【正文】 n anci ent m yt hs. He has j ust bought a new house in t he city, but ever since he moved in, he has had t rouble wi t h motor ists. when he ret ur ns home at night, he always f inds that someone has par ked a car outside hi s gat e. Because of t hi s, he has not been able t o get hi s own car into hi s garage even once. Jasper has put up39。 si gns out si de his gate, but t hese have not had any ef ect . Now he has put an ugl y st one head over the gate. It i s one of t he ugl iest faces I have ever seen. I asked hi m what it was and he t ol d me that i t was Medusa, the Gor gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wil l tur n motor ists t o stone. But none of them has been tur ned t o stone yet! Leson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Captai n Ben Fawcet t has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service. The 39。 i s a smal Swi s aeroplane cal ed a 39。. This wonder ful plane can car r y seven passenger s. The most sur pri si ng thi ng about it , however, i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water, or even on a ploughed f iel d. Captai n Fawcet t39。t any i n sight: t hey had al l run away! The man laughed when he reali zed what had happened. He cal e d out t o the chi ldren and t hr ew t he bal l back t o the bank. Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事 Yest erday aft ernoon Frank Hawki ns was t el ing me about his exper iences as a young man. Frank is now the head of a ver y l ar ge busi ness pany, but as a boy he used to wor k i n a smal shop. I t was hi s job t o r epai r bi cycl es and at that ti me he used to wor k f our teen hours a day. He saved money f or years and i n 1938 he bought a smal wor k shop of hi s own. Dur ing t he war Frank used to m ake spare part s for aeroplanes. At t hat t ime he had t wo helper s. By t he end of t he war, t he sm al l work shop had bee a lar ge factory which empl oyed seven hundred and t went yeight peopl e. Fr ank smi led when he r emembered his har d ear ly years and t he long r oad to success. He was st il smi li ng when the door opened and his wi fe came i n. She want ed him to r epai r t hei r son39。 gave39。 car was badl y dam aged and easy to r ecogni ze. Shor tl y aft e r war ds, t he poli ce st opped t he car and bot h m en wer e ar r ested. Lesson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Er na Hart i s goi ng to swi m acr os s t he Engl ish Channel t om or r ow. She i s goi ng t o set out fr om t he French coast at f ive o39。s f at her wi l l set out wi t h her i n a sm al l boat . Mr Har t has t r ai ned hi s daught er f or year s. Tom or r ow he wi l l be wat c hi ng her anxi ousl y as she swi m s t he l ong di st ance t o Engl and. Er na ai r por t was built dur ing t he war , but f or som e reason i t coul d not be used then. Last year , however, i t came i nto use. Over a hundred people must have been dri ven away fr om t hei r hom es by the noise. I am one of t he few people left . Som et im es I t hink t his house wi l l be knocked down by a passing pl ane. I have been off er ed a l ar ge sum of money to go away, but I am determ ined to st ay her e. Ever ybody says I m ust be mad and t hey ar e probabl y r ight. Lesson22 A gl ass envelope 玻璃信封 My daught er, Jane, never dreamed of receiving a let er f r om a gi rl of her own age i n Hol land. Last year, we were t ravel ing across the Channel and Jane put a piece of paper wi th her nam e and addr ess on i t i nto a bot tl e. She t hr ew t he bot tl e int o t he sea. She never t hought of it agai n, but t en months lat er , she r ecei ved a let er f rom a gir l in Holl and. Both gi rl s wr it e to each other regularl y now. However , they have decided t o use the post of fi ce. Let ers wi l cost a l it t1e m or e, but t hey wi l cert ainly tr avel faster. Leson23 A new house 新居 I had a let er f rom my si st er yesterday. She li ves i n Ni ger ia. In her l et ter, she sai d that she woul d e to Engl and next year . If she es, she wi l l get a surpri se. We are now l ivi ng in a beauti ful new house i n t he countr y. Wor k on it had begun bef or e my si st er left . The house was pleted f ive m ont hs ago. I n my l eter , I told her t hat she coul d st ay wi th us. The house has m any large r ooms and there is a l ovel y gar den. I t is a very moder n house, so it l ooks str ange t o some peopl e. I t must be t he onl y modern house in the dist ri ct . Lesson24 It could be worse 不幸中之萬幸 I ent ered t he hot el m anager39。50 and I f el t ver y upset .39。 I said, 39。s not t her e now. 39。Ever yone39。 he sai d. He start ed to pl ai n about t hi s wi cked wor ld but was i nt er upt ed by a knock at t he door . A gir l cam e in and put an envelope on hi s desk. It cont ained amp。I f ound t his outside t his gentl em an39。 she said. 39。 I said to t he manager , 39。 l eson25 Do t he Engli sh speak Engli sh? 英國人講的是英語嗎？ I ar r ived in London at last. The r ai lway stat ion was bi g, black and dark. I did not know the way to m y hotel, so I asked a por ter. I not onl y spoke Engli sh ver y caref ul ly, but ver y clearl y as wel . The por ter, however , coul d not understand me。I am a for ei gner ,39。You39。 he sai d. I wonder. I n England, each man speaks a dif fer ent l anguage. The Engli sh understand each other, but I don39。about 39。about39。 What are you doing ?39。 I39。 I answered. 39。s a new one. Do you l ike i t ?39。 I t39。 she sai d, 39。t i t upsidedown ?39。 No Parking39。t axi 39。Pil atus Port er 39。s fi rst passenger was a doct or who fl ew f rom Bir mi ngham to a l onel y vil lage in the Wel sh mountains. Since then, Capt ai n Fawcet t has f lown passengers t o many unusual places. Once he landed on the r oof of a block of f lats and on another occasi on, he l anded i n a deser ted car par k. Captai n Fawcet t has j ust r ef used a st range request f rom a busi nessm an. The man want ed to f ly to Rockal , a lonel y i sl and in t he Atl ant ic Ocean, but Captain Fawcet t di d not t ake