【正文】 way of pr eventi ng him fr om foll owing m e around al mor ning. 39。 I said. 39。 39。 Ber t answered. 39。r e not busy doing anything, are you ?39。 No, not at al l, 39。 I39。 39。 he asked, bef or e I had f inished speaking. ? Not at al ,39。but I39。 39。l e wi th you, 39。 Ther e39。wait ing r oom ! 39。Just one mor e thi ng, Mr Eam es. Let us suppose t hat a chil d suddenly cr osses the r oad in f ront of you. As soon as I tap on t he window, I want the car t o be stopped imm edi ately.39。Mr Eames,39。 you have j ust kil led t hat chil d !39。s foot st eps m any years l ater, Si r Malcolm 39。s f ishing, or ei ght hours i n a ci nema seeing t he same fi lm over and over again, is usual ly as f ar as t hey get . They have al been put t o shame by a boy who, whi le pl ayi ng tr uant , tr avel ed 1600 mil es. He hi tch hiked to Dover and, t owards eveni ng, went int o a boat t o f ind somewher e t o sl eep. When he woke up next mor ni ng, he di scover ed that the boat had, in the meanti me, t ravel ed to Cal ai s. No one not iced the boy as he crept off . From there, he hit ch hiked to Par is i n a l or r y. The dr iver gave him a f ew bi scuit s and a cup of coff ee and lef t hi m j ust outside t he cit y. The next car the boy stopped did not take hi m i nto t he centr e of Pari s as he hoped it woul d, but to Per pignan on the Fr enchSpanish border . Ther e he was pi cked up by a policeman and sent back to Engl and by t he local aut hor it ies. He has surel y set up a r ecor d f or t he thousands of boys who dr eam of evadi ng school. Leson74 Out of the l imel ight 舞臺(tái)之外 An anci ent bus stopped by a dry r iver bed and a par ty of f amous act ors and act r esses got off . Dressed i n dark gl ases and ol d clot hes, they had taken special precaut ions so that no one should r ecognize t hem . But as t hey soon discover ed, disguises can someti mes be too perf ect. 39。 said Glor ia Gl eam . 39。t be bet er , Gl or ia, 39。No newspaper m en, no f il m f ans! Why don39。 Meanwhi le, two other act ors, Rockwal l Sl inger and Merl in Gr eeves, had car ri ed two l arge f ood basket s to a shady spot under some tr es. When they had al made t hemselves for table, a str anger appeared. He looked ver y angry. 39。 he shouted: 39。m sher if f here. Do you se that not ice ? I t says No Camping i n case you can39。 39。said Rockwal l, 39。t be too har d on us. I 39。 39。 said t he sher if f wit h a sneer . 39。m Br i nksley Meer s, and my other name is Gl ori a Gleam. Now you get out of her e fast !39。 SOS39。To end our speci al news bull eti n, 39。 we ar e t aki ng you to t he macar oni f iel ds of Cal abr ia. Macar oni has been grown i n t hi s area f or over six hundred year s. Two of the l eading gr owers, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricardo Br abant e, t el l me t hat they have been expect ing a splendid cr op thi s year and har vest ing has begun earl ier than usual . Here you can se t wo wor kers who, bet ween them, have just f ini shed cutt ing t hr ee car t loads of gol den brown m acaroni stalks. The whol e vil lage has been wor king day and night gat her ing and t hreshi ng thi s year 39。 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 mum my i s that of Shepenm ut who was once a singer i n t he Tem ple of Thebes. As there were str ange marks on t he Xr ay plates t aken of the m ummy, doct ors have been t ryi ng to f ind out whether the wom an di ed of a rar e disease. The onl y way to do thi s wa s to operat e. The operati on, whi ch lasted f or over four hour s, pr oved to be very di f icul t because of the hard resin whi ch cover ed the ski n. The doctor s rem oved a sect ion of t he mummy and sent it to a laborator y. They al so f ound som et hing whi ch the X ray of t he god Duam ut 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 the woman di ed. They feared t hat t he mummy would f al to pieces when t hey cut it open, but f or tunately this has not happened. The mumm y succesful ly survi ved the oper ati on. Leson78 The last one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af t er r eadi ng an ar ti cle enti tl ed 39。 I li t a ci garet e to cal m m y ner ves. I smoked wit h concentr at ion and pl easur e as I was sur e t hat t hi s would be my last cigaret e. For a whol e week I di d not smoke at al and duri ng thi s ti me, my wi f e suf f er ed t er r i bl y. I had al l t he us ual sym pt om s of som eone gi vi ng up sm oki ng: a bad t em per and an enor m ous appet i t e. My f r i ends kept on of f er i ng m e ci gar et t es a nd ci gar s. They m ade no ef f or t t o hi de t hei r am usem ent whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweet s f r om m y pocket . Af t er seven day s of t hi s I went t o a par t y. Ever ybody ar ound m e was sm oki ng and I f el t ext r em el y un f or t abl e. When m y ol d f r i end Br i an ur ged m e t o accept a ci gar et t e, i t was m or e t han I coul d bear . I t ook one gui l t i l y, l i t i t and Geof f r ey l oves. He pr epared t he speech car efull y and went to t he weddi ng wi th Jenny. He had i ncl uded a large number of funny stori es in t he speech and, of cour se, it was a gr eat success. As soon as he had f i ni shed, Jenny tol d him she want ed to go hom e. Geof fr ey was a li t le di sappoi nted by t his but he di d as his daught er asked. On the way home, he asked Jenny i f she had enjoyed the speech. To his surpr ise, she said she hadn39。s hospi tal. Dr esed up as Fat her Chr ist mas and acpani ed by a 39。 of si x pret y gir ls, he set of f down the mai n str et of the cit y r iding a baby elephant cal ed Jum bo. He, should have known t hat t he pol ice would never al low thi s sor t of t hing. A poli cem an appr oached Ji mmy and t old hi m he ought to have gone al ong a sidestr eet as Jum bo was hol ding up t he t