【正文】 di ng new roads and a special rai lwayl ine. The Games wi l be hel d j ust outside t he capit al and t he whole ar ea wi l l be cal ed 39。s mot her , who swam t he Channel her sel f when she was a gi rl . Lesson37 The Olym pic Gam es 奧林匹克運(yùn)動會 The Ol ympic Gam es wi l be held in our count ry i n f our years39。s father wi l set out wit h her in a smal l boat. Mr Hart has tr ai ned his daught er f or year s. Tomor row he wil l be watching her anxi ously as she swim s the l ong di st ance t o England. Erna i nt ends t o take short rests every two hours. She wi 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 damaged and easy to r ecognize. Shor tl y aft erwar ds, the pol ice stopped t he car and both men were ar rested. Lesson36 Across the Channel 橫渡海峽 Er na Hart i s goi ng to swi m acr oss t he Engl ish Channel t om or r ow. She i s going t o set out fr om t he French coast at f ive o39。 gave39。t any in si ght : they had al run away! The man l aughed when he r eali zed what had happened. He cal led out to t he chi ldr en and threw the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Succes st ory 成功者的故事 Yester day af ternoon Fr ank Hawki ns was tel ling me about his experi ences as a young m an. Frank i s now t he head of a very l arge busines pany, but as a boy he used t o work in a smal l shop. It was his j ob to repai r bicycl es and at t hat t ime he used to work f ourt en hour s a day. He saved money f or year s and in 1938 he bought a smal wor kshop of hi s own. Duri ng the war Fr ank used to make spare par ts f or aer opl anes. At that ti me he had two hel per s. By the end of the war , the smal wor k shop had bee a l ar ge factor y whi ch empl oyed seven hundr ed and t wenty ei ght people. Fr ank smil ed when he remembered hi s har d earl y year s and t he l ong road to success. He was sti l smil ing when t he door opened and hi s wif e cam e in. She wanted hi m t o repair t hei r son39。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 Fawcet t39。s fi rs t passenger was a doct or who f lew f rom Bi rmi ngham to a lonely vi lage i n the Welsh mountai ns. Since then, Capt ain Fawcet has fl own passengers to m any unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a bl ock of f lat s and on another occasion, he landed i n a deser ted car par k. Capt ai n Fawcet t has j ust r efused a st range r equest f rom a busi nessman. The man want ed to fl y to Rockal , a lonely i sl and in t he At lanti c Ocean, but Captai n Fawcet t di d not take him because the tr ip was too danger ous. Leson30 Foot ball or polo? 足球還是水球？ The Wayle is a smal r iver that cut s acr oss t he par k near my home. I li ke si t ing by t he Wayle on f i ne af ter noons. I t was warm last Sunday, so I went and sat on t he ri ver bank as usual. Some chil dren wer e playing games on the bank and ther e were some people r owing on t he ri ver . Suddenly, one of the childr en kicked a bal l ver y hard and i t went t owards a pasi ng boa t. Som e peopl e on t he bank cal ed out t o the m an in t he boat , but he did not hear t hem . The bal l st ruck him so har d t hat he near ly fel l i nto t he water . I t urned to look at the chil dren, but ther e weren39。s bi cycle! Leson32 Shoppi ng made easy 購物變得很方便 People ar e not so honest as they once were. The temptat ion t o steal i s greater than ever bef or e especial y in large shops. A det ect ive r ecentl y watched a wel dr esed woman who al ways went i nt o a l ar ge stor e on Monday morni ngs. One Monday, t her e wer e fewer peopl e in the shop than usual when the wom an came in, so it was easi er f or the detecti ve to wat ch her . The woman fi rst bought a f ew smal art icl es. Af ter a li t le t im e, she chose one of the most expensi ve dresses in the shop and handed it t o an asistant who wr apped i t up for her as qui ckl y as possible. Then the woman si mply took the par cel and walked out of t he shop wi thout payi ng. When she was ar est ed, t he det ect ive f ound out that the shopasi st ant was her daughter . The gi rl 39。 her mother a f ree dr ess once a week ! l eson33 Out of the darkness 沖出黑暗 Near ly a week passed bef ore t he gir l was abl e to explai n what had happened t o her . One aft ernoon she set out f rom the coast i n a smal boat and was caught i n a storm . Towar ds evening, the boat st ruck a r ock and the gir l jumped i nt o t he sea. Then she swam t o the shore af ter spending t he whole ni ght i n the wat er . Duri ng that ti me she cover ed a distance of ei ght m iles. Ear ly next mor ni ng, she saw a l ight ahead. She knew she was near t he shor e because t he li ght was hi gh up on the cl if fs. On ar ivi ng at he shor e, t he gir l st ruggled up t he cl if f towar ds the li ght she had sen. That was al she remem ber ed. When she woke up a day l at er, she found her sel f in hos pit al . Lesson34 Quick work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been wor ri ed al the week. Last Tuesday he r eceived a l et ter f rom the l ocal pol ice. In t he let ter he was asked to cal l at t he st at ion. Ted wonder ed why he was wanted by t he pol ice, but he went to t he stati on yester day and now he is not worr ied any mor e. At the stati on, he was t old by a smi li ng policeman t hat his bi cycl e had been f ound. Five days ago, t he pol iceman tol d him , t he bicycl e was picked up i n a smal vil lage four hundr ed mi les away. I t is now bei ng sent to hi s home by t rain. Ted was most sur pri sed when he hear d t he news. He was amused too, because he never expect ed the bi cycle t o be f ound. It was stol en twenty year s ago when Ted was a boy of f if teen ! Leson35 Stop t hief ! 捉賊！ Rov Trenton used to dr ive a taxi. A short whi le ago, however, he became a bus dri ver and he was not r egret ed it . He is f indi ng hi s new wor k