【正文】 ed. 39。m going to.. .39。Woul d you mi nd my ing with you ?39。 I l ied, 39。m going to the denti st .39。l e wit h you,39。 Ther e39。wai ting r oom ! 39。Just one more thing, Mr Eames. Let us suppose that a chi ld suddenly crosses t he r oad in f ront of you. As soon as I t ap on the window, I want the car to be stopped immediately.39。Mr Eames, 39。 you have just kil led that chi ld !39。s footst eps many year s l at er , Si r Malcolm39。s fi shing, or ei ght hours in a cinema seing the same f ilm over and over agai n, is usualy as far as they get. They have al l been put t o shame by a boy who, whil e pl aying tr uant, tr avel led 1600 mil es. He hit ch hi ked to Dover and, towar ds evening, went into a boat to f ind somewhere t o sl ep. When he woke up next mor ni ng, he discovered that the boat had, in t he meant ime, t ravel ed t o Cal ai s. No one not iced t he boy as he cr ept of f. Fr om there, he hitchhiked t o Pari s in a lorr y. The dr iver gave him a f ew bi scui ts and a cup of cof fee and left him j ust outside the ci ty. The next car t he boy st opped did not t ake him i nt o the centre of Par is as he hoped i t would, but t o Per pi gnan on t he FrenchSpanish bor der. Ther e he was pi cked up by a poli ceman and sent back t o England by the local authori ties. He has sur el y set up a r ecor d for the thousands of boys who dream of evading school. Lesson74 Out of t he limeli ght 舞臺之外 An ancient bus stopped by a dry r iver bed and a part y of f amous actors and act r esses got off . Dr essed in dark glases and old clothes, they had taken speci al precautions so that no one should r ecognize them. But as they soon discover ed, di sguises can someti mes be too perf ect. 39。 said Glori a Gleam. 39。t be bet er , Gl or ia,39。No newspaper men, no fi lm f ans! Why don39。 Meanwhil e, two other actors, Rockwal Sl inger and Merl in Gr eves, had cari ed t wo large food baskets to a shady spot under some trees. When t hey had al made themselves fort able, a str anger appear ed. He l ooked very angry. 39。 he shouted: 39。m sher if f here. Do you see that not ice ? It says No Camping in case you can39。 39。said Rockwal, 39。t be too hard on us. I39。 39。 said t he sheri f wit h a sneer. 39。m Br inksl ey Meer s, and my other name is Glori a Gleam. Now you get out of here f ast ! 39。 SOS39。To end our special news bull et in,39。 we ar e taki ng you to the macaroni f ields of Cal abri a. Macaroni has been gr own i n this ar ea f or over six hundred year s. Two of the leading grower s, Giuseppe Moldova and Ricar do Br abante, tel me that they have been expect ing a splendi d cr op t hi s year and harvesti ng has begun ear lier than usual. Here you can see t wo wor ker s who, between t hem, have j ust finished cutti ng t hr e car t loads of golden brown macaroni stalks. The whole vil age has been working day and night gather ing and threshi ng t hi s year 39。 Leson77 A sucessf ul operat ion 一例成功的手術(shù) The m ummy of an Egypti an woman who died in 800 . has just had an operation. The mummy is that of Shepenmut who was once asi nger i n the Temple of Thebes. As there wer e st range marks on t he X ray pl at es t aken of the mummy, doctors have been tr yi ng t o fi nd out whet her the woman died of a r ar e di sease. The only way to do this wa s t o operate. The operati on, whi ch lasted for over f our hours, proved t o be very dif ficult because of the hard r esin which cover ed t he skin. The doctors removed a section of t he mummy and sent it to a l aboratory. They also found somet hi ng which the Xr ay of the god Duamutef. This god which has the head of a cow was nor mal ly placed insi de a mummy. The doctors have not yet decided how the woman died. They f eared that he mummy woul d fal to pieces when t hey cut it open, but f or tunately t hi s has not happened. The mummy succesfull y survived t he oper at ion. Leson78 The l ast one? 最后一枝嗎？ Af ter eading an art icle ent itl ed 39。 I l it a ci garet e to calm my ner ves. I smoked wi th concentr at ion and pleasur e as I was sur e that t hi s would be my last ci gar et te. For a whole wek I di d not smoke at al and dur ing this ti me, my wi f e suf f er ed t er r i bl y. I had al l t he us ual sym pt om s of som eone gi vi ng up sm oki ng: a bad t em per and an enor m ous appet i t e. My f r i ends kept on of f er i ng m e ci gar et t es a nd ci gar s. They m ade no ef f or t t o hi de t hei r am usem ent whenever I pr oduced a packet of sweet s f r om m y pocket . Af t er seven day s of t hi s I went t o a par t y. Ever ybody ar ound m e was sm oki ng and I f el t ext r em el y un f or t abl e. When m y ol d f r i end Br i an ur ged m e t o accept a ci gar et t e, i t was m or e t han I coul d bear . I t ook one gui l t i l y, l i t i t and Geof f r ey l oves. He pr epar ed the speech carefull y and went to the wedding wit h Jenny. He had incl uded a l ar ge number of f unny st or ies in the speech and, of course, it was a gr eat success. As soon as he had f inished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffr ey was ali tl e di sappointed by t hi s but he did as hi s daughter asked. On t he way home, he asked Jenny if she had enjoyed the speech. To his sur pr ise, she said she hadn39。s hospit al . Dr essed up as Fat her Chr istmas and acpani ed by a 39。 of si x pr et ty girl s, he set of f down the mai n st reet of t he cit y riding a baby elephant cal ed Jumbo. He, shoul d have known t hat the poli ce would never al ow this sor t of thing. A policeman appr oached Ji mmy and told him he ought to have gone al ong a side st reet as Jumbo was holding up the tr af fic. Though Jimmy agr ed to go at once, Jumbo r ef used to move. Fi ft en poli cemen had to push ver y har d to get him off t he main street. The pol ice had a dif icul t time, but they were most amused. 39。 said a policeman aft er war ds, 39。t have t o car y hi m. Of cour se, we should ar