【正文】 , m il k, chocol ate, and sweets. Yest er day I pai d him a vi si t. I rang t he bel l and was not sur pri sed to see that Herbert was sti l as fat as ever . He led me int o his r oom and hurr iedly hi d a l ar ge parcel under his desk. It was obvious t hat he was very embar rased. When I asked him what he was doi ng, he smi led guil ti ly and t hen put t he par cel on t he desk. He expl ai ned that hi s diet was so st ri ct that he had t o r ewar d himself occasi onal y. Then he showed me t he cont ent s of the parcel. I t contained f ive l arge bars of chocol at e and three bags of sweets! Leson52 A pret y carpet 漂亮的地毯 We have just m oved i nto a new house and I have been worki ng har d al m or ning. I have been tr ying t o get m y new r oom i n order. This has not been easy because I own over a t housand books. To make mat er s wor se, the r oom i s rather smal , so I have tempor ar il y put my books on the f loor. At t he moment, they cover every inch of fl oor space and I actual y have t o wal k on them to get in or out of the r oom . A shor t whil e ago, my si st er hel ped me to car ry one of my old bookcases up the stair s. She went int o my room and got a big sur pr ise when she saw al those books on t he fl oor. 39。 she said. She gazed at it f or some t ime then added, 39。t need bookcases at al l. You can sit here i n your spare t ime and read the carpet! 39。The Reveal er 39。cur s ed tr e39。 i f he pi cks a leaf, he wi l die. Many vil lagers beli eve that he tr ee has al ready cl aimed a num ber of victi ms. The vi car has been asked to have t he tr e cut down, but so far he has ref used. He has poi nt ed out hat t he tr ee is a useful sour ce of i n e as touri st s have been ing f r om al part s of the count ry to see it . In spit e of al that has been sai d, the tour istshave been pi cki ng leaves and cutt ing t hei r nam es on the t reet runk. So far , not one of them has been st ruck down by sudden death! Leson59 In or out ？ 進來還是出去？ Our dog, Rex, used to si t out si de our f ront gate and bark. Ever y t ime he want ed to e into the garden he would bar k until s omeone opened the gate. As t he nei ghbour s plained of the noise, my husband spent weeks tr ai ning hi m t o press his paw on t he lat ch to l et hi msel f in. Rex soon became an exper t at openi ng the gat e. However, when I was going out shopping l ast week, I noti ced him in t he gar den near t he gat e. This time he was bar king s o t hat someone woul d l et hi m out ! Since then, he has devel oped another bad habi t. As soon as he opens the gate f r om t he out si de, he es int o the garden and wait s unti l t he gat e shut s. Then he sit s and bar ks unt il someone l ets hi m out. Af ter t hi s he immediately lets hi msel f in and begins barki ng again. Yesterday my husband removed the gate and Rex got so annoyed we have not seen him since. Leson60 The fut ure 卜算未來 At a vi l age f air , I decided t o visit a f ort une tel er cal ed Madam Bel li nsky. I went i nto her tent and she t ol d me to sit down. Af ter I had gi ven her some money, she l ooked i nt o a cr yst al bal and sai d: 39。 As soon as I went out si de, I f or got al l about Madam Bel linsky because my wi fe hur ri ed towar ds me. 39。 she asked impati ent ly. 39。 As she walked away, I f oll owed her out of the f ai r. Leson61 Troubl e wi th t he Hubbl e 哈 勃望遠鏡的困境 I n fut ure, ast ronaut s wil l be requir ed to descend f rom a spaceshi p whil e i t i s sti l in space and to r eturn to i t. The abil it y to do this wi l l be necessary i n f ut ure f li ghts t o distant pla s. Scienti st s are now tr ying t o discover if t his i s possible. The spaceshi p Astr a which l eft t he ear th a short t ime ago, wil l be tr avel ling three hundred mi les i nto space. At a cer ta i n point, t he Astr a wil l st op for a short t ime and an astr onaut wi l at em pt t o leave the stat ionary spaceship and t hen r etur n to i t. We shal l not know whether the experi ment has been successful unt il we have r eceived a r adio message. The f i r st m essage i s expect ed t o ar r i ve at 7 o39。 And a woman can39。 she answered. Ten mi nut es l ater we wal ked out of the shop together. My wif e was weari ng a hat that looked l ike a light house ! Leson42 Not very musi cal 并非很懂音樂 As we had had a l ong walk t hrough one of the mar ket s of Old Delhi, we st opped at a square to have a r est. Af ter a t ime, we not iced a snakecharmer wi th two l arge baskets at t he ot her si de of t he square, so we went to have a l ook at hi m. As soon as he saw us, he picked up a long pipe whi ch was cover ed wit h coins and opened one of the baskets. When he began t o play a tune, we had our f ir st gli mpse of the snake. It r ose out of the basket and began t o fol low the movements of the pi pe. We were ver y much sur pri sed when t he snake char mer suddenly began to pl ay jazz tunes and moder n pop songs. The snake, however, cont inued to 39。 sl owl y. It obviously could not tel l t he dif fer ence between I ndi an musi c and jazz! Lesson43 O ver t he South Pol e 飛越南極 In 1929, three years af ter his f li ght over the Nor th Pole, t he Ameri can explor er , R. E. Byrd, succesful ly f lew over t he Sout h Pole f or the f ir st t ime. Though, at fi rst, Byr d and his men wer e able t o take a gr eat many photographs of the mountai ns t hat l ay bel ow, they soon ran i nt o ser ious t rouble. At one poi nt, it seem ed cer tain that their plane would cr ash. I t could onl y get over the mountai ns if it r ose t o 10,000 f eet . Byr d at once or der ed his m en to t hrow out t wo heavy f ood sacks. The pl ane was t hen abl e to ri se and i t cl ear ed the mount ai ns by 400 feet. Byrd now knew that he would be abl e to r each t he Sout h Pole which was 300 mi les away, f or there wer e no mor e mountains i n si ght . The air craft was able to f ly o