【正文】 pendi ng your hol idays abr oad t his year ?39。 No, 39。 Wil l you be st ayi ng in Engl and?39。 No,39。 Young man,39。 i f you at e mor e and t alked l ess, we woul d bot h enj oy our di nner !39。Do you cal t hat a hat ?39。You needn39。 m y wi f e answered as she looked at her self i n t he m ir r or . I sat down on one of those m oder n chai r s wit h hol es i n i t and wait ed. We had been i n t he hat shop f or hal f an hour and m y wif e was st il l i n fr ont of t he m ir r or . 39。t buy t hi ngs we don39。 I r em ar ked suddenl y. I regret ed sayi ng it alm ost at once. 39。t have sai d t hat, 39。 I need not r em ind you of t hat ter ri bl e ti e you bought yest erday. 39。 I f ind i t beauti f ul, 39。A m an can never have t oo i nt o t he cave hopi ng t o f i nd buri ed tr easur e. The l eader of t he par t y was exami ning t he soil near the entr ance t o t he cave when t he m achi ne showed t hat t her e was gol d under t he gr ound. Ver y exci ted, t he part y dug a hol e t wo f eet deep. They fi nal l y found a sm al gol d coi n which was alm ost wor thl ess. The part y t hen searched the whol e cave t hor oughl y but di d not f i nd anyt hi ng except an em pt y t in t r unk. I n spit e of t hi s, m any peopl e ar e confi dent t hat 39。 m ay r eveal som et hing of value f ai rl y soon. Leson56 Fast er t han sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a r ace i s hel d f or ol d car s. A l ot of car s ent ered f or this r ace last year and t here was a gr eat deal of exci t em ent j ust bef ore i t began. One of t he m ost handsom e car s was a Roll s Royce Sil ver Ghost. The m ost unusual car was a Benz which had only t hree wheels. Bui lt i n 1885, i t was the ol dest ca r t aki ng par t. Af ter a gr eat m any l oud explosi ons, t he race began. Many of the cars br oke down on the course and som e dri ver s spent m or e t im e under t hei r car s than i n them !球 還 是水球？ The Wayle i s a smal ri ver t hat cuts acr oss t he par k near my hom e. I l ike sit ti ng by the Wayl e on f ine aft ernoons. I t was war m last Sunday, so I went and sat on the r iver bank as usual . Som e childr en were pl ayi ng gam es on the bank and there wer e som e peopl e rowi ng on the r iver . Suddenl y, one of t he chi ldren ki cked a bal l ve r y har d and it went towar ds a passing boat. Some 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 i nto t he water . I t urned to look at the chil dr en, but ther e weren39。s bi cycl e! Lesson32 Shopping m ade easy 購(gòu)物變得很方便 People ar e not so honest as they once were. The tempt at ion t o steal is gr eater t han ever bef oreespecial y i n lar ge shops. A det ect ive r ecentl y watched a wel l dr esed woman who al ways went i nto a large stor e on Monday mor ni ngs. One Monday, there wer e f ewer people i n the shop than usual when t he woman cam e in, so it was easi er f or the detecti ve to wat ch her . The woman f ir st bought a f ew smal ar ti cl es. Af ter a l it le tim e, she chose one of the m ost 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 poss ible. Then the wom an si mply t ook the parcel 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 shop asi st ant was her daughter. The gi rl 39。 her mother a f ree dress 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 able to explain what had happened to her . One aft er noon she set out f rom the coast in a sm al boat and was caught in a st orm. Towar ds evening, the boat st ruck a r ock and t he gir l j umped int o the sea. Then she swam t o the shore af ter spending t he whol e night in the wat er . Duri ng that ti me she covered a di st ance of eight mi les. Ea r ly next morni ng, she saw a li ght ahead. She knew she was near t he shore because t he li ght was high up on the cli f s. On ar iving at t he shore, t he gi rl str uggl ed up the cl if f towards t he li ght she had seen. That was al she remembered. When she woke up a day lat er , she f ound her sel f i n hospi t al. Lesson34 Q ui ck work 破案“神速” Ted Robinson has been wor ri ed al l the week. Last Tuesday he recei ved a l et ter fr om t he local poli ce. I n t he l et er he was asked to cal at the stati on. Ted wonder ed why he was want ed by t he poli ce, but he went t o t he st at i on yester day and now he i s not wor ri ed any mor e. At t he st at i on, he was t ol d by a smil i ng pol icem an t hat his bi cycle had been f ound. Fi ve days ago, the poli cem an t old him , t he bi cycl e was pi cked up i n a smal vi l age f our hundr ed m il es away. It i s now being sent t o his home by t r ai n. Ted was m ost surpri sed when he hear d the news. He was am used t oo, because he never expected t he bi cycl e t o be found. I t was st olen t went y year s ago when Ted was a boy of fi ft een ! Lesson35 St op t hi ef! 捉賊！ Rov Tr ent on used t o dri ve a t axi. A shor t whil e ago, however , he becam e a bus dri ver and he was not r egr et ted i t. He i s fi ndi ng his new work f ar m or e excit i ng. When he was dri vi ng al ong Cat f or d Str eet r ecentl y, he saw t wo t hieves rush out of a shop and r un t owar ds a wait ing car. One of t hem was car ryi ng a bag ful l of m oney. Roy act ed quickly and drove t he bus st ra ight at the thi eves. The one wi th the money got such a f ri ght t hat he dr opped t he bag. As t he thieves were t ryi ng to get away in their car, Roy dr ove hi s bus i nto t he back of i t. Whi le the bater ed car was movi ng away, Roy stopped his bus and telephoned t he poli ce. The thi eves39。clock i n the m or ning. Erna i s only f our teen years old and she hopes l o set up a ne w worl d r ecor d. She i s a st r ong swi mmer and many peopl e feel that she i s sur e to