【正文】 t ime, he managed t o cli mb i nto t he mouth of Ki tur o so that he coul d take photographs and m easure t emper atur es. Tazi ef has oft en ri sked his l if e in this way. He has been abl e to tel us mor e about active vol canoes than any man ali ve. Lesson68 Persistent 糾纏不休 I cr ossed the st reet o avoid m et ing him , but he saw me and came r unni ng towar ds me. I t was no use pr etending t hat I had not seen him, so I waved to hi m. I never enjoy meeti ng Bert Dykes. He never has anythi ng to do. No mat ter how busy you ar e, he al ways insists on i ng wit h you. I had t o thi nk of a way of pr eventing hi m fr om f oll owi ng me ar ound al l morni ng. 39。so it was f ort unat e that we didn39。Jumbo must weigh a f ew t ons, 39。guar d of honour39。t. Geof fr ey asked her why this was so and she tol d him that she di d not like t o see so many people laughi ng at hi m! Leson64 The Channel Tunnel 海峽隧道 In l 858, a Fr ench engineer , Ai me Thome de Gamond, ar r ived in Engl and wit h a plan f or a twent y one mi le t unnel acr oss t he Engl ish Channel . He sai d t hat it woul d be possibl e to bui ld a pl atf or m in t he cent re of t he Channel. This pl at for m woul d s er ve as a port and a r ai lway st at ion. The tunnel woul d be wel venti lated i f tal chim neys wer e bui lt above seal evel . I n 1860, a bet er plan was put forwar d by an Engli shm an, Wil liam Low. He suggested t hat a double r ai lway tunnel shoul d be buil t. This woul d sol ve the pr obl em of vent il ation, f or i f a tr ain enter ed this tunnel , it would dr aw i n fr esh ai r behi nd it . For ty two year s later a t unnel was act ual ly begun. I f, at the t im e, t he Bri ti sh had not f ear ed invasi on, i t would have been pl et ed. Recent ly, ther e has again been great inter est in the i dea of a Channel Tunnel. If i t is buil t, i t wi l l connect Br it ai n t o Europe f or t he fi rs t ti me i n histor y. Lesson65 Jum bo versus the pol ice 小象對警察 Last Chr istm as, the ci rcus owner , Ji mmy Gates, decided to take som e present s to a chi ldren39。cl ock this evening. By that ti me, the Astr a wi l have been f lying through space f or sevent een hour s and wil l have cir cled t he ear th a gr eat many t im es. When t he fi rst radio mesages have been r ecei ved, the r esul ts of the t ri p wi l be announced imm edi ately. Leson62 Aft er the fi re 大火之后 Fir emen had been f ighti ng the f orest fi re f or near ly t hree weeks bef ore t hey could get i t under cont rol. A shor t ti me befor e, great tr ees had cover ed the countr ysi de for mi les around. Now, smoke sti l r ose up f r om t he war m ground over t he desolate hi l s. Wint er was i ng on and the hil ls t hreatened the sur oundi ng vil ages wi th destr uct ion, for heavy rain woul d not only wash away t he soi l but would cause ser ious fl oods as wel l. When t he fi re had at last been put out, the f orest aut hor it ies ordered sever al tons of a special type of grass seed whi ch would gr ow quickly. The sed was sprayed over t he ground in huge quantit ies by aeroplanes. The pl anes had been pl ant ing seed for near ly a month when i t began t o rai n. By then, however , in many pl aces t he gras had al ready taken root. I n place of the gr eat tr ees which had been gr owing t her e f or centur ies, patches of gr een had begun to appear in t he blackened soi l. Leson63 She was not am used 她并不覺得好笑 Geoff rey Ham pden has a l ar ge cir cl e of fr iends and is very popular at par ti es. Everybody admir es hi m f or his f ine sense of humoreverybody, t hat i s, except his six year old daughter , Jenny. Recent ly, one of Geof fr ey39。Your si st er wi l l be her e in l es t han an hour a nd we m ust be at the stati on to meet her. We are l ate alr eady. 39。Wher e have you been hidi ng ?39。A r elati on of your s is i ng to see you. She wi l be ar ri vi ng thi s evening and i ntends to stay f or a few days. The moment you leave t his t ent , you wil l get a big sur pri se. A wom an you know wel wi l r ush t owards you. She wi l speak to you and then she wi l lead you away fr om this pl ace. That i s al l. 39。m Br inksley Mer s, and my ot her name i s Glor ia Gl eam. Now you get out of here f ast ! 39。 sai d t he sheri f wi th a sneer. 39。 39。t be too hard on us. I 39。said Rockwal ,39。 39。m sher if f her e. Do you see t hat noti ce ? It says No Camping i n case you can39。 he shouted: 39。 Meanwhi le, two ot her actor s, Rockwal Sl inger and Mer li n Gr eeves, had car ied t wo l ar ge food basket s to a shady spot under some t rees. When they had al l made themselves fort abl e, a st ranger appear ed. He looked ver y angr y. 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm f ans! Why don39。t be beter , Glor ia,39。 said Gl ori a Gl eam. 39。s f ishing, or ei ght hours i n a cinema seei ng the same f il m over and over agai n, i s usual l y as f ar as t hey get. They have al l been put to shame by a boy who, whi le pl ayi ng tr uant , t ravel ed 1600 m il es. He hit c h hi ked to Dover and, t owar ds evening, went into a boat to fi nd som ewher e to sl ep. When he woke up next morni ng, he discover ed that the boat had, in t he meant im e, t ravel led t o Calai s. No one noti ced the boy as he crept of f . Fr om t her e, he hi tchhi ked to Pari s in a lor ry. The dri ver gave him a f ew biscui ts and a cup of coff e and l eft him j ust 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 Per pi gnan on the Fr enchSpanish border. There he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by t he local author it es. He has surely set up a r ecor d for t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading school . Lesson74 O ut of t he l imel ight 舞臺之外 An anci ent 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 essed