【正文】 ng. He hi mself has done i t lots of t imes! Lesson79 By air 乘飛機 I used to t ravel by ai r a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ent s, used to l ive i n South Am er i ca and I used to f ly there f rom Europe i n the hol idays. An ai rhost es woul d take char ge of me and I never had an unpl easant experi ence. I am used t o t ravel li ng by air and only on one occasion have I ever f elt f ri ght ened. Aft er taking of f, we wer e f lying l ow over the cit y and slowly gai ning height, when t he pl ane suddenl y t ur ned round and fl ew back to the air por t. Whil e we wer e wait ing t o land, an ai r host ess t ol d us to keep calm and to get off t he plane qui etl y as soon as it had t ouched down. Ever ybody on board was wor r ied 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 impor tant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t old t hat a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Af ter we had l anded, the plane was s ear 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 ldi ng of t he nieenth century was the Cr yst al Palace, which was buil t i n Hyde Park for t he Great Exhi bit ion of 1851. The Cr yst al Palace was di f f er ent f rom al other bui ldi ngs i n t he worl d, f or it was made of ir on and glas. It was one of the bi ggest bui ldings of al t ime and a l ot of people f rom many count ri es came to see it . A gr eat ma ny goods wer e sent t o the exhibi tion fr om vari ous par ts of the wor ld. There was al so a great deal of m achi ner y on display. The most wonderf ul pi ece of m achinery on show was Nasm yt h39。 Lesson77 A succesful operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The mum my of an Egypt ian wom an who died i n 800 . has just had an operat ion. The mummy is t hat of Shepenmut who was once a si nger i n the Tem pl e of Thebes. As there wer e str ange m ar ks on the X r ay pl ates taken of the m um my, doctor s have been t rying t o f ind out whether the woman di ed of a rare di sease. The only way to do this was t o operate. The oper ati on, whi ch last ed for over four hour s, pr oved t o be very di f icult because of the hard resi n whi ch covered t he ski n. The doctor s removed a sect ion of t he mummy and sent i t to a labor ator y. They also f ound somet hi ng which t he X ray of the god Duamut ef . This god whi ch has t he head of a cow was nor mal y placed inside a mum my. The doctor s have not yet decided how t he woman died. They feared t hat t he mummy woul d f al l to pi eces when t he y cut it open, but for tunately t his has not happened. The m um my successf ull y sur vived the operat ion. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Aft er reading an art icle ent it led 39。 we ar e taking you t o the m acar oni f ields of Calabri a. Macar oni has been gr own i n thi s ar ea for over si x hundr ed year s. Two of t he leading gr ower s, Gi useppe Mol dova and Ri car do Br abante, tel l me that they have been expect ing a splendid cr op thi s year and har vest ing has begun earl ier than usual . Her e you can see t wo wor ker s who, bet ween them, have j ust f ini shed cutt ing t hr ee car t loads of gol den br own macaroni st alks. The whol e vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hr eshi ng this year39。To end our speci al news bull et in,39。 SOS39。m Br inksley Mer s, and my ot her name i s Gl or ia Gleam. 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 other act or s, Rockwal Sl inger and Merl in Gr eeves, had car ied t wo l arge f ood basket s to a shady spot under some t rees. When they had al made themselves for table, a st ranger appear ed. He looked ver y angr y. 39。No newspaper men, no fi lm f ans! Why don39。t be bet er , Glor ia,39。 said Gl or ia Gl eam . 39。s fi shi ng, or eight hour s in a ci nem a seeing t he sam e fi lm over and over again, is usualy 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 hi tch hiked to Dover and, towards eveni ng, went int o a boat o f ind somewhere t o sleep. When he woke up next mor ning, he di scovered t hat t he boat had, in the meanti me, tr avel ed to Cal ais. No one not iced t he boy as he c r ept off . From there, he hit ch hiked to Par is i n a l or r y. The dri ver gave him a f ew biscuit s and a cup of coff ee and left hi m j ust outside t he city. The next car the boy stoppe d did not take him i nt o t he centr e of Pari s as he hoped it woul d, but to Per pignan on the Fr enchSpanish border. There he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back to England by t he local author it ies. He has surel y set up a r ecor d f or t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading school . Lesson74 Out of the l im el ight 舞臺之外 An anci ent bus stopped by a dry r iver bed and a par ty of f amous act or s and act resses got off . Dressed i n dark gl asses and ol d clothes, t hey had taken special pr ecaut ions so that no one should r ecognize t hem . But as they soon discovered, disgui ses can someti mes be too perf ect . 39。s foot st eps m any years l ater, Si r Malcolm 39。s Radical Progr essi ve Par t y. Af t er t he el ect i ons, Cr awl ey went t o t he f or m er Pr i m e Mi ni st er 39。m onst er s39。s steam hamm er . Though i n those days, tr avel li ng was not as easy as i t is t oday, st eam boat s car ri ed thousands of visit or s across the Channel f rom Europe. On ar iving in England, they were taken to t he Crystal Pa lace by tr ain. Ther e wer e si x mi l ion vi si tor s in al , and the prof it s fr om t he exhi bit ion wer e used t o buil d museu