【正文】 f ar m or e exci ti ng. When he was dri vi ng along Catf ord Str et re cent ly, he saw t wo thi eves r ush out of a shop and r un towar ds a wait ing car. One of t hem was car ryi ng a bag ful l of money. Roy act ed qui ckl y and drove t he bus st raight at he thi eves. The one wi th the money got such a f ri ght t hat he dr opped t he bag. As t he thieves were t ryi ng to get away in their car , Roy drove hi s bus i nto t he back of i t. Whi le t he bat ter ed car was movi ng away, Roy stopped his bus and telephoned t he police. The thi eves39。cl ock i n t he morni ng. Er na is only fourt en years ol d and she hopes lo set up a new wor ld r ecor d. She i s a str ong swi mm er a nd many peopl e f el that she is sure t o succeed. Er na39。s school fr iends wi l be wait ing f or her on t he Engl ish coast . Among them wil l be Erna39。 t i m e. As a gr eat many peopl e wi l be visit ing t he count ry, the gover nment wil l be bui lding new hot els, an imm ense stadium, and a f ine new swi mmi ng pool . 39。Ol ympic Ci ty39。s oper ati on had been succesf ul and t he doct or t ol d him t hat i t had been. He then asked when Mr Gil ber t would be al owed to go hom e and the doctor tol d him that he would have to st ay in hospital f or another two weeks. Then Dr Mi l ington asked the cal ler i f he was a relat ive of the pati ent .39。 t he pat ient answered,39。 Leson40 Food and tal k 進餐與交談 Last week at a di nner part y, t he host ess asked m e to si t next to Mrs Rum bol d. Mr s Rumbold was a l arge, unsmi li ng lady in a ti ght bl ack dr ess. She di d not even l ook up when I took my seat beside her. Her eyes wer e f ixed on her pl ate and i n a shor t ti me, she was busy eat ing. I tr ied to make conversati on. 39。 I sai d. 39。 No, 39。Wil l you be spending your hol idays abr oad this year ?39。 No,39。 Wil l you be st ayi ng in Engl and?39。 No,39。 Young man,39。 if you ate more and t al ked less, we woul d bot h enj oy our dinner !39。Do you cal that a hat ?39。You needn39。 m y wif e answer ed a s she l ooked at her sel f in the mi r or. I sat down on one of t hose modern chair s wi th holes i n it and wai ted. We had been in t he hat shop for half an hour and m y wi fe was sti l i n fr ont of t he mi r or. 39。t buy things we don39。 I r emarked suddenly. I regr et ted sayi ng it alm ost at once. 39。t have sai d t hat ,39。 I need not r em ind you of t hat ter ri ble t ie you bought yest erday.39。 I f ind i t beauti ful ,39。A man can never have too i nto t he cave hoping t o f ind buri ed tr easure. The leader of t he par ty was exami ni ng the soil near the entr ance t o the cave when the machine showed that there was gol d under the gr ound. Ver y exci ted, t he par ty dug a hol e t wo f et deep. They fi nal ly f ound a smal gold coin which was almost wor thless. The part y t hen sear ched the whole cave thor oughly but di d not f ind anythi ng except an empt y t i n t r unk. In spit e of this, many peopl e are confi dent t hat 39。 may r eveal somet hing of val ue fai rl y soon. Leson56 Fast er than sound! 比聲音還快！ Once a year a r ace i s hel d f or ol d car s. A lot of car s entered f or thi s race last year and there was a gr eat deal of excitem ent just bef ore i t began. One of the most handsom e car s was a Rol ls Royce Sil ver Ghost. The most unusual car was a Benz which had only three wheels. Buil t i n 1885, i t was the oldest car taking par t. Af ter a great many loud explosions, t he race began. Many of the cars br oke down on the course and som e dri ver s spent more ti me under t hei r car s than i n them ! A f ew car s, however, pleted t he race. The winning car reached a speed of for ty miles an hourmuch fast er than any of it s ri val s. I t sped downhil at the end of t he r ace and its dr iver had a lot of tr oubl e tr ying t o stop i t. The r ace gave ever yone a gr eat deal of pl easur e. It was very di f erent fr om modern car r aces but no less excit ing. Lesson57 Can I help you, madam? 你要買什么，夫人？ A wom an i n bl ue j eans st ood at t he wi ndow of an expensi ve shop. Though she hesi t at ed f or a m om ent , she f i nal l y went i n and as ked t o see a dr ess t hat was i n t he wi ndow. The assi st ant who ser ved her di d not l i ke t he way she was dr essed. Gl anci ng at t hi ng about it , however, i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water , or even on a ploughed fi el d. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。t any in si ght : they had al run away! The man l aughed when he r eali zed what had happened. He cal led out to t he chi ldr en and threw the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Succes st ory 成功者的故事 Yester day af ternoon Fr ank Hawki ns was tel ling me about his experi ences as a young m an. Frank i s now t he head of a very l arge busines pany, but as a boy he used t o work in a smal l shop. It was his j ob to repai r bicycl es and at t hat t ime he used to work f ourt en hour s a day. He saved money f or year s and in 1938 he bought a smal wor kshop of hi s own. Duri ng the war Fr ank used to make spare par ts f or aer opl anes. At that ti me he had two hel per s. By the end of the war , the smal wor k shop had bee a l ar ge factor y whi ch empl oyed seven hundr ed and t wenty ei ght people. Fr ank smil ed when he remembered hi s har d earl y year s and t he l ong road to success. He was sti l smil ing when t he door opened and hi s wif e cam e in. She wanted hi m t o repair t hei r son39。 gave39。 car was badl y damaged and easy to r ecognize. Shor tl y aft erwar ds, the pol ice stopped t he car and both men were ar rested. Lesson36 Across the Channel 橫渡海峽 Er na Hart i s goi ng to swi m acr oss t he Engl ish Channel t om or r ow. She i s going t o set out fr om t he French coast at f ive o39。s father wi l set out wit h her in a smal l boat. Mr Hart has tr ai ned his daught er f or year s. Tomor row he wil l be watching her anxi ously as she swi