【正文】 al agr ement is r eached about pay and worki ng condit ions. Most people beli eve t hat t he st ri ke wi l last for at least a week. Many owner s of pri vat e car s are goi ng to of fer 39。 answered Cr awley,39。 39。 he shout ed, 39。s house. When he asked if Mr Lane li ved t her e, the poli ceman on dut y tol d him that si nce hi s def eat, the exPr im e Mi nister had gone abroad. On t he foll owing day, Crawl ey went t o t he house agai n. The same poli cem an was just wal king slowl y past t he ent rance, when Cr awley asked t he sam e questi on. Though a li t le suspi cious this time, t he pol iceman gave him the same answer . The day af ter, Cr awley went to the house once mor e and asked exactl y t he same quest ion. This t ime, t he pol iceman lost his t emper .39。 which have at t im es been si ghted ar e sim pl y st range fi sh. Occasi onal y, unusual cr eat ur es ar e washed t o t he shor e, but t hey are r arel y caught out at sea. Som e tim e ago, however, a pecul iar fi sh was caught near Madagascar . A sm al f i shi ng boat was car ri ed mi les out t o sea by t he powerf ul fi sh as i t pul l ed on t he li ne. Reali zi ng t hat t hi s was no or di nar y fi sh, t he fi sherm an made ever y ef ort not to damage it i n any way. When it was event ual l y br ought t o shor e, i t was f ound t o be over t hi rt een feet l ong. I t had a head l ike a hor se, big bl ue eyes, shi ni ng si l ver ski n, and a br i ght r ed t ai l, The f i sh, whi ch has si nce been sent to a museum where i t is being examined by a scienti st , is cal ed an oar fi sh. Such creatur es have rar el y been seen ali ve by man as they l ive at a dept h of six hundred f et . Lesson83 Af t er t he electi ons 大選之后 The f ormer Pr ime Mini st er, Mr Wentwor th Lane, was def eat ed in t he recent electi ons. He i s now r et ir ing f r om poli ti cal li fe and has gone abr oad. My fr iend, Crawl ey, has always been a fanat ical opponent of Mr Lane39。s cl ot hes. Now, dressed i n a bl ue uni for m and wi th a ri fl e over hi s shoulder, t he pr isoner m arched bol dly up and down i n f ront of t he cam p. He coul d hear shout ing i n the camp i tself . Lights wer e blazing and men wer e r unni ng her e and there: they had j ust discover ed that a pr isoner had escaped. At t hat m oment , a lar ge bl ack car wi th f our of f icers i nsi de it, stopped at the cam p gates. The of fi cer s got out and the pr isoner stood t o at tenti on and sal uted as they pased. When they had gone, the dr iver of the car came t owards him . The m an obvi ousl y want ed t o t alk. He was r at her el der l y wit h grey hair and cl ear blue eyes. The pri soner felt sorr y f or hi m, but t here was not hi ng el se he coul d do. As the m an came near, t he pr isoner knocke d hi m t o t he gr ound wit h a sharp bl ow. Then, j um pi ng int o t he car, he dr ove of f as qui ckl y as he coul d. Leson82 Monst er or f ish? 是妖還是魚？ Fisherm en and sail or s som et im es cl ai m to have seen m onst er s i n t he sea. Though people have oft en laughed at stori es t ol d by s eam en, it i s now known t hat many of these 39。 I li t a ci gar et e to calm my ner ves. I smoked wi t h concentr at ion and pleasur e as I was sur e t hat thi s would be m y last ci gar et e. For a whole week I di d not sm oke at al and duri ng this t im e, my wif e suff ered t er ri bly. I had al l the usual symptoms of someone gi ving up smoking: a bad temper and an enor mous appeti te. My fr iends kept on off eri ng me cigaret tes and cigars. They made no ef for t to hi de their amusement whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweets f rom my pocket . Aft er seven days of t hi s I went to a par ty. Ever ybody ar ound m e was smoking and I fel t ext remely unf or tabl e. When m y old fr iend Br ian urged m e to accept a ci gar et te, it was m or e t han I could bear. I t ook one guil ti ly, li t it and smoked wit h sat isfacti on. My wi fe was deli ghted t hat thi ngs had r eturned t o normal once more. Anyway, as Br ian point ed out , it is the easi est thi ng in t he worl d t o give up smoking. He him sel f has done it l ots of ti mes! Lesson79 By ai r 乘飛機 I used t o tr avel by air a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ent s, used to live i n South Am eri ca and I used to fl 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 felt f ri ght ened. Af ter taking of f, we wer e f lyi ng low over the ci ty and slowl y gaining height , when t he plane suddenly t urned r ound and f lew back to the air port . Whil e we wer e wait ing t o l and, an air host es t old us t o keep calm and to get of f t he plane quietl y as soon as i t had t ouched down. Everybody on boar d was wor ri ed and we wer e cur ious to fi nd out what had happened. Later we l ear nt that here wa s a ver y im por tant per son on boar d. The poli ce had been t ol d t hat a bomb had been planted on t he pl ane. Af ter we had l anded, t he plane was sear ched t hor oughl y. For tunately, nothing was f ound and f ive hour s later we wer e able t o take off again. Leson80 The Cryst al Pal ace 水晶宮 Per haps the m ost extr aor dinary bui lding of t he nieent h cent ury was the Cr yst al Palace, whi ch was built i n Hyde Park for the Gr eat Exhi bi ti on of 1851. The Cr yst al Palace was dif fer ent f rom al l other bui ldi ngs i n the wor ld, f or i t was made of ir on and gl as. It was one of the bi ggest bui ldings of al ti me and a l ot of people f rom many count ri es came t o see it . A great many goods wer e sent t o the exhibit ion f r om vari ous par ts of the wor ld. There was al so a gr eat deal of m achiner y on display. The most wonderf ul pi ece of machinery on show was Nasm yt h39。 Leson77 A successf ul operati on 一例成功的手術(shù) The mummy of an Egypti an woman who di ed in 800 B. C. has j ust had an oper ati on. The mummy i s that of Shepenmut who wa