【正文】 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 i nto my r oom and got a bi g surpr ise when she saw al l those books on the f loor . 39。 she sai d. She gazed at i t for some ti me t hen added, 39。t need bookcases at al . You can si t her e in your spar e t ime and r ead the car pet! 39。The Revealer 39。cursed tr ee39。 if he pi cks a l eaf , he wi l l di e. Many vi l ager s bel ieve that the t ree has alr eady clai med a number of vi ct im s. The vicar has bee n asked t o have the tr ee cut down, but so f ar he has r efused. He has pointed out that the t ree i s a usef ul source of ine as t our ists have been i ng fr om al l par ts of t he countr y t o see i t. I n spi te of al t hat has been said, the t ouri st s have been picking l eaves and cut ti ng their names on t he tr e tr unk. So f ar , not one of them has been str uck down by sudden deat h! Lesson59 In or out ？ 進(jìn)來還是出去？ Our dog, Rex, used t o sit outside our fr ont gate and bar k. Every ti me he wanted t o e int o the gar den he woul d bark unti l som eone opened t he gat e. As the neighbour s plained of the noi se, my husband spent weeks tr aining hi m t o press his paw on the l at ch to l et hi msel f in. Rex soon became an exper t at opening t he gat e. However, when I was going out shopping l ast week, I not iced him in the garden near t he gat e. Thi s ti me he was barking so t hat s omeone would l et hi m out ! Since then, he has devel oped another bad habit . As soon as he opens the gate f rom the outsi de, he es into the garden and wait s unt il t he gat e shut s. Then he sit s and bar ks unt il someone l ets him out. Af ter thi s he immedi ately l ets hi msel f in and begins barking again. Yest erday my husband removed the gate and Rex got so annoyed we have not seen him si nce. Lesson60 The fut ure 卜算未來 At a vi l age f air , I decided to visit a f ort unet el er cal ed Madam Bel linsky. I went i nt o her tent and she tol d me t o sit down. Aft er I had gi ven her some money, she looked int o a crystal bal and sai d: 39。 As soon as I went out si de, I f ot al l about Madam Bel li nsky because my wi f e hur r ied towar ds me. 39。 she asked impat iently. 39。 As she walked away, I f oll owed her out of the f ai r. Leson61 Troubl e wi th the Hubbl e 哈勃望遠(yuǎn)鏡的困境 I n fut ure, ast ronaut s wi 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 t ai 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. W e shal l not know whether the experi ment has been successful unt il we have r eceived a r adio m essage. The fi rst message is expect ed to ar ri ve at 7 o39。s cl osest f r i ends asked hi m t o m ake a speech at a weddi ng r ecept i on. Thi s i s t he sor t of t hi ng t hat opened one of the basket s. When he began to pl ay a tune, we had our f i rst gl im pse of t he snake. I t rose out of t he basket and began t o f oll ow the m ovements of t he pipe. We wer e ver y m uch surpr ised when the snake charmer suddenl y began t o play j azz t unes and modern pop songs. The snake, however , conti nued t o 39。 slowl y. I t obvi ously coul d not t el the di f er ence bet wen I ndian music and j az! Leson43 Over the Sout h Pole 飛越南極 I n 1929, thr ee year s af ter his fl ight over the Nor th Pol e, t he Amer ican expl orer, R. E. Byr d, successf ull y fl ew over the South Pol e for t he fi rst ti me. Though, at f ir st , Byrd and his men were able to t ake a great many phot ogr aphs of the mount ai ns that lay below, t hey soon ran i nto seri ous tr oubl e. At one point , i t seemed cert ai n t hat their pl ane woul d crash. I t coul d only get over t he mount ains if i t rose to 10, 000 feet. Byrd at once ordered hi s men t o thr ow out two heavy food sacks. The plane was then able t o r ise and it cleared t he mountains by 400 f et . Byr d now knew t hat he woul d be abl e t o reach the South Pol e whi ch was 300 m il es away, for t her e were no more mount ains in si ght . The ai rcr af t was abl e t o fl y over t he endl es whi te pl ai ns wit hout di f icult y. Leson44 Through t he f orest 穿過森林 Mrs Anne St er li ng did not t hi nk of the r isk she was taking when she r an t hrough a f orest af ter two men. They had r ushed up t o her whi le she was having a pi i c at t he edge of a f orest wit h her chi ldren and t ri ed to steal her handbag. In the str uggl e, t he st rap br oke and, wi th t he bag in t hei r possession, bot h men star ted r unni ng thr ough t he tr ees. Mr s Ster li ng got so angr y t hat she ran af ter them. She was soon out of breath, but she cont inued to run. When she caught up wit h t hem, she saw that the y had sat down and wer e goi ng thr ough the cont ent s of the bag, so she r an st raight at them. The men got such a f ri ght t hat t hey dr opped t he bag and ran away. 39。 said Mr s Sterl ing l at er, 39。 Lesson45 A clear conscience 問心無愧 The whol e vil lage soon lear nt t hat a l ar ge sum of money had been l ost . Sam Bent on, t he local but cher , had l ost his wal let whil e taking hi s savi ngs t o the post off ice. Sam was sur e t hat the wal let must have been found by one of the vi