【正文】 , t he pol iceman gave hi m the sam e answer. The day af ter, Cr awley went t o the house once m or e and asked exactl y t he same quest i on. This t im e, t he poli cem an l ost hi s t em per. 39。 he shout ed, 39。 I know,39。 but I l ove t o hear you say it ! 39。f r ee ri des39。 ti me. Even so, peopl e ar e goi ng t o f ind i t di f i cult t o get to wor k. But so f ar, t he publi c has expr esed it s grati t ude t o t he st udents i n l et ters t o t he Press. Onl y one or t wo people have obj ect ed t hat t he st udents wi l dri ve t oo fast ! Leson85 Never too ol d t o learn 活到老學(xué)到老 I have j ust r ecei ved a l et t er f r om my ol d school inf or mi ng me t hat m y f orm er head mast er, Mr Regm al d Page, wi l be r et ir i ng next week. Pupil s of t he school, ol d and new, wi l be sendi ng him a pr esent t o m ar k t he occasi on. Al l those who have contr i but ed t owar ds t he gi ft wi l si gn their nam es i n a lar ge al bum whi ch wil l be sent to t he headm aster39。 SOS39。To end our special news bul leti n,39。 we are t aking you to the macaroni fi elds of Calabri a. Macaroni has been gr own in this ar ea for over six hundr ed years. Two of t he leadi ng grower s, Gi useppe Mol dova and Ri car do Brabante, tel me that they have been expecti ng a spl endi d crop t his year and harvesti ng has begun ear li er t han usual. Her e you can see two worker s who, between t hem, have j ust f ini shed cutt ing t hree 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 in t he Temple of Thebes. As t her e were st range marks on t he X ray plat es t aken of t he mummy, doct ors have been tr yi ng to fi nd out whether t he wom an di ed of a rare di sease. The only way to do this was t o operate. The oper ation, which l ast ed for over four hour s, pr oved t o be very di f icult because of the hard r esi n whi ch covered t he ski n. The doctor s removed a sect ion of t he m ummy and sent i t to a labor ator y. They also f ound somethi ng which t he X ray of the god Duamut ef . This god whi ch has t he head of a cow was nor mal y placed inside a mum my. The doctor s have not yet decided how t he woman died. They feared t hat t he mummy woul d f al l to pi eces when t he y cut it open, but for tunately t his has not happened. The mummy successful ly survi ved t he oper ation. Lesson78 The last one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter r eading an ar ti cl e enti tl ed 39。 I lit a ci gar ete to calm my ner ves. I sm oked wi th conc ent rat ion and pleasur e as I was sur e that thi s would be m y last ci gar et e. For a whole week I di d not smoke at al and dur ing this t im e, my wif e suff er ed ter ri bly. I had al l the usual sym ptoms of som eone gi vi ng up smoking: a bad temper and an enor mous appeti te. My fr iends kept on off eri ng me cigar et tes and cigars. They made no ef f or t to hi de their amusem ent whenever I produced a packet of sweets f rom my pocket . Af ter seven days of t hi s I went to a par ty. Ever ybody ar ound me was smoking and I f el t ext remely unf ort abl e. When my old fr iend Br ian ur ged m e to accept a ci gar et te, it wa s m or e t han I could bear. I t ook one gui lti ly, l it it and smoked wit h sat isf acti on. My wi fe was del ighted t hat t hi ngs had r etur ned t o normal once more. Anyway, as Br ian poi nt ed out , it i s the easi est thi ng in the wor ld t o give up smoking. He hi msel f has done it l ots of ti mes! Lesson79 By ai r 乘飛機(jī) I used t o tr avel by ai r a gr eat deal when I was a boy. My par ents, used to li ve in South Ameri ca and I used to fl y ther e fr om Eur ope in t he hol idays. An ai rhostess would t ake charge of me and I never had an unpleasant exper ience. I am used to t ravel ing by ai r and only on one occasi on have I ever felt f ri ghtened. Af ter taking of f, we were f lyi ng low over the ci ty and slowl y gai ni ng height , when t he plane suddenly t urned r ound and f lew back t o the air port . Whil e we wer e wait ing t o l and, an air host es t old us t o keep calm and to get of f the plane quietl y as soon as i t had t ouched down. Ever ybody on board was worr ied and we wer e curi ous t o f ind out what had happened. Lat er we learnt that there was a ver y i mport ant person on boar d. The pol ice had been told that a bom b had been plant ed on the plane. Af t er we had landed, the pl ane was sear ched thoroughly. For t unatel y, nothi ng was found and fi ve hour s lat er we were able to t ake of f agai n. Lesson80 The Crystal Palace 水晶宮 Per haps t he most ext raordi nar y buil di ng of the nieenth centur y was the Cr ystal Pal ace, which was buil t in Hyde Par k f or t he Gr eat Exhibit ion of 1851. The Cr yst al Pal ace was di f er ent f r om al ot her buil di ngs in t he worl d, for it was m ade of i ron and glass. I t was one of t he biggest buil di ngs of al l t im e and a lot of people fr om m any countr ies cam e to see i t. A gr eat m any goods we re sent t o t he exhi bi ti on fr om var i ous part s of the wor ld. There was also a gr eat deal of m achinery on display. The m ost wonderf ul pi ece of machinery on show was Nasmyt h39。s clot hes. Now, dressed i n a blue uni form and wi th a ri fl e over his shoulder, t he pr isoner m ar ched bol dl y up and down i n fr ont of t he cam p. He coul d hear shout ing i n the camp i tself . Lights wer e blazing and men wer e r unni ng her e and there: they had just discovered t hat a pr isoner had escaped. At t hat m om ent , a lar ge bl a ck car wi th f our of f icer s i nside i t, stopped at he cam p gates. The of fi cer s got out and the pri soner stood to at ten