【正文】 oad thi s year ?39。 No, 39。Wil you be seei ng it ?39。 A new play i s ing t o The Globe soon,39。 I am Mr John Gi lbert .39。 No,39。. Wor ker s wi l ha ve pl eted the new roads by the end of thi s year. By the end of next year , they wi l have fi ni shed wor k on t he new stadium. The f ine modern bui ldings have been designed by Kurt Gunt er . Ever ybody wi l l be wat chi ng anxi ousl y as the new buil dings go up. We are al l ver y exci ted and are looking f or war d to t he Ol ym pi c Games because they have never been hel d bef ore i n t hi s count ry. Leson38 Everyt hi ng except t he weat her 惟獨沒有考慮到天氣 My ol d f ri end, Har ison, had l ived in the Medi ter anean f or many year s bef ore he r etur ned t o England. He had of ten dr eam ed of r eti ri ng in Engl and and had planned to set le down i n t he countr y. He had no sooner retur ned than he bought a f ine house and went to li ve there. Alm ost i mmediatel y he began t o plain about the weather, f or even t hough i t was st il l summer , it rai ned conti nual ly and i t was of ten bi t er ly col d. Af t er so many years of sunshine, Har ison got a shock. He act ed as i f he had never li ved in England befor e. I n t he end, it was mor e than he could bear. He had hardl y ha d ti me t o set tl e down when he sol d t he house and left t he count ry. The dream he had had f or so m any years ended there. Har ison ha d thought of everythi ng except t he weather. Leson39 Am I all right ? 我是否痊愈？ Whi le John Gil ber t was in hospit al , he asked his doctor to tel hi m whether his oper at i on had been succesf ul , but t he doct or r efused to do so. The fol lowi ng day, the pati ent asked for a bedsi de tel ephone. When he was al one, he tel ephoned the hospi tal exchange and asked for Doctor Mil ington. When t he doct or answered t he phone, Mr Gi lbert said he was i nqui ri ng about a cert ai n patient , a Mr John Gil ber t. He asked if Mr Gil ber t39。They wi l also be buil ding new r oads and a speci al r ail way li ne. The Games wi l be held just out si de the capi tal and the whol e ar ea wi l be cal led 39。s mot her , who swam t he Channel her sel f when she was a gi rl . Lesson37 The Olym pi c Gam es 奧林匹克運動會 The Ol ym pic Games wi l be held in our count ry i n f our years39。s f ather wil l set out wi t h her i n a smal boat. Mr Har t has t rai ned hi s daughter f or years. Tomorr ow he wi l be wa t chi ng her anxiously as she swi ms t he long dist ance t o Engl and. Er na i nt ends t o take shor t rests every t wo hours. She wil l have somethi ng to dr ink but she wil l not eat any soli d f ood. Most of Erna39。 car was badl y dam aged and easy t o r ecognize. Shor tl y aft er wards, the poli ce st opped t he car and both m en were ar rest ed. Lesson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Erna Har t is going t o swi m across the Engli sh Channel tomor row. She is goi ng to set out f rom the Fr ench coast at fi ve o39。 gave39。t any in si ght : they had al l run away! The man l aughed when he reali zed what had happened. He cal led out to t he chi ldr en and t hrew the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Succes story 成功者的故事 Yesterday af ternoon Fr ank Hawki ns was tel ing m e about his exper iences as a young man. Frank i s now the head of a ver y l ar ge busi ness pany, but as a boy he used to work i n a smal shop. I t was his j ob to r epai r bicycl es and at that ti me he used to wor k f our t een hour s a day. He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a sm al l work shop of his own. Dur ing t he war Fr ank used t o make spar e part s for aer oplanes. At tha t ti me he had t wo helpers. By t he end of t he war, the smal l wor kshop had bee a l arge f act ory whi ch employed seven hundr ed and twenty eight people. Frank smi led when he r em em ber ed his hard ear ly years and the l ong road t o succes. He was sti l smil ing when t he door opened and hi s wif e came i n. She wanted hi m t o r epair t hei r son39。. This wonderf ul pl ane can car y seven pasenger s. The m ost sur pri sing t hi ng about it , however , i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water , or even on a ploughed fi el d. Capt ai n Fawcet39。 is a sm al l Swiss aer oplane cal led a 39。 si gns outsi de hi s gat e, but t hese have not had any ef f ect. Now he has put an ugly st one head over t he gat e. I t is one of the ugl iest f aces I have ever sen. I asked him what it was and he t ol d me t hat i t was Medusa, the Gor gon. Jasper hopes that she wi l l t urn motor ists t o stone. But none of them has been t urned t o st one yet ! Lesson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車！ Captain Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new ser vice. The 39。t i r ed so t hey pet out the f ir e and cr ept i nto t hei r tent. Their sleepingbags were war m and f ort abl e, so t hey al l sl ept soundl y. I n t he middle of t he night, t wo boys woke up and began shout ing. The t ent was f ull of water ! They al l leapt out of their sleepi ngbags and hur ri ed out si de. I t was raini ng heavil y and they f ound that a st ream had f orm ed in t he fi el d. The st ream wound i ts way acr oss t he fi el d and then f lowed r ight under thei r tent! Leson28 No parking 禁止停車 Jasper Whit e is one of those r ar e peopl e who beli eves in ancient myt hs. He has just bought a new house i n t he ci ty, but ever si nce he moved i n, he has had tr ouble wi th motor ists. when he retur ns home at ni ght , he al ways fi nds t hat someone has parked a car outside his gate. Because of thi s, he has not been abl e to get his own car i nto hi s gar age even once. Jasper has put up39。 No Par king39。t axi39。Pi l at us Por ter 39。s fi rst passenger was a doct or who f lew f rom Bi rmi ngham to a lonely vi l age i n the Welsh mountai ns. Since then, Capt ain Fawcet has fl own pasenger s to many unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lat s and on another occasion, he landed i