【正文】 pi ct ures are good or not. She cam e int o my r oom yesterday. 39。 she asked. 39。m hangi ng this pi ct ure on the wal ,39。I t39。 She l ooked at it cr it ical ly for a mom ent .39。s al r ight, 39。but i sn39。 I l ooked at it again. She was ri ght ! It was! Lesson27 A wet ni ght 雨夜 Lat e in the aft er noon, t he boys put up their t ent i n the m iddle of a f iel d. As soon as thi s was done, they cooked a meal over an open f ir e. They wer e al hungr y and the f ood sm el t good. Af ter a wonder f ul m eal , t hey told st ori es and sang songs by the camp fi re. But some t im e later i t began to ra in. The boys felt t ir ed so they pet out the f ir e and crept into their t ent . Thei r sl eping bags wer e warm and for table, so they al slept soundl y. In t he mi ddl e of the night , t wo boys woke up and began shout ing. The tent was ful l of wat er ! They al l leapt out of their sl eping bags and hur r ied outside. It was r ai ning heavi ly and t hey found that a str eam had for med in the f ield. The str eam wound it s way acr oss the f ield and t hen fl owed ri ght under t hei r tent! Lesson28 No parki ng 禁止停車 Jasper Whi te i s one of t hose r are people who bel ieves i n anci ent m yt hs. He has j ust bought a new house in t he cit y, but ever since he moved in, he has had t rouble wit h mot or ist s. when he r et urns home at night, he always f inds that som eone has par ked a car outsi de hi s gat e. Be cause of t his, he has not been able t o get hi s own car into his garage even once. Jasper has put up39。 signs out side his gate, but these have not had any ef ect . Now he has put an ugl y stone head over the gate. It i s one of t he ugliest faces I ha ve ever seen. I asked hi m what i t was and he t old m e that it was Medusa, t he Gor gon. Jasper hopes t hat she wi l tur n mot or ist s to stone. But none of them has been tur ned to stone yet! Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽車！ Capt ain Ben Fawcet has bought an unusual t axi and has begun a new ser vi ce. The 39。 is a sm al l Swiss aer opl ane cal led a 39。. Thi s wonderf ul pl ane can car y seven pasenger s. The m ost sur pri si ng t hi ng about it , however, i s that it can land anywher e: on snow, water, or even on a pl oughed fi el d. Capt ai n Fawcet t39。t any in si ght : they had al l run away! The man l aughed when he reali zed what had happened. He cal led out to t he chi ldr en and t hrew the bal back to t he bank. Lesson31 Succes story 成功者的故事 Yester day af ternoon Fr ank Hawki ns was tel ing m e about his experi ences as a young m an. Frank i s now t he head of a very l arge busi ness pany, but as a boy he used to work in a smal l shop. I t was his j ob to repai r bicycl es and at t hat t ime he used to work f ourt en hours a day. He saved money f or year s and in 1938 he bought a smal wor k shop of hi s own. Dur ing the war Frank used to m ake spare part s f or aeropl anes. At t hat t im e he had two helper s. By t he end of the war, t he sm al l work shop had be e a lar ge factor y which empl oyed seven hundred and t went yeight peopl e. Fr ank sm iled when he r emembered his har d ear ly year s and t he long r oad to success. He was st il l smi li ng when the door opened and his wi fe came in. She want ed him to repai r their son39。 gave39。 car was badl y dam aged and easy to r ecognize. Shor tl y aft er wards, the poli ce st opped t he car and both m en were ar rested. Lesson36 Across t he Channel 橫渡海峽 Erna Har t is goi ng to swi m across the Engl ish Channel tomor row. She i s goi ng to set out f r om t he Fr ench coast at f ive o39。s f ather wil l set out wit h her i n a smal boat. Mr Har t has tr ai ned hi s daughter f or year s. Tomor row he wi l be watching her anxi ousl y as she swi ms the l ong distance to Engl and. Erna i ntends to t ake short r est s ever y two hour s. She wi l have som et hing t o dri nk but she wi l not eat any sol id f ood. Most of Erna39。s m other, who swam the Channel he rself when she was a gir l. Leson37 The Ol ympic G ames 奧林匹克運動會 The Ol ympic Games wil l be hel d in our count r y in f our year s39。They wil l al so be bui lding new roads and a special rai lwayl ine. The Games wil l be hel d just outside t he capit al and t he whole area wi l be cal ed 39。. Workers wi l l have pleted t he new r oads by t he end of t hi s year . By t he end of next year, t hey wi l l have f inished work on the new stadium . The f ine moder n buil di ngs have been desi gned by Kur t Gunter . Everybody wi l be watchi ng anxiously as t he new buil di ngs go up. We are al l ver y exci ted and are l ooki ng for ward t o t he Olympi c Games because they have never been held bef or e i n thi s countr y. Lesson38 Everythi ng except the weat her 惟獨沒有考慮到天氣 My old fr iend, Har r ison, had li ved in t he Medit er anean f or m any years bef or e he r et urned to Engl and. He had of ten dr eamed of r et ir ing i n England and had planned t o setl e down i n the countr y. He had no sooner r etur ned t han he bought a fi ne house and went to l ive t her e. Al most im medi ately he began to pl ai n about t he weat her , for even though it was sti l summer, i t rained conti nual y and it was of ten bit ter ly cold. Af ter so many year s of sunshine, Har ri son got a shock. He acted as i f he had never lived i n Engla nd befor e. I n the end, it was mor e than he coul d bear . He had hardly had time to set le down when he sol d the house and l eft t he countr y. The dr eam he had had for so many year s ended t her e. Har r ison had thought of ever ything except t he weat her . Lesson39 Am I al right? 我是否痊愈？ Whil e John Gil ber t was in hospital , he asked his doct or to t el him whether his operati on had been successf ul, but t he doct or refused to do so. The f ol lowi ng day, t he pat ient asked for a bedsi de t el ephone. When he was al one, he t el ephoned the hospital exchange and ask