【正文】 ths. He has j ust bought a new house i n the ci ty, but ever since he moved in, he has had t roubl e wi th motori st s. when he returns home at night, he always f inds t hat someone has par ked a car outside his gate. Because of this, he has not been abl e to get his own car i nt o hi s garage even once. Jasper has put up39。but i sn39。s al ri ght, 39。 She looked at it crit ical ly f or a moment. 39。I t39。m hanging this picture on the wal l,39。 she asked. 39。 anyt hi ng. They are just pret y pat er ns. We like them in t he same way that we l ike pr et ty cur tain material. I think that young chi ldren of ten appreci at e moder n pictures beter than anyone el se. They noti ce more. My si ster is onl y seven, but she al ways tels me whet her my pi ct ur es are good or not. She came into my r oom yesterday. 39。. Of course, many pictures ar c not 39。t under st and them ! Do they speak Engli sh ? leson26 The best art cri tics 最佳美術(shù)評論家 I am an art student and I paint a l ot of pictures. Many peopl e pr et end that t hey under st and modern art . They always t el l you what a pi ct ur e is 39。l soon lear n Engli sh!39。 I said. Then he spoke sl owl y, but I could not understand him. My t eacher never spoke Engl ish like that! The porter and I looked at each ot her and smiled. Then he said somet hi ng and I understood it. 39。 I r epeat ed my questi on several t imes and at last he under st ood. He answered me, but he spoke nei ther slowly nor clear ly. 39。t her e is st il l some honest y in t hi s wor ld !39。Wel ,39。s room39。5o. 39。s l osing money these days, 39。 The manager was sympathet ic, but he could do not hi ng. 39。and it39。 I l ef t he money i n my room,39。s of fice and sat down. I had just lost amp。clock in the morning. Erna is only fourt en years old and she hopes lo set up a new world r ecord. She is a strong swi mmer and many peopl e f el that she i s ure to succed. Er na39。 her mother a f ree dr ess once a week ! lesson33 Out of t he darkness 沖出黑暗 Nearl y a wek passed before t he gir l was abl e t o explain what had happened to her . One afternoon she set out f rom t he coast i n a smal boat and was caught in a storm. Towar ds evening, the boat st ruck a r ock and the gir l j umped into the sea. Then she swam to t he shor e af ter spendi ng t he whole night in t he water. During t hat ime she covered a di st ance of eight mil es. Earl y next morni ng, she saw a li ght ahead. She knew she was near t he shore because the li ght was high up on t he clif fs. On ar riving at he shor e, the gi rl struggl ed up the clif f towar ds the li ght she had sen. That was al she r emember ed. When she woke up a day l at er , she f ound her self i n hospi tal. Leson34 Quick work 破案“神速” Ted Robi nson has been wor ied al l t he wek. Last Tuesday he r ecei ved a let er fr om t he l ocal poli ce. I n the let er he was asked t o cal at t he st at ion. Ted wonder ed why he was wanted by t he poli ce, but he went to t he stati on yesterday and now he is not worr ied any more. At t he st at ion, he was t ol d by a sm il ng poli cem an t hat hi s bi cycl e had been f ound. Fi ve days ago, the poli ceman told him, the bi cycle was pi cked up i n a sm al l vil lage f our hundred m il es away. I t i s now being sent t o hi s hom e by t rain. Ted was m ost sur prised when he hear d the news. He was am used t oo, because he never expect ed t he bicycl e t o be f ound. It was st ol en t wenty year s ago when Ted was a boy of f ift een ! Lesson35 Stop t hief! 捉賊！ Rov Tr enton used t o dri ve ataxi . A short whi le ago, however, he became a bus dri ver and he was not r egret ed it . He i s fi nding hi s new wor k f ar mor e xcit ing. When he was dr ivi ng al ong Catf or d St reet r ecentl y, he saw t wo t hi eves rush out of a shop and run t owar ds a wait ing car. One of them was car yi ng a bag f ull of money. Roy act ed qui ckly and dr ove the bus str ai ght at the thie ves. The one wit h the money got such a f ri ght that he dr opped t he bag. As the thieves wer e trying t o get away in their car, Roy dr ove his bus into t he back of it. Whil e the bat er ed car was moving away, Roy stopped hi s bus and telephoned t he pol ice. The t hi eves39。s bi cycl e! Leson32 Shopping made easy 購物變得很方便 People are not so honest as they once were. The temptation to steal i s gr eater t han ever befor eespecial y in large shops. A det ecti ve r ecentl y wat ched a wel dresed woman who always went i nt o a large st or e on Monday mornings. One Monday, ther e wer e f ewer peopl e in the shop than usual when the wom an came i n, so i t was easier f or t he detecti ve t o wat ch her. The woman f ir st bought afew smal l art icles. Aft er a li tl e time, she chose one of the most expensive dr esses in t he shop and handed i t o an assi tant who wrapped it up for her as qui ckly as possibl e. Then the woman simply took the parcel and wal ked out of t he shop wit hout payi ng. When she was ar rest ed, the detect ive found out t hat the shop assi stant was her daughter . The gi rl39。s fi rst pasenger was a doct or who fl ew f rom Bi rmingham t o a lonely vil lage i n the Welsh mount ai ns. Si nce then, Captain Fawcet has f lown pasenger s to many unusual pl aces. Once he landed on the roof of a block of fl ats and on anot her occasion, he landed i n a deser ted car park. Captain Fawcet t has just refused a strange r equest f rom a busi nes man. The man wanted to f ly t o Rockal , a l onely island i n the Atl anti c Ocean, but Captain Fawcet di d not take him because t he t rip was too dangerous. Lesson30 Football or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a smal ri ver that cut s across t he park near my home. I li ke sit ting by the Wayl e on f ine af ternoons. It was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on the river bank as usual . Some chil dr en were playing games on the bank and t here were some people r owi ng on the ri ver. Suddenly, one of t he childr