【正文】 get hi s own car i nto hi s gar age even once. Jasper has put up39。 si gns out si de hi s gate, but t hese have not had any ef ect. Now he has put an ugl y st one head over t he gat e. It i s one of t he ugl iest f aces I have ever seen. I asked him what it was and he t ol d me t hat i t was Medusa, t he Gor gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wil l tur n m ot or ists t o stone. But none of them has been tur ned t o stone yet ! Leson29 Taxi ! 出租汽車(chē)！ Capt ai n Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new ser vi ce. The 39。 i s a sm al l Swi s aer opl ane cal l ed a 39。. Thi s wonderf ul pl ane can car ry seven passengers. The m ost sur pr isi ng t hi ng about i t, however , is t hat i t can l and anywher e: on snow, wat er, or even on a pl oughed f i el d. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。t any i n sight: t hey had al r un away! The m an laughed when he real i zed what had happened. He cal ed out t o t he chil dren and t hr ew t he bal l back t o t he bank. Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事 Yest erday aft ernoon Frank Hawki ns was t el ing m e about hi s exper iences as a young man. Frank i s now t he head of a ver y l ar ge busi ness pany, but as a boy he used t o work i n a smal shop. I t was hi s j ob to r epai r bi cycl es and at t hat ti me he used t o work f ourt en hours a day. He saved m oney f or year s and i n 1938 he bought a smal wor kshop of hi s own. Duri ng t he war Fr ank used t o m ake spar e par ts f or aer opl anes. At that tim e he had t wo hel per s. By the end of t he war , the sm al wor kshop had be e a l ar ge f act or y whi ch em pl oyed seven hundr ed and t went y ei ght people. Frank sm il ed when he r em em ber ed hi s hard earl y year s and t he l ong r oad t o succes. He was sti l sm il i ng when t he door opened and hi s wi fe came i n. She want ed hi m t o r epai r t hei r son39。 gave39。 car was badl y dam aged and easy t o recogni ze. Short ly af ter war ds, t he pol i ce st opped t he car and bot h m en were ar r ested. Lesson36 Across the Channel 橫渡海峽 Er na Hart i s goi ng t o swi m acr oss t he Engl ish Channel t om orr ow. She i s going t o set out fr om t he Fr ench coast at f i ve o39。s f at her wil l set out wi t h her i n a smal boat. Mr Har t has t r ai ned hi s daught er f or years. Tom orr ow he wi l be wat chi ng her anxi ously as she swim s t he l ong di st ance t o England. Er na i nt ends t o t ake shor t r ests every t wo hour s. She wil l have somet hi ng t o dr i nk but she wil l not eat any soli d f ood. Most of Er na39。s m ot her, who swam the Channel hersel f when she was a gir l. Leson37 The Ol ym pi c G ames 奧林匹克運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì) The Olym pi c Gam es wil l be hel d i n our countr y i n f our year s39。They wil l al so be bui ldi ng new roads and a special rai lwayl ine. The Games wil l be hel d j ust outside t he capit al and t he whole ar ea wi l l be cal ed 39。. Workers wil l have pleted t he new r oads by t he end of t his year . By t he end of next year, t hey wi l l have f inished work on the new st adi um . The fi ne moder n buil di ngs have been designed by Kur t Gunter. Everybody wi l be watching anxiously as t he new bui ldi ngs go up. We ar e al very excit ed and ar e l ooking for war d t o the Ol ympi c Games because t hey have never been hel d befor e in this countr y. Lesson38 Everyt hing except he weather 惟獨(dú)沒(méi)有考慮到天氣 My old f r iend, Har ri son, had li ved i n t he Medit er ranean for many years befor e he ret ur ned to Engl and. He had oft en dreamed of ret ir ing i n England and had pl anned t o set tl e down in the count ry. He had no sooner r et urned t han he bought a fi ne house and went t o l ive t her e. Al most imm edi at ely he began to pl ai n about t he weat her , for even though it was sti l sum mer, i t r ained cont inual y and it was m i ght as wel l have them, 39。You m ust give up f is hing! 39。 I t39。 But they don39。m not real y int er est ed in fi shing. I am onl y int er est ed in sit ti ng in a boat and doing nothi ng at al ! Lesson21 Mad or not? 是不是瘋了？ Aer opl anes ar e sl owly dr ivi ng me m ad. I li ve near an air port and passing pl anes can be hear d night and day. The ai rpor t was bui lt duri ng the war , but f or some r eason i t could not be used then. Last year, however , it came i nt o use. Over a hundr ed peopl e must have been dr iven away f rom their home s by t he noi se. I am one of t he few peopl e l ef t. Someti mes I think this house wil l be knocked down by a pasing pl ane. I have been off ered a l arge sum of money t o go away, but I am deter mined t o st ay here. Ever ybody says I must be m ad and t hey ar e pr obably r ight. Lesson22 A glass envelope 玻璃信封 My daughter, Jane, never dr eamed of r eceivi ng a let ter fr om a gi rl of her own age in Hol land. Last year , we were tr avel ing a cross the Channel and Jane put a pi ece of paper wi th her name and addr es on i t into a bottl e. She t hrew the bott le i nto t he sea. She never thought of i t again, but t en months l at er, she recei ved a let er fr om a gi rl i n Holl and. Both gir ls wr it e to each other r egular ly now. However, t hey have deci ded t o use the post of f ice. Let ters wi l l cost a li t 1e m ore, but t hey wil l cer tainl y tr avel f aster . Lesson23 A new house 新居 I had a let er fr om my si ster yester day. She li ves i n Ni ger ia. I n her l eter , she said t hat she would e t o England next ye ar. I f she es, she wi l get a sur pr i se. We ar e now li ving i n a beaut if ul new house i n the countr y. Work on it had begun befor e my si st er l eft . The house was pleted f ive m ont hs ago. In my l et ter , I t old her that she could st ay wit h us. The house has m any l arge r oom s and there i s a lovely gar den. I t i s a very m oder n house, so it looks str ange t o som e peopl e. I t must be t he onl y modern house in the distr ict . Lesson24 It coul d be worse 不幸中之萬(wàn)幸 I ent er ed the hot el m anager 3