政府 20xx 年 4 月 ai r por t was built dur ing the war , but for some reason i t coul d not be used t hen. Last year, however, it came i nt o use. Over a hundred peopl e must have been dri ven away f rom their homes by t he noise. I am one of t he f ew people l ef t. Someti mes I think this house wil be knocked down by a pasing pl ane. I have been of fered a large sum of money to go away, but I am det er mined t o st ay here. Ever ybody says I must be mad and t hey are probably ri ght. Lesson22 A gl ass envel ope 玻璃信封 My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of r eceiving a leter fr om a gi rl of her own age in Holl and. Last year, we wer e tr avel ling a cr oss the Channel and Jane put a pi ece of paper wi th her name and addres on it into a bot tle. She thr ew t he bottl e into t he sea. She never t hought of it again, but ten months later, she recei ved a let er fr om a gi rl in Holl and. Both gir ls wri te to ea ch other r egularly now. However, they have deci ded to use t he post offi ce. Let er s wil cost a lit t1e mor e, but they wil cer tainly tr avel f aster. Leson23 A new house 新居 I had a l et ter f rom my sister yest er day. She l ives i n Niger ia. I n her let er , she sai d that she would e t o England next year. If she es, she wi l get a surpri se. We ar e now li vi ng in a beaut if ul new house in t he countr y. Work on it had begun bef or e my si st er left . The house was pleted f ive mont hs ago. In my l et ter, I t ol d her that she coul d stay wit h us. The house has many large rooms and ther e is a lovel y garden. It is a ver y modern house, so it looks st range t o some peopl e. It must be the only moder n house in t he distr ict. Leson24 It coul d be worse 不幸中之萬幸 I entered the hot el manager39。 car was badly damaged and easy to recognize. Short ly after war ds, t he police st opped t he car and both men wer e ar rest ed. Leson36 Across the Channel 橫渡海峽 Erna Hart is goi ng t o swi m acr oss the English Channel tomor row. She is going to set out fr om the Fr ench coast at f ive o39。 gave39。t any in sight: they had al l r un away! The man laughed when he r eali zed what had happened. He cal ed out t o the chil dr en and threw the bal l back t o the bank. Leson31 Success tory 成功者 的故事 Yest er day after noon Fr ank Hawki ns was t el li ng me about his experi ences as a young man. Frank i s now t he head of a very l ar ge busines pany, but as a boy he used to work in a smal shop. It was his j ob t o repair bicycles and at hat time he used to wor k f ourt en hours a day. He saved money for years and i n 1938 he bought a smal l work shop of hi s own. Dur ing the war Frank used t o make spare par ts for aer oplanes. At that ime he had two hel pers. By the end of t he war, the smal workshop had bee a large fact or y whi ch employed seven hundr ed and t wentyeight people. Fr ank smiled when he remem bered hi s hard early year s and the long r oad t o succes. He was sti l smi li ng when t he door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She wanted hi m to r epair thei r son39。. Thi s wonder ful plane can car y seven passengers. The most sur pr ising thing about it , however, is that i t can land anywher e: on snow, water, or even on a pl oughed fi el d. Capt ai n Fawcet 39。 is a smal Swiss aeropl ane cal led a 39。 signs out si de his gat e, but t hese have not had any ef fect . Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gat e. It is one of the ugl iest faces I have ever sen. I asked him what it was and he told me t hat it was Medusa, the Gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l turn motori st s t o st one. But none of them has been turned to st one yet ! Leson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Captain Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new ser vi ce. The 39。 I l ooked at i t agai n. She was ri ght! I t was! Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜 Late i n the af ternoon, t he boys put up their tent i n the middl e of a fi el d. As soon as thi s was done, they cooked a meal over an open fi re. They wer e al hungry and t he f ood smel t good. Aft er a wonder ful meal, they told st ories and sang songs by the camp fi re. But some ti me later i t began to r ai n. The boys f el t t i r ed so t hey pet out the fi re and crept i nt o thei r tent . Thei r sleepi ngbags were warm and fort able, so t hey al l slept soundly. I n the middl e of t he night, two boys woke up and began shouti ng. The tent was full of water! They al leapt out of t heir sleepingbags and hur ri ed outsi de. It was r ai ni ng heavil y and they found that a str eam had f ormed in the fi el d. The str eam wound i ts way across t he f ield and t hen fl owed ri ght under their tent ! Leson28 No parking 禁止停車 Jasper Whi te is one of those rar e people who bel ieves in ancient my