【正文】 ituro. Tazief was able to set up hi s camp ver y cl ose to the vol cano whi le it was erupting violent ly. Though he managed to t ake a number of br il iant photographs, he could not stay near t he volcano for very l ong. He noticed that a ri ver of l iqui d rock was ing towards hi m. I t threat ened t o surr ound him pl et el y, but Tazief managed t o escape just in t ime. He waited unt il the volcano became quiet and he was abl e t o return t wo days l at er . This t ime, he managed to cli mb into t he mouth of Ki turo so that he could take phot ogr aphs and measure t em per at ur es. Tazief has often ri sked hi s l if e in this way. He has been abl e t o tel us mor e about acti ve volcanoes than any man ali ve. Leson68 Persi stent 糾纏不休 I crossed the st reet to avoi d meti ng him, but he saw me and came r unning towar ds me. It was no use pretending that I had not seen him, so I waved to him. I never enjoy meti ng Bert Dykes. He never has anythi ng t o do. No mat ter how busy you are, he always insist s on ing with you. I had to t hi nk of a way of preventing him f rom f ol lowing me ar ound al l mor ni ng. 39。so it was f or tunate t hat we di dn39。Jum bo m ust weigh a few t ons, 39。guard of honour39。 I l it a ci garet e to cal m my ner ves. I smoked wi th conc entr at ion and pleasur e as I was ure that hi s would be my last cigar et te. For a whole week I did not smoke at al and dur ing this ti me, my wi fe suf fered teri bl y. I had al the usual symptoms of someone giving up smoking: a bad t emperEngl i shman, Wi li am Low. He suggest ed t hat a doubl e railway tunnel should be bui lt. This woul d solve the pr oblem of venti lation, f or i f a t rain ent er ed t hi s tunnel , it would draw i n fr esh ai r behi nd i t. For tytwo year s later a t unnel was act ual y begun. If , at the time, the Br it ish had not fear ed i nvasi on, it would have been pleted. Recently, ther e has again been great interest i n the idea of a Channel Tunnel. If it is built , i t wi l connect Br itain t o Eur ope for the fi rst t ime in history. Leson65 Jumbo versus t he police 小象對(duì)警察 Last Chr istmas, the circus owner , Jimmy Gates, decided to take some pr esent s t o a chil dr en39。 Lesson77 A succesful operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egyptian woman who died i n 800 . has just had an oper at ion. The mummy is t hat of Shepenmut who was once a singer in t he Templ e of Thebes. As t here 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 wom an died of a r ar e di sease. The only way to do this was to operate. The operati on, whi ch l asted for over f our hours, pr oved t o be very dif ficult because of the hard r esin which cover ed the skin. The doctors removed a section of the mummy and sent it to a l aboratory. They al so f ound somet hi ng which the Xray of the god Duamutef . This god which has the head of a cow was nor mal ly placed inside a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how t he woman died. They f ear ed t hat he mummy would fal to pieces when t he y cut it open, but f or tunately t hi s has not happened. The mummy succesfull y survived the oper ation. Lesson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter reading an ar ticle ent it led 39。 we are t aking you t o the macar oni fi el ds of Cal abri a. Macaroni has been grown in t hi s ar ea f or over si x hundr ed year s. Two of the leadi ng growers, Gi useppe Moldova and Ricardo Brabant e, tel me that hey have been expecti ng a spl endid crop this yea r and har vest ing has begun earl ier t han usual . Here you can see two workers who, between them, have j ust f inished cutt ing three cart l oads of gol den br own macar oni st al ks. The whol e vi lage has been wor ki ng day and ni ght gatheri ng and t hr eshing this year39。To end our special news bulleti n, 39。 SOS39。m Bri nksley Mers, and my other name i s Gl or ia Gl eam. Now you get out of her e fast ! 39。 sai d the sher if f wi th a sneer . 39。 39。t be t oo hard on us. I39。sai d Rockwal ,39。 39。m sheri f her e. Do you se t hat noti ce ? I t says No Camping i n case you can39。 he shout ed: 39。 Meanwhile, two other act or s, Rockwal l Sli nger and Merli n Greeves, had car ried two l ar ge f ood basket s t o a shady spot under some t rees. When they had al l m ade themsel ves f or tabl e, a stranger appeared. He looked ver y angry. 39。No newspaper men, no f ilm fans! Why don39。t be bet ter, Glori a,39。 said Gl or ia 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, i n the meant ime, t ravel led t o Cal ai s. No one not iced t he boy as he cr ept of f. From there, he hitchhiked t o Par is in a lor ry. The dr iver gave him a f ew bi scuits and a cup of cof fee and left him just out side the city. The next car the boy st opped did not take him i nto the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Per pi gnan on t he Fr ench Spani sh bor der . Ther e he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by the local aut hori ti es. He has sur ely set up a r ecord for the thousands of boys who dr eam of evadi ng school . Lesson74 Out of the lim el ight 舞臺(tái)之外 An ancient bus stopped by a dr y river bed and a par ty of f amous actors and actresses got of f. Dresed i n dar k gl asses and old clothes, t hey had t aken special pr ecauti ons so that no one shoul d recogni ze t hem. But as t hey soon di scovered, disguis es can somet imes be t oo per fect. 39。s foot st eps many years l at er , Sir Malcolm39。 you have j ust kil led that chi ld ! 39。Mr Eames, 39。Just one more thing, Mr Eames. Let us suppose that a chi ld sudde