【正文】 pr ecauti ons so t hat no one shoul d r ecogni ze them. But as they soon di scovered, di sgui ses can som et im es be t oo per f ect. 39。s f ootsteps many year s lat er , Sir Mal col m39。 you have just ki l ed that chi ld ! 39。Mr Eames, 39。Just one mor e thi ng, Mr Eam es. Let us suppose t hat a chil d suddenly cr osses the r oad in f ront of you. As soon as I tap on t he window, I want t he car t o be stopped imm edi at ely.39。wait ing r oom ! 39。 Ther e39。l e wi th you, 39。m goi ng to t he dent ist. 39。 I li ed, 39。Would you m ind my ing wi th you ?39。m going t o.. .39。 I answer ed.39。 39。 I was j ust wonderi ng how t o spend t he morningunti l I saw you. You39。Hul lo, Eli zabeth, 39。Fancy meet ing you her e !39。Hul l o, Ber t, 39。t have to car y hi m. Of cour se, we should ar rest hi m, but as he has a good record, we shal l let him off t hi s ti me.39。 said a pol iceman aft er wards, 39。 of six pr et ty gi rl s, he set of f down t he main str eet of t he ci ty r idi ng a baby el ephant cal led Jumbo. He, shoul d have known that he poli ce woul d never al ow t his sort of thi ng. A pol iceman appr oached Jim my and tol d him he ought t o have gone along a side st reet as Jumbo was holdi ng up the t raf fi c. Though Ji mmy agr eed to go at once, Jum bo ref used t o move. Fi ft een pol icemen had to push very hard to get him off t he main st reet. The poli ce had a di f icult t ime, but they were most amused. 39。s hospit al . Dressed up as Father Chri stmas and apanied by a 39。s cl osest f r iends asked him to m ake a speech at a wedding r ecept ion. Thi s is t he sor t of thing t hat Geof fr ey loves. He pr epar ed the speech careful ly and went to the wedding wi th Jenny. He had included a lar ge number of funny stor ies in the speech and, of course, i t was a grea t success. As soon as he had f i ni shed, Jenny t old hi m she wanted t o go home. Geof fr ey was a l it tle di sappoint ed by this but he did as hi s daughter asked. On the way hom e, he asked Jenny if she had enj oyed t he speech. To hi s sur pri se, she said she hadn39。 As she wal ked away, I fol lowed her out of the f air . Lesson61 Trouble wi t h the Hubble 哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡的困境 I n f utur e, ast ronauts wi l be r equi red t o descend fr om a spaceship whi le it is st il i n space and to retur n t o it . The abi li ty t o do thi s wi l be necessary in f utur e fl ights to di st ant plas. Sci ent ists ar e now t r ying t o discover if t his i s possible. The spaceshi p Astr a which l eft the ear th a short t ime ago, wil l be tr avel ling three hundred mi les i nt o space. At a cer tai n point, t he Ast r a wil l st op for a short t ime and an astr onaut wi l at em pt t o leave the stat ionary spaceship and t hen r eturn to i t. We shal l not know whether the experi ment has been successful unt il we have r eceived a r adio m essage. The fi rst mesage is expect ed to ar ri ve at 7 o39。 she asked im pat ientl y. 39。 As soon as I went out side, I f ot al about Madam Bel li nsky because my wif e hurr ied t owar ds me. 39。si nce. Leson60 The fut ure 卜算未來 At a vi l age fair , I decided t o visit a f ort une tel er cal led Madam Bel li nsky. I went i nto her tent and she t old m e to si t down. Af ter I had given her some m oney, she l ooked i nto a cr yst al bal and sai d: 39。A r elati on of your s is i ng to see you. She wi l be ar ri vi ng thi s evening and i ntends to stay f or a few days. The moment you leave t his t ent , you wil l get a big sur pri se. A wom an you know wel wi l r ush t owards you. She wi l speak to you and then she wi l lead you away fr om this pl ace. That i s al l. 39。Wher e have you been hidi ng ?39。Your si st er wi l l be her e in l es t han an hour and we must be at the stati on to meet her. We are l ate alr eady. 39。cl ock thi s evening. By t hat ti me, the Ast ra wi l have been f lyi ng thr ough space f or seventeen hour s and wil l have ci rcled t he ear th a gr eat m any tim es. When t he fi rst radio mesages have been recei ved, the r esul ts of t he tr ip wi l be announced im medi ately. Leson62 Af ter t he fi re 大火之后 Fi remen had been f i ght ing t he for est fi re for near ly three weeks bef ore they coul d get i t under cont rol . A shor t ti me befor e, gr eat t rees had covered t he countr ysi de for mi les around. Now, sm oke st il r ose up fr om t he warm ground over t he desolat e hil ls. Wi nt er was i ng on and the hi l s threatened the surr oundi ng vil lages wi t h dest ructi on, f or heavy rai n would not only wash away t he soil but would cause seri ous fl oods as wel . When t he fi re had at last been put out , t he for est authori ti es or dered sever al t ons of a speci al t ype of gr as seed which woul d grow qui ckl y. The seed was spr ayed over the gr ound in huge quant it ies by aer oplanes. The planes had been planti ng seed f or ne arl y a m ont h when it began to r ain. By t hen, however , i n many pl aces the gr ass had alr eady t aken r oot. In place of t he great tr es whi ch had been growi ng ther e for cent uri es, patches of gr en had begun to appear i n the bl ackened soil . Lesson63 She was not amused 她并不覺得好笑 Geof f rey Hampden has a lar ge ci rcle of f r iends and i s ver y popular at part ies. Ever ybody admi res him f or hi s fi ne sense of hum or ever ybody, that is, except hi s sixyear old daught er, Jenny. Recentl y, one of Geoff r ey39。t . Geoff rey asked her why t his was so and she told him that she di d not l ike t o se so m any people l aughi ng at hi m! Leson64 The Channel Tunnel 海峽隧道 I n l 858, a Fr ench engineer , Aime Thome de Gamond, ar ri ved in England wi th a plan f or a twenty one mil e tunnel acr oss t he Engl ish Channel . He sai d that it would be possible to buil d a pl at for m i n t he centr e of the Channel . This plat for m woul d ser ve as a por t and a rai lway stat ion. The tunnel would be wel ventil ated i f tal ch