【正文】 s i ng to The Gl obe soon,39。Wil l you be seeing i t ?39。 No,39。Wil l you be spendi ng your holi days abr oad t his year ?39。 No, 39。 Wi l you be staying i n England?39。 No, 39。 Young man, 39。 if you ate m or e and tal ked l es, we woul d bot h enjoy our dinner !39。Do you cal l that a hat ?39。You needn39。 my wif e answer ed as she l ooked at her sel f in 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 r egret ed sayi ng i t alm ost at once. 39。t have sai d that,39。 I need not r emi nd you of that er i bl e ti e you bought yest er day.39。 I fi nd it beaut if ul,39。A man can never have t oo i nt o t he cave hopi ng t o fi nd bur i ed t r easur e. The l e ader of t he part y was exam i ni ng the soi l near t he ent rance to t he cave when t he machi ne showed t hat t her e was gold under the gr ound. Very excit ed, t he part y dug a hol e t wo feet deep. They f i nal y f ound a sm al l gol d coi n whi ch was al most wort hl es. The par t y then sear ched t he whol e cave t hor oughl y but did not fi nd anyt hing except an empt y ti n tr unk. I n spi t e of t his, m any peopl e ar e conf i dent that 39。 m ay r eveal somet hi ng of val ue f air l y soon. Lesson56 Fast er t han sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a r ace is held f or old cars. A l ot of car s ent er ed f or t hi s r ace l ast year and t her e was a gr eat deal of excit em ent j ust bef or e it began. One of t he m ost handsom e car s was a Roll s Royce Si l ver Ghost . The m ost unusual car was a Benz whi ch had onl y t hr ee wheel s. Bui lt i n 1885, it was t he ol dest car t aking part . Aft er a great m any l oud expl osi ons, t he r ace began. Many of t he car s br oke down on t he cour se and some dr ivers spent m or e t im e under t heir cars t han in t hem ! A few car s, however , pl et ed t he r ace. The wi nni ng car r eached a speed of f ort y mi les an hour m uch f ast er t han any of i ts r ivals. It sped downhil l at he end of the r ace and it s dri ver had a l ot of t r oubl e t r yi ng t o st op it . The race gave ever yone a gr eat deal of pleasur e. I t was ver y dif f er ent f r om modern car r aces but no l es exci ti ng. Lesson57 Can I hel p you, m adam ? 你要買什么，夫人？ A woman i n bl ue j eans stood at the wi ndow of an expensi ve shop. Though she hesi tat ed f or a mom ent, she fi nal l y went i n and asked t o se a dr es t hat was i n t he wi ndow. The assi stant who ser ved her di d not l ike t he way she was dr esed. Gl anci ng at her scor nfull y, he t ol d her t hat t he dr es was sol d. The woman wal ked out of t he shop angr il y and deci ded t o puni sh the asi st ant next day. She retur ned t o t he shop t he fol lowing morni ng dr esed i n a fur coat, wi th a handbag i n one hand and a long umbr el la i n t he ot her . Af ter seeking out the r ude assista nt she asked f or the same dr ess. Not r eal izing who she was, the assi stant was eager t o serve her this t im e wi th gr eat dif fi cul ty, he cli mbed int o the shop window to get the dr ess. As soon as she saw it , t he woman said s m any ties.39。And a woman can39。 she answer ed. Ten m inutes l at er we walked out of t he shop t oget her . My wi f e was wear ing a hat t hat l ooked l ike a l ighthouse ! Lesson42 Not very musical 并非很懂音樂 As we had had a long wal k t hr ough one of t he markets of Ol d Del hi , we stopped at a squar e t o have a rest. Af ter a ti me, we noti ced a snake char mer wit h t wo l ar ge baskets at the other side of the squar e, so we went t o have a look at him . As soon as he saw us, he pi cked up a l ong pipe whi ch was covered wi th coi ns and opened one of t he basket s. When he began t o play a t une, we had our fi rst gli mpse of t he snake. It r ose out of t he basket and began to f ol l ow t he m ovem ent s 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 Pol e, 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 photogra phs 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 to 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 m ount ai ns by 400 feet. Byrd now knew t hat 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 mountai ns i n sight. The air craf t was able to f ly over the endless whit e plains wi thout dif fi cul ty. Lesson44 Through t he forest 穿過森林 Mr s Anne Ster ling di d not think of t he ri sk she was t aki ng when she ran t hr ough a for est aft er two m en. They had rushed up to her whi le she was havi ng a piic at the edge of a f or est wi th her chil dr en and tr ied t o steal her handbag. I n t he st ruggle, the str ap broke and, wi t h the bag i n their possessi on, both men start ed running t hrough the t rees. Mrs St erl ing got so angr y that she r an aft er t hem . She was soon out of br eat h, but she conti nued to r un. When she caught up wi th them, she saw that hey had sat down and were goi ng through t he cont ent s of t he bag, so she ran str aight at t hem . The m en got such a fr ight that they dr opped t he bag and r an away. 39。 sai d Mrs St er li ng lat er , 39。 Les