【正文】 s 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 bi cycl es and at that ti me he used to wor k f our t en hours a day. He saved m oney f or year s and i n 1938 he bought a smal wor k shop of hi s own. Dur i ng the war Frank used to m ake spare par ts f or aeropl anes. At t hat im e he had two hel per s. By t he end of the war , t he sm al l work shop had be e a lar ge factor y which empl oyed seven hundred and t went yei ght peopl e. Fr ank sm iled when he remembered hi s har d ear ly year s and t he long r oad to success. He was st il l smi li ng when the door opened and his wi f e came in. She want ed him to repai r their son39。. This wonderf ul pl ane can car y seven passenger s. The m ost surpri sing t hi ng about i t, however , i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water , or even on a ploughed fi eld. Capt ain Fawcet 39。 i s a sm al l Swiss aer oplane cal led a 39。 signs outside his gate, but these have not had any ef ect. Now he has put an ugl y stone head over the gate. It i s one of the ugli est faces I have ever seen. I asked hi m what i t was and he t old me that it was Medusa, t he Gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wi l tur n mot or ist s to stone. But none of them has been tur ned to stone yet! Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new servi ce. The 39。 I l ooked at it agai n. She was r ight ! It was! Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜 Late in t he af ter noon, the boys put up their t ent in the mi ddle of a f ield. As soon as this was done, they cooked a meal over an open fi re. They were al l hungr y and the f ood smel t good. Aft er a wonder ful meal, t hey t old st or ies and sang songs by the camp f ir e. But some t ime later it began to r ain. The boys f elt ti red 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 m i ddl e of the ni ght , two boys woke up and began shouting. The tent was ful l of wat er! They al leapt out of their sl eping bags and hurr ied outside. It was r ai ning heavi ly and t hey found t hat a str eam had for med in the f ield. The str eam wound it s way across the f ield and t hen fl owed ri ght under t heir tent! Lesson28 No parki ng 禁止停車 Jasper Whi te i s one of those r are people who bel ieves i n anci ent myths. He has j ust bought a new house in the cit y, but ever since he moved in, he has had tr ouble wit h mot or ist s. when he r et urns home at night, he always f inds that someone has par ked a car outsi de hi s gate. Because of t his, he has not been able t o get hi s own car into his garage even once. Jasper has put up39。but i sn39。s al ri ght,39。 She l ooked at it cri ti cal ly f or a moment. 39。I t39。m hanging t his pict ure on t he wal ,39。 she asked. 39。 anyt hing. They ar e just pr et y pat ter ns. We li ke them i n t he same way that we li ke pret y curt ai n mat er ial . I t hink t hat young chi ldr en of ten appreciat e moder n pi ct ures bet ter t han anyone el se. They notice m ore. My sist er i s only seven, but she always t el ls m e whet her my pict ur es ar e good or not . She came into my r oom yest er day. 39。. Of course, m any pi ct ures arc not 39。t hey under stand modern ar t. They always tel l you what a pi ct ure i s 39。about 39。about39。 What are you doing ?39。 I 39。 I answered. 39。s a new one. Do you l ike i t ?39。 I t39。 she sai d, 39。t i t upside down ?39。 No Parki ng39。t axi 39。Pi l at us Por ter 39。s fi rst pasenger was a doctor who f lew f r om Bi rm ingham to a lonely vi l age i n t he Welsh m ountai ns. Since t hen, Capt ain Fawcet has fl own pasenger s to m any unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lat s and on anot her occasion, he landed in a deser ted car par k. Capt ain Fawcet has just r e fused a str ange r equest f rom a busi nesman. The man wanted to fl y to Rockal , a lonely i sland in the At lanti c Ocean, but Capt ai n Fawcet t did not take him because the t ri p was too danger ous. Leson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a smal l r iver that cut s across the park near my home. I li ke si t ing by t he Wayle on fi ne af ter noons. It was warm l ast Sunday, so I went and sat on t he ri ver bank as usual. Some chil dren wer e playing games on t he bank and t her e were some people r owing on t he ri ver. Suddenly, one of the chil dr en kicked a bal very hard and it went towards a passi ng boat . Som e peopl e on the bank caled out to the man i n t he boat, but he did not hear t hem . The bal str uck him so har d t hat he near ly fel i nt o t he water. I t ur ned to look at the childr en, but there weren39。s bi cycl e! Lesson32 Shopping made easy 購物變得很方便 Peopl e are not so honest as t hey once wer e. The t em ptati on to st eal is gr eat er than ever befor eespeci al ly in l ar ge shops. A detecti ve recent ly wat ched a wel dressed wom an who always went int o a lar ge st ore on Monday m or nings. One Monday, t her e were f ewer people in t he shop t han usual when the woman came i n, so i t was easier for t he det ect ive t o watch her. The wom an fi rst bought a few sm al l art icles. Af t er a l it tl e ti me, she chose one of t he most expensive dr eses in t he shop and handed i t to an assistant who wr apped it up f or her as quickly as possi ble. Then t he woman sim pl y t ook the parcel and wal ked out of the shop wi thout paying. When she was ar est ed, the detecti ve found out that the shop assistant was her daught er. The gir l39。 her m other a fr ee dress once a week ! lesson33 Out of t he darkness 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed befor e the gi rl was able t o expl ain what had happened to her. One af ter noon she set out fr om t he coast in a smal l boat and was caught in a st or m. Towards eveni ng, t he