【正文】 ans! Why don39。t be beter , Gl or ia,39。 said Glori a Gleam. 39。s f ishing, or ei ght hours i n a cinema seei ng t he same f il m over and over again, i s usual y as f ar as t hey get . They have al been put to shame by a boy who, whi le playi ng t ruant , t ravel ed 1600 mi les. He hi tch hiked t o Dover and, towards evening, went i nt o a boat o fi nd somewher e to sl ep. When he woke up next morning, he di scovered that he boat had, i n the meantime, travel led to Calai s. No one noticed the boy as he cr ept off. From t here, he hit chhiked to Par is in a l or ry. The driver gave him a few biscuit s and a cup of coffee and l ef t him just out si de t he cit y. The next car the boy stopped di d not take him into the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Perpignan on the Fr ench Spani sh border . Ther e he was picked up by a pol iceman and sent back to England by t he l ocal aut hor it es. He has surely set up a record f or t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading school. Leson74 Out of t he l imelight 舞臺之外 An anci ent bus st opped by a dry r iver bed and a party of famous act or s and act reses got off . Dr essed in dark glases and old clothes, they had taken speci al precautions so that no one should r ecognize them. But as they soon discover ed, di sguises can someti mes be too perf ect. 39。s f ootsteps many years later, Sir Malcol m39。 you have j ust ki led that child ! 39。Mr Eames, 39。Just one more t hi ng, Mr Eames. Let us suppose t hat a child suddenl y cr osses the road i n fr ont of you. As soon as I tap on t he wi ndow, I want the car to be st opped i mmediately.39。wait ing room !39。 There39。l l e with you, 39。m goi ng t o the dentist. 39。 I li ed, 39。 Would you mind my i ng wi th you ?39。 I39。 No, not at al l, 39。r e not busy doing anything, are you ?39。 Ber t answered. 39。 39。 I said. 39。 I li t a cigar ete t o calm my nerves. I smoked wit h concent rati on and pl easure as I was sur e t hat this woul d be my l ast cigarete. For a whol e week I did not smoke at al l and duri ng t hi s time, my wife suffered ter ibly. I had al l t he usual sympt oms of someone gi ving up smoking: a bad temper and an enormous appeti e. My f ri ends kept on of feri ng me cigar et tes and ci gar s. They made no ef fort to hide their amusement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweets fr om my pocket. Aft er seven days of this I went to a par ty. Everybody ar ound me was smoking and I felt ext remel y unf ortable. When my ol d fr iend Br ian ur ged me to accept a cigar et te, i t was mor e than I coul d bear . I t ook one guilt ily, li t i t and smoked wit h sati sf action. My wife was deli ghted that hi ngs had r et ur ned to normal once mor e. Anyway, as Br ian pointed out , i t i s the easi est thing in the world t o gi ve up smoking. He himsel f has done it lots of t imes! Leson79 By air 乘飛機 I used to t ravel by air a great deal when I was a boy. My par ents, used t o live in Sout h Amer ica and I used t o fl y ther e fr om Eur ope in t he hol idays. An air hostess woul d take charge of me and I never had an unpleasant exper ience. I am used to tr aveli ng by air and onl y on one occasion have I ever felt fr ightened. Af ter t aking off , we were fl yi ng low over the cit y and slowly gai ni ng height , when the pl ane suddenly turned round and f lew back to t he air port . Whi le we were wai ti ng t o land, an air hostes t ol d us to keep calm and to get off the pl ane qui et ly as oon as it had touched down. Ever ybody on board was wor ri ed and we were curious to fi nd out what had happened. Later we lear nt that here was a very i mport ant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t ol d that a bomb had been planted on t he plane. Aft er we had landed, t he plane was searched thoroughly. Fort unately, nothing was f ound and fi ve hour s l at er we were abl e to take of f agai n. Lesson80 The Cryst al Pal ace 水晶宮 Perhaps t he most ext raor dinar y buil di ng of the ni ent h century was t he Cr ystal Palace, whi ch was buil t in Hyde Par k for the Great Exhi bi tion of 1851. The Cr ysta l Palace was di f er ent from al other buildings in the wor ld, for it was made of iron and glass. It was one of the biggest buildings of al time and a l ot of peopl e from many count ri es came t o see it. A great many goods were sent t o t he exhi bi tion f rom have shown interest in t hi s new and unusual sport . But t hough air cycli st s may l earn how to f ly over short di st ances, and may, eventualy, even get across t he Engl ish Channel, it is doubtful whether t hey wil l ever cycle acr oss the Atl anti c. Lesson67 Volcanoes 火山 Har oun Tazief the Pol ish scientist, has spent his li fet ime st udying acti ve volcanoes and deep caves i n al l part s of the wor ld. In 1948, he went to l ake Kivu in t he Congo to observe anew volcano which he later named Kituro. 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 temper at ur es. Tazief has often ri sked hi s l if e in this way. He has been abl e to tel us mor e about acti ve volcanoes than any man al ive. Leson68 Persi st ent 糾纏不休 I cr ossed the st reet to avoi d meti ng him, but he saw me and came running towards me. It was no use pretendi ng t hat I had not seen him, so I waved t o hi m. I never enjoy meti ng Bert Dykes. He never has anyt hi ng t o do. No mat ter how busy you are, he always i nsists on ing wit h you. I had t o think of a way of pr