【正文】 dr iver gave hi m a few bi scui ts and a cup of cof fee and l ef t him just out si de the cit y. The next car t he boy st opped di d not take him int o the centr e of Par is as he hoped it would, but to Perpi gnan on the FrenchSpani sh border. There he was pi cked up by a pol iceman and sent back t o England by t he local authori ti es. He has surely set up a r ecord for t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evading school . Lesson74 O ut of t he li meli ght 舞臺(tái)之外 An ancient bus st opped by a dr y r iver bed and a par ty of f am ous actor s and act reses got of f. Dr esed i n dar k glasses and old cl othes, t hey had t ake n speci al pr ecauti ons so t hat no one shoul d r ecognize them. But as they soon di scovered, di sgui ses can som et im es be t oo perf ect . 39。 sai d Gl ori a Gl eam. 39。t be bet ter , Gl or ia,39。No newspaper men, no fi lm fans! Why don39。 Meanwhi le, two ot her actor s, Rockwal Sli nger and Mer li n Gr eves, had car ied t wo lar ge food basket s to a shady spot under some t rees. When t hey had al l made themsel ves f ort abl e, a st ranger appear ed. He looked ver y angr y. 39。 he shouted: 39。m sher if f her e. Do you se t hat noti ce ? I t says No Campingi n case you can39。 39。said Rockwal l,39。t be too hard on us. I 39。 39。 said t he sheri f wi t h a sneer . 39。m Br inksley Mer s, and my ot her name i s Gl or ia Gleam. Now you get out of here fast ! 39。 SOS39。To end our special news bul leti n,39。 we are t aki ng you to the macaroni fi el ds of Cal abr ia. Macaroni has been grown in t his ar ea f or over six hundred years. Two of t he leadi ng grower s, Gi useppe Mol dova and Ricar do Brabant e, tel me that hey have been expecti ng a spl endi d crop t his year and harvesti ng has begun ear li er t han usual. Her e you can see two worker s who, between t hem, have just fi nished cut ti ng three cart l oads of golden brown macar oni st al ks. The whole vi l age has been worki ng day and ni ght gatheri ng and threshing t his year 39。 Lesson77 A succesful operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The mum my of an Egypt ian wom an who died i n 800 . has just had an operat ion. The mummy is t hat of Shepenmut who was once a si nger i n the Tem pl e of Thebes. As there wer e str ange m ar ks on the X r ay pl ates taken of the mum my, doctor s have been tr ying t o f ind out whether the woman di ed of a rare di sease. The only way to do this was t o operate. The oper ati on, whi ch l ast ed for over four hour s, pr oved t o be very di f icult because of the hard r esi n whi ch covered t he ski n. The doctor s removed a sect ion of t he mummy and sent i t to a labor ator y. They also f ound somethi ng whi ch t he X ray of t he god Duamut ef. This god whi ch has t he head of a cow was nor mal y placed inside a m um my. The doct or s have not yet decided how t he woman died. They feared t hat t he mummy woul d f al l to pi eces when t hey cut it open, but for tunately this has not happened. The mumm y successful ly survi ved t he oper ati on. Leson78 The last one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter r eadi ng an ar ti cle enti tl ed 39。 I li t a ci gar et e to calm my ner ves. I sm oked wi t h concent rat ion and pleasur e as I was sur e that thi s would be m y last ci gar et e. For a whole wek I di d not smoke at al and dur ing this t im e, my wif e suff er ed ter ri bly. I had al l the usual sym ptoms of someone gi ving up smoking: a bad temper and an enor mous appeti te. My f r iends kept on off eri ng me cigaret tes and ci gar s. They m ade no ef for t to hi de their amusem ent whenever I produced a packet of sweets f rom my pocket . Aft er seven days of thi s I went t o a part y. Ever ybody ar ound m e was sm oki ng and I felt extr emely unf or table. When m y ol d f r i end Br ian urged m e to accept a cigar et te, it was mor e than I could bear. I t ook one guil ti ly, li t it and smoked wi t h sat isfacti on. My wi fe was deli ghted that thi ngs had r eturned t o normal once more. Anyway, as Br ian point ed out , it is t he easi est thi ng in t he worl d t o give up smoking. He him sel f has done it l ot s of ti mes! Lesson79 By ai r 乘飛機(jī) I used t o tr avel by air a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ent s, used to l ive i n South Am eri ca and I used to f l y there fr om Eur ope i n t he hol idays. An ai rhostes woul d t ake charge of me and I never had an unpleasant experi ence. I am used to t ravel ing by air and only on one occasi on have I ever f elt f ri ght ened. Af ter taking of f, we wer e f lying l ow over the cit y and slowl y gai ning height, when t he plane suddenl y t ur ned round and f lew back to the air por t . Whil e we wer e wait ing t o land, an ai r host ess t ol d us t o keep calm and to get off t he plane quietl y as soon as i t had t ouched down. Ever ybody on board was wor r ied and we wer e cur i ous t o f ind out what had happened. Lat er we learnt that t her e was a ver y i mport ant person on board. The pol ice had been told that a bom b had been pl ant ed on the plane. Aft er we had landed, the pl ane was searched thoroughly. Fort unatel y, nothi ng was found and f ive hours l at er we were abl e to t ake of f agai n. Lesson80 The Crystal Palace 水晶宮 Per haps the most ext raordi nar y buil di ng of the ni enth centur y was the Cr ystal Pal ace, which was buil t in Hyde Par k f or t he Gr eat Exhibit ion of 1851. The Cr ysta l Pal ace was di f erent fr om al ot her buil dings in t he worl d, for it was m ade of i ron and glass. I t was one of t he biggest buil di ngs of al l t im e and a lot of peopl e fr om m any countr ies came to see i t. A gr eat many goods were sent to t he exhi bi ti on fr om var ious par ts of t he worl d. Ther e was also a great deal of machi ner y on di spl ay. The most wonder ful piece of machi ner y on show was Nasmyth39。s clothes. Now, dr esed in a blue unif or m and wit h a r if le over his shoul der , the pri sone